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Unsplash Wallpapers for Mac (Official) — Curated, HD desktop background photos from Unsplash.
Unsplash Wallpapers for Mac is a simple, free app designed to bring curated, HD photos to your desktop background while celebrating the photographers who provide freely usable photography on Unsplash.
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@mikaelcho Thank you so much for doing this. The macOS wallpaper market was shockingly underservered and very happy that you guys are trying to build value there. Wish you the best.
@mikaelcho Hey Mikael! This looks really good. I will give it a try for sure. :)
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Needs:
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• Interval selection time, like every 30 minutes.
• Categories selection (e.g. Space, Cars, Architecture, etc.).
• Hand picked collections of your favourites, etc.
• Multi display support.
Wants:
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• It would be really cool to span across multiple monitors as well in various setups.
@joshuapinter Noted. Most of these requests are in our to-do. Thanks for trying it out!
Hey Unsplash,
I am severely underwhelmed by this application. If this were a beta version, I'd say you're on the right track to eventually building a good app. However, as it stands Unsplash Wallpapers is so thinly featured that I don't find it usable, which is unfortunate because I really don't like Irvue.
Anyways, here is a list of the missing features which make this application unusable:
- Multi-monitor support
- Auto-updating images at a customizable interval
- Ability to use images from a specific collection
- Ability to use images from different collections on different monitors
- Ability to quickly like a photo
- Ability to add specific photos or photographers to a blacklist
- Ability to quickly switch between which Unsplash collection is being displayed on a monitor
- Overall brightness of wallpaper automatically changes Mac menu bar between light and dark themes
I look forward to seeing many more features included in version 2.0.
Love Unsplash, love the idea, wish it didn't update the wallpaper for all my Mac Desktops / spaces to the same thing.
@rcolinkennedy ah damn yeah — looking into this. Can't promise there's anything we can do, but will definitely see whats possible given the public APIs
@lukechesser Nice. I know a lot of us out there have a "work space" and a "personal space" for instance and putting different wallpapers on these makes for easy quick differentiation.
@rcolinkennedy @lukechesser This feature was in one of the first versions of Irvue, before it went to Mac App Store. It requires some tricks with AppleScript and continuous reading "com.apple.spaces". However, if your app is distributed through the Mac App Store, you don't have access to "com.apple.spaces" and you can't perform AppleScript easily.
ProductHunt keeps surprising! I was looking for such website this morning, and voila, it's in the top of PH. Thank you for a great source of wallpapers ❤️
I love Unsplash! and I'm really excited to have an official Mac client finally :-)
I'm trying to figure out where do the images get saved? What's the default folder? 🤔
@tomaswilliamsa Good suggestion Tomas! We've played around with the idea but wanted to hear the initial feedback first before implementing a shorter refresh rate.
I directly replaced Wallcat with it. Good minimalistic UI and big selection of Wallpaper.
Will there be a feature to select the displays, so im able to choose wich wallpaper i want to use for different displays?
@dubstrike @pnkxx great suggestion. multi display support is something we'd love to do, but from my understanding currently, there may be some complications with doing it well and having it supported on the Mac App Store. We'll need to do some research on it but we have it noted in our future features :)
I have 3 monitors, and 6 spaces in each. It will be great to get a wallpaper in each space.
Pros:Amazing photos, simple to use.
Cons:It needs Multi Display and Spaces support.
Wait, you still use spaces somehow? Or is this the watered-down version of "Desktops" in the latest macOSes?
Also, there could more more options like a keyword search.
Pros:Simplistic app that's easy to use.
Cons:I had a different background for 5 Spaces and it set the same image to every Space. I'd prefer it just set the image to the active Space.
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