Native to the Mac.
Dioramac lives in your menu bar and uses Apple’s Metal graphics to draw each scene. The app is native macOS, with no web views or web frameworks.
Live wallpaper
for Mac.
Waves roll in, wildlife wanders, and tiny worlds come to life around the icons on your desktop.
Explore the scenesFind your favorite place.
Pick a scene and see what wanders by.
Beach
Sailboats drift over reefs, gulls circle overhead, and waves wash around sandy islands.
Forest
Foxes and rabbits cross grassy clearings while songbirds skim the treetops.
Kingdom
Knights ride past castles, and a shepherd leads sheep through the countryside.
Zen Garden
Koi glide through ponds beneath the cherry blossoms while herons patrol the banks.
When the sun goes down.
Lanterns glow in Zen Garden and dusk settles over Kingdom. Both scenes switch between day and night using your Mac’s local time.
Automatic day and night is available with a paid scene purchase.
Your desktop shapes the scene.
Move a folder and the scenery makes room. A shoreline curves around it, a gap opens in the forest, or a gravel bed appears beside a pond.
See how desktop icons work
Easy on resources.
When a full-screen or maximized app covers the desktop, Dioramac stops drawing to save resources. It also pauses when your display sleeps or your Mac locks.
Your files stay private.
Icon positions stay on your Mac. Dioramac never reads desktop item names or file contents and never sends them to a server.
How Dioramac handles privacyBeach in a quick test
App CPU (one core)
- Visible
- ~2%
- Covered
- <0.1%
App memory
- Visible
- ~256 MiB
- Covered
- ~251 MiB
Coming to Mac.
For Apple silicon Macs running macOS 15 or later. The public download will be posted here at launch.