Phosphene
Free video wallpapers for your Mac desktop and lock screen
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Details
- External ID
- 1271105
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Phosphene
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3252795148758764
- Tags
- Mac
- Fetched at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 6, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
I reverse engineered Apple's private WallpaperExtensionKit so any video can be your desktop and lock screen wallpaper. Free, open source, MIT.
Enrichment
- Niche
- screen recording and demo tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- animated wallpaper utility for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No It relies directly on reverse-engineering private Apple frameworks (WallpaperExtensionKit) and undocumented macOS internals, which cannot be synthesized by an LLM assistant.
What it would actually take: Requires deep reverse engineering of private macOS system frameworks using tools like IDA Pro, Hopper, or Ghidra, inspecting private Objective-C/Swift runtimes, and bypassing system integrity checks or private entitlement barriers to run video wallpapers on both desktop and lock screen in Swift/Objective-C.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 365 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #183 of 366 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
- I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers · hn · 2026-05-20 · 428 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Wallpapers HD: Exotic 4K · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Prequel · ph · 2026-08-30 · 213 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Asight · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Pixel Soup · ph · 2026-10-04 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Bezel · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- QuietGlass · ph · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Matrix Desktop · ph · 2026-09-08 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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