Driftwall
Free, open-source live video wallpaper for your Mac
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Pick anymp4 ormov and Driftwall loops it seamlessly behind your desktop icons, on every display. Per-display videos, playlists with rotation, dim and speed controls. Pauses on battery or when a fullscreen app is up. Menu bar only. MIT licensed.
PH · launched Nov 8, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: live wallpaper applications · 91 launches, 11 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- GitHub
- Menu Bar Apps
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More like this: all 91 launches in live wallpaper applications →
Could you build this?
Yes A macOS menu-bar app that loops a video behind desktop icons, with per-display settings and power-aware pausing, is a well-documented AppKit/AVFoundation project that an AI assistant can help build.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #303 of 619 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
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