Luviosa

Luviosa is a macOS live wallpaper app I built to make the desktop feel more cinematic, personal, and alive.

What Luviosa does:

Luviosa lets you browse curated live wallpapers and apply them directly to your macOS desktop. The app includes a fullscreen, media-forward interface for discovering wallpapers, plus support for importing your own videos, GIFs, and images.

The goal is simple: make live wallpapers feel native to macOS, fast enough to keep running, and polished enough to enjoy every day.

Features:

• Curated live wallpaper library with category rows for Anime, Nature, Cyberpunk, Fantasy, Space, Automotive, Ocean, and more.
• User imports for videos, GIFs, and images.
• Multi-display selection with persistent display preferences.
• Menu bar app mode with no Dock icon.
• Persistent playback preferences for pause behavior, volume, and active wallpaper assignments.
• Favorites tab for saved wallpapers.
• Search across wallpaper titles, subtitles, and tags.
• Full-window animated app backdrop based on the selected wallpaper.
• Wallpaper preview, favorite, and apply controls.
• Native macOS settings panel for displays, playback, and library management.
• Lightweight AVFoundation playback using desktop-level wallpaper windows.