Every Walyro update, version by version — what is new, what got faster, and what it means for your desktop.
Leave Scenes on all day: they now ask far less of your Mac, and if you have asked your Mac to reduce motion, they rest as a still picture.
Open Scenes and pick Your Photo, or drop a picture onto All Videos. The photo leans toward your pointer, the near parts more than the far ones, and keeps a slow drift while the pointer rests.
Open Scenes in the sidebar and Walyro draws a wallpaper on your Mac: an aurora, a starfield, a slow gradient, soft lights. Pick a palette, choose how much it moves, and it plays without a video file.
Open the window and Walyro suggests one thing to try next: a video of your own, or a playlist that rotates. Skip what you don't want.
Your first run now begins with the wallpaper. Choose a wallpaper or bring your own video, and it plays across every display the moment you click.
Hover a card and set that video as your wallpaper without opening anything else. The grid now marks what is playing, and the menu bar can switch wallpapers rather than only pause them.
This release is about performance. Copying, thumbnails, and display changes now run in the background, so you can import a video of any size and keep browsing your library while it copies.
Add Videos now sits at the end of your library and in every playlist, so the next video you want on your desktop is always in reach.
The menu bar icon is now Walyro's own mark, and the playback controls behind it open even while another app is full screen.
Your wallpaper pauses when the Mac is locked or the displays sleep, then picks up where it left off. It also holds its place when your display setup changes.
The setup screens now say plainly when your first wallpaper is live, and what to do next.
Setting up your first live wallpaper takes fewer detours, with quiet polish throughout the rest of the app.
A new menu bar panel shows what's playing on each display, so you can pause, resume, skip, or switch off any screen without opening the app.
Your wallpaper now follows you into full-screen apps, Mission Control, and the Lock Screen. When you quit Walyro, your own wallpaper quietly returns.
Wallpapers now stay in sync across every display, and unplugging or reconnecting a monitor brings the right wallpaper straight back.
Polish based on the first round of user feedback: a cleaner library, a smoother first launch, and a quicker way to find more videos.
A small maintenance update with under-the-hood refinements and quicker ways to rate Walyro and find more wallpaper videos.
The first public release. Turn your own videos into live wallpapers, with everything staying local to your Mac.
macOS 14.0+
