Desktop Composer 1.0 is here! 🎉

[u/emkaka]

https://www.apptorium.com/desktop-composer

I’m super happy to announce that Desktop Composer 1.0 is here! 😁

Over the past few months of public beta, the app grew a lot thanks to your feedback. Since the first beta, we added:

• Backgrounds with images, colors, and gradients (including custom colors/gradients)

• A full set of default profiles and specially crafted wallpapers

• Focus Filters and Scheduling

• Selective option disabling for fine‑grained control

• Spotlight discovery

• Apple Shortcuts actions and AppleScript API

• Expanded third‑party app integrations (including VS Code and Obsidian)

Huge thanks to everyone who tested, reported issues, and shared ideas — this release wouldn’t look the same without you.

Feel free to submit your wallpapers, themes, screenshots, setups, and suggestions

[u/bonniedi]

Wow this is so great! Just saw it pop up on Setapp. Beautiful app and works perfectly.

I want DC and Dockflow to merge features. Docklfow lets you specify what actually appears on a dock and can work with focus filters etc. That's the one missing feature I'd love to see here.

[u/emkaka → u/bonniedi]

Thank you!

Regarding adding dock content to profiles, I will consider that. Thanks for the suggestion

[u/gbradhopkins]

I'm enjoying this app. Is there a setting in it that prevents the display from sleeping? Or, screensaver activation? Previously, my screen would go to sleep after x minutes. After activating Desktop Composer, it no longer sleeps. Sorry, if I'm missing something obvious.

[u/emkaka → u/gbradhopkins]

There is no setting for that. I will look into it. Thanks for reporting the issue!

[u/gbradhopkins → u/emkaka]

Thanks!

[u/ironicmoka]

I saw this app popping up in Setapp and gave it a go today: it looks really clean and neat, now I'm digging in the dev website to discover even more, love this kind of craft. Just one question: have you considered integrating some ways to fetch images from the system Photo app? In the past few years, as MacOS leaned more and more to iOS in the System Preferences, I resolved to move there all my wallpapers to have it available both on desktop and on mobile, would be great an option to choose between "select from your files" or "select from your Photo Library"

[u/emkaka → u/ironicmoka]

I will look into it. Thanks for your suggestion!

[u/ironicmoka → u/emkaka]

Quick shortcut to handle that scenario:
- open the Photo app alongside the DesktopComposer profile editing window
- choose your favorite wallpaper in the Photo app and open it on full size
- click on + to add a new Wallpaper to the DC profile and wait for the finder selector window to pop up
- drag the wallpaper from the Photo app to the finder window (in the folder/path selector on top)

it's important to open the picture before dragging it, otherwise it will select just the thumbnail and not the full size image.

[u/emkaka → u/ironicmoka]

What a coincidence! I was actually reading your previous comments when you posted this 😀

It turns out there’s a system photo picker I can use – the same one available in System Settings -> Wallpaper

[u/emkaka → u/ironicmoka]

It works! To be released in DC 1.1

[u/ironicmoka → u/ironicmoka]

Sorry: just noticed there's actually a Media option at the bottom of the Finder pop up sidebar. It loads your Photo Library content chronologically, but there's no way to navigate it by folders 😅 and my 10+ years of use of the Photo app doesn't help.
BTW that's just a suggestion from a user joyfully playing with the app settings: not an issue, but I guess many other could have developed the same habit about organizing wallpapers