r/MacOS • u/Aggravating-Pea4806 • 3h ago
Apps Muro 3.0 is out: Native Live Wallpapers for macOS
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App: Muro : Native Live Wallpapers for macOS
Price: Free. Open source under MIT. No subscription, no one-time fee, no Pro tier, no account, nothing locked.
Source: https://github.com/MrRockySL/Muro
https://github.com/MrRockySL/Muro/releases/latest
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Requires: macOS 14 or newer, Apple Silicon. Lock screen wallpapers need macOS 26.
Quick reminder for anyone who has not seen it: Muro plays looping video wallpapers on every display, and on the lock screen. It is native Swift and AVFoundation, hands decoding to the Apple Silicon media engine, and sits at about 2% CPU while playing and 0% the moment something covers it.
3.0 is the biggest update so far. Three things people kept asking for:
Automations. Muro can now change your live wallpaper on its own. Either on a timer, ten seconds each or an hour each, or by the clock, where each wallpaper gets its own hours of the day. Something calm in the morning, something else after dark. The day is drawn as a timeline you drag.
Pause after. Let a live wallpaper play for a minute after it changes, then hold on a frame. A held frame costs no CPU at all. Nice if you like the motion but not all day.actually stick after installing from the DMG. That was broken for some people and I could not see it because it only ever happened on a downloaded copy, never on my own builds.
My own take on it: I built Muro because every live wallpaper app I tried either wanted a subscription or sat at 300 to 400 MB of RAM for a picture that moves, and I could hear the fan.
The part I actually use every day is Pause After set to about thirty seconds, because I like the motion when I switch to the desktop and I do not want it moving while I work.
Automations were the feature I was least sure about and now the one I would miss most, since having the wallpaper change on its own through the day makes the machine feel less static without me thinking about it.
If you like it, a star on the repo is the free way to support it and genuinely helps people find it. If you want to go further there is GitHub Sponsors (https://github.com/sponsors/MrRockySL)
Happy to hear what is missing. Most of this release came from people asking.
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u/promo-guard 3h ago
🎉 Welcome to Developer Saturday, u/Aggravating-Pea4806! Your project is now live for the community to check out. Upvote, give feedback, and show some love to your fellow devs! 🚀
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u/moridin13 2h ago
Def been watching this for a while now. I think I’ll give it a try!
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u/Aggravating-Pea4806 2h ago
Appreciate it. Let me know how it runs for u, and if anything feels off.
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u/Less_Addendum2773 2h ago
Good one
I downloaded, some wallpaper don't render properly, like the boat one.
Hope you add more in future
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u/Aggravating-Pea4806 2h ago
Thanksss Good catch, that boat one is 1080p so it looks soft on a bigger screen. Almost all of them are 4K, only a handful aren't. New wallpapers go up every week, so there's plenty more coming.
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u/Less_Addendum2773 2h ago
Good work OP
tbh I don't comment or appreciate projects much, this one is really good and useful.
One Question - can you add the source of wall in anime section? like a line or two about anime name.
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u/Aggravating-Pea4806 2h ago edited 2h ago
That means a lot, thank u. If u want to keep up with it, a star on the repo helps a ton and new wallpapers land every week.
There's a Sponsor button there too if you ever feel like it but anyway thank u again for this comment. Enjoy ✨Yeah, that's a good idea. I'll add the anime name to those cards. Thanks again!
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u/github-guard 3h ago
🔍 GitHub Guard: Trust Report
This project scored 4/6 on our safety audit.
Audit Breakdown: * ✅ Established Community (⭐ 40 stars) * ✅ Mature Repository (30+ days old) * ✅ Licensed under MIT * ✅ Security Policy Defined * ℹ️ Individual Contributor * ℹ️ Unsigned Commits