Live wallpapers for your Mac that move when you do. Everything is rendered as you watch, so there’s no video loop to notice.
Move your cursor · Click for a ripple
Drift, one of the wallpapers, running in your browser. Ported from the app’s own Metal shader.
The wallpapers
Simulated, not filmed.
Most live wallpapers are videos on repeat. Lumarium’s are small simulations: fish that choose their own way, a flock that never repeats, light bent by gravity, sand moved by wind. You can reach in and disturb them. These clips are recorded from the app itself.
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Koi Pond Jade
Koi glide over a dark pond bed among lily pads. Each fish chooses its own way, so the pond is never the same twice.
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Murmuration Storm Front
A flock of starlings, simulated bird by bird, turning over wet grass as the weather comes in.
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Black Hole Celestial
Light bent round a black hole along its real paths. One slider takes it from the physics to the warm look from the movies.
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Bioluminescent Tide Bloom
Night surf on a dark beach. Wherever the water is disturbed, it lights up blue.
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Dunes Namib
Wind-blown sand, seen from above. Drag your cursor through it and it leaves a trail.
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Drift Monochrome
Layers of stars over a faint haze, shifting as you move. The one at the top of this page is running live.
It reacts
Every scene answers your cursor. Stars shift in layers, sand takes a trail, water ripples. Drag a window across some of them and they stir. Your desktop icons stay put, and still clickable.
It’s a Mac app
Written in Swift and Metal for Apple silicon Macs. Every scene has its own sliders, each display can run its own scene, and a greeting you design can welcome you back when you return.
It’s yours
$12 once, at launch. No subscription. Use it as a guest, or make a free account to keep your tuning and greeting layouts with you.
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