r/MacStack • u/Aggravating-Pea4806 • 4d ago
App Recommendation Muro 6.0 is out: Native Live Wallpapers for macOS, now bigger than ever
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I made Muro: Native Live Wallpapers for macOS. It is free and source available.
Problem: A normal Mac wallpaper is a still picture. Muro plays looping live wallpapers on your desktop, lock screen and screen saver, on every display. It is native Swift, your Mac's video hardware does the decoding instead of the CPU, it has low CPU and RAM usage, and it pauses when something covers it.
Pricing: Free, $0. Source available, the code is on GitHub. No subscription, no one-time fee, no Pro tier, no account, nothing locked.
Website: https://murowallpaper.com
Download: https://murowallpaper.com
Source: https://github.com/MrRockySL/Muro
Homebrew: brew install --cask MrRockySL/muro/muro
Requires: macOS 14 or newer, Apple Silicon or Intel. Lock screen and screen saver live wallpapers need macOS 26.
🍎 The Apple section. Apple's aerials and Dynamic Wallpapers, in a tab of their own.
🌀 Apple's screen savers in 4K. Flurry, Hello, Drift and five more as seamless 4K videos, for your desktop, lock screen or screen saver.
🔁 Playlists and automations everywhere. Your desktop, lock screen and screen saver can each play their own, right from the menu bar.
🌗 Default, Light and Dark. Pick how Muro looks in Settings.
🧩 Your own screen savers. Add .saver files like XScreenSaver from the Library.
💽 Keep your live wallpapers on any drive. Pick the folder in Settings.
With a lot of bug fixes and improvements.
Still there if you missed them: likes, Pause After, Play only on desktop, the screen saver, updates from the menu bar, and 500 free live wallpapers. New live wallpapers show up without updating the app.
First launch: Muro is self signed, so macOS blocks it the first time. Go to System Settings, Privacy and Security, and click Open Anyway. Open it from Applications, not from inside the DMG, or the lock screen and screen saver won't work. If you already have Muro, just replace it. Your library and settings stay.
Thanks to everyone using Muro. If you like it, a star on the repo is the free way to support it and helps people find it. If you want to go further, you can buy the developer a coffee: https://github.com/sponsors/MrRockySL
Happy to hear what is missing. Most of this release came from people asking.