Phosphene: An open-source video wallpaper engine for macOS Tahoe
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Summary
Phosphene is an open-source macOS menu bar app and wallpaper extension that allows users to play their own video files as desktop and lock-screen wallpapers on macOS Tahoe. It integrates with the system's native wallpaper picker using Apple's private WallpaperExtensionKit framework, the same one Apple's own Aerials use. This enables out-of-process playback that survives app quits and integrates with OS-level lock-screen, idle, and sleep lifecycle events.
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Phosphene is a menu bar app + wallpaper extension that plays your own video files as the macOS desktop and lock-screen wallpaper.
It plugs into the system's native wallpaper picker, so videos appear alongside Apple's built-in Aerials in System Settings → Wallpaper.
It is built on top of Apple's private WallpaperExtensionKit framework — the same one Apple's own Aerials use — which means playback runs out-of-process, survives app quits, and integrates with the OS-level lock-screen / idle / sleep lifecycle.
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