| What it does | Live wallpaper for Mac, drawn as it plays in any of 48 palettes, with widgets, folder icons and sound to match.
| Native macOS system monitor that shows every core, GPU, Neural Engine, disk, network interface, and process power draw
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| Pricing model | Freemium
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| Pricing | Free: 7 scenes and 11 palettes, 6 built-in vibes, clock/date/day widgets, 2 schedule rules, 8 folder icon patterns, 30 frames per second. MacScapes Pro: $9.99 launch price (24 of 25 left), then $19.99 once for up to 3 Macs. Includes all 42 scenes, 9 Living Stills, all 48 palettes, video backgrounds,
| Launch price $5 per Mac (one-time), regular price $49 per Mac after launch. Pricing by number of Macs: 1 Mac at $5, up to 100 Macs available at launch pricing. Each license seat covers one Mac and moves with you when switching devices.
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| Key features | - 42 GPU-rendered animated scenes in 6 categories plus 9 Living Stills
- 48 color palettes with palette creator and palette-from-photo
- 14 desktop widgets (clock, calendar, weather, moon, timer, focus timer, countdown, year, battery, world clock, season, note, system, day)
- Vibes bundle a scene, palette, widgets and ambient sound saved together
- Schedule changes by time of day, sunrise/sunset, or battery status
- 10 ambient sounds (rain, ocean, fire, night, forest, café, wind, stream, brown noise, pink noise)
- 70 folder icon patterns plus patterns cut from any scene
- Lock screen synchronization with current scene
- Photo and video backgrounds with motion options
| - Individual CPU core monitoring with live charts over 1, 5, or 30 minutes
- Process tree with app icons, CPU, memory, threads, disk, power and wakeup columns
- Installed apps list with version, source, last use, and disk size
- Startup items monitoring showing system extensions and kernel drivers
- Quick search across processes, apps, and disks with keyboard shortcut
- Monitoring profiles from Power saving to Diagnostic with global keyboard shortcut
- Support for four languages and light/dark themes with accent color customization
- Licensed per Mac with seat-based activation and moving between devices
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| What makes it different | - Drawn live on GPU rather than playing video loops, so scenes recolor instantly and the whole app is only 26 MB with all scenes included
- Everything on your desktop—wallpaper, widgets, folder icons and sound—matched and saved together as vibes
- Optimized for battery life with automatic frame rate and resolution reduction when unplugged
- No account, no tracking, no ads, with anonymous usage counts you can turn off
- Runs in Apple's App Sandbox with minimal system permissions
| - Native Swift and AppKit built for macOS, not using Electron
- Minimal system overhead with sampling only while visible, uses fraction of one core
- Privacy-focused with all monitoring data staying local on your Mac
- One-time purchase with all features and updates included for life
- Safe updates with daily checks and signature verification before installation
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| Community votes | 1 | 0 |
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| DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs) | 11 ▲ +1 (up) since last check | 3 ▲ +1 (up) since last check |
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| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 0 | 2 |
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MacScapes
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