Claude-Reverser/Ambient
Native live wallpapers and movable desktop widgets for macOS. Swift, AppKit, Metal and WebKit.
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Ambient Live wallpapers and movable desktop widgets for macOS. Ambient is a native SwiftUI/AppKit app for macOS 14+ on Apple silicon. It plays videos at their original quality by default, stays in the menu bar, and adds small desktop widgets you can arrange yourself. Early preview: compatibility and performance are still evolving. Public builds are ad-hoc signed, not Apple Developer ID signed or notarized. MIT covers original Ambient code; the water-flow port has unresolved third-party provenance. Download an Apple-silicon DMG from Releases. Open it, launch Animated Setup, and choose an installation folder. The setup will not overwrite an existing Ambient installation. Because preview downloads are not notarized, macOS may block them. If you choose to run a build you trust, use macOS's per-app System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway flow. Do not disable Gatekeeper globally. You can also build from source below. In Ambient, choose All wallpapers…
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What this repository does
Native live wallpapers and movable desktop widgets for macOS. Swift, AppKit, Metal and WebKit.
Repository facts
- Owner
- Claude-Reverser
- Primary language
- Swift
- Stars
- 233
- Forks
- 8
- Open issues + pull requests
- 0
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-09-13T00:04:34.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-13T00:07:48.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: desktop-widgets, macos, swift, swiftui, wallpaper
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