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Lucid for Mac

Live 4K wallpapers of space, nature and ocean loops on every display, plus Apple Aerials.

By jedbrnth-eng. Free and open source, GPL-3.0 licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

Lucid at a glance

Version
1.3.0
Released
26 October 2026
Download size
2.7 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
GPL-3.0
Category
Graphics and Design
Developer
jedbrnth-eng
GitHub stars
14

About Lucid

Free live 4K wallpapers for Mac: about 590 space and nature loops plus Apple Aerials. Native SwiftUI, no account, no tracking.

Screenshots

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How to install Lucid on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for Lucid and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 1.3.0 from jedbrnth-eng's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to Lucid show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: Lucid.zip (2.7 MB).

What is new in Lucid 1.3.0

## Changes in this version

### Added
- **Home page** (opens first): a big featured wallpaper that plays, then rows you scroll sideways, Netflix-style: Recently used, Most used, Featured, Favorites, New in your library, and one row per category (Space, Nature & Landscapes, Ocean & Beaches, Sky & Time-lapse, Cities, Apple Aerials, My Files), each with "See all". A fresh install shows Featured and the categories; rows with nothing in them stay hidden. Rows and cards work with the keyboard (Tab, Return/Space to open, arrow buttons to page) and VoiceOver (each card reads its title, type and whether it's on this Mac, with Apply and Favorite actions).
- **Live previews.** Hover (or focus) a card and its clip plays, muted and looping, so you see it as it will look; the Home hero and the detail sheet play on their own. Only clips already on your Mac preview (nothing is downloaded for a preview). Lucid makes a small, short, silent copy once (640×360 for cards, 1280×720 for the hero and detail, the first 8–12 seconds) and caches it in `Previews/` (at most 160 files and 300 MB), plays at most 3 at a time, and stops them all when the window is hidden or in the background, Reduce Motion is on, or the wallpaper is smart-paused.
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