This Free App Turns Any Website Into Your Mac’s Wallpaper
Have you ever wished your Mac wallpaper was a little more… animated? Plash is a free app that lets you turn any website into your desktop wallpaper, and you can even interact with it.
There is an easy way to turn any YouTube video into wallpaper on Windows – this is the Mac version of this trick and you can use any website. There are several practical and boring reasons why you might do this. For example, maybe you’re underwhelmed by the desktop widgets in macOS Sonoma and would rather turn your desktop into a giant Google Calendar. However, let’s be honest: the fun reason is that you can set something awesome and awesome as your wallpaper.
How to turn any URL into an animated wallpaper on Mac
Start by downloading Plash from the Mac App Store or Github . The app is in the menu bar – click the icon to customize it.
I recommend clicking “Add Website” and adding a few URLs. Of course, you can add literally any website, but it’s too complicated. Luckily, there’s a topic on Github full of great use cases . Here are some highlights:
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Webcam from a random window so you can pretend you’re somewhere else.
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Global wind patterns so you can view the planet from above.
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Bing’s Photo of the Day : You can view a random photo every day without using Bing.
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Random Street View : You can see random places all day long.
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The notorious flying toasters , allowing you to relive the 80s.
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Classic art combined with quotes to make you feel smart and all.
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Matrix drop code to pretend you’re in a dorm room circa 2003.
These are just a few of your options—there are literally tons of others on the Internet. Whatever you decide to use, know that you can enable view mode from the menu bar if you really need to interact with the website you’ve turned into wallpaper.
You can also optionally set custom CSS for any website, allowing you to do things like make the website background transparent so you can see your desktop. This thread I mentioned earlier has some examples of how to set up your settings, including code and instructions for Google Calendar. This is the type of app you can spend a lot of time with, so enjoy it.