For macOS 26

Reimagine your photos

Coming soon View on GitHub

Bring life to your photos

Turn your photos into a digital kaleidoscope wallpaper

A pink dahlia
A red and yellow grevillea flower
Orange autumn trees against a blue sky
A blue macOS wallpaper of curving folded shapes
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And macOS's aerial films

The slow-motion aerials behind macOS's own screen savers play too, as moving kaleidoscopes

Kaleido playing the sea floor aerial The sea floor aerial itself
Kaleido playing the aurora from orbit aerial The aurora from orbit aerial itself
Kaleido playing the kelp forest aerial The kelp forest aerial itself
Kaleido playing the lake at dusk aerial A still lake at dusk with boulders and a pink sky
Kaleido playing the breaking wave aerial A wave breaking, seen from underwater
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Features

Liven your desktop

Press Play and the kaleidoscope fills your desktop, slowly turning behind your icons and windows. Press Stop and your usual wallpaper is back

A Mac desktop with a flower kaleidoscope as its wallpaper, behind the menu bar and Dock

A new toy to play with

Flip through scenes, click and drag, flick and watch it glide

Design your pattern

Have fun playing with the pattern editor. Many knobs and dials to tune. Or keep things random :)

Kaleido's pattern editor beside a kaleidoscope with red guide lines showing the mirrors

Pick what plays

Browse and choose your photos, built-in sets and smart albums to play

The Photos browser listing built-in sets, smart albums and albums with selection badges

Keep the ones you love

Bookmark a scene to save the photo with its pattern. Star your favorites, then play your scenes as a playlist

The Scenes list with thumbnails, stars and Play my scenes

Coming soon

Requires macOS 26 or later. Source code is MIT licensed.