Atheria: Live Wallpaper

Your desktop comes alive. And it knows when to disappear.

Atheria turns your Mac into living art: 85 real-time wallpapers, fractal flames you shape yourself, and your own videos, drifting behind everything you do. Every living wallpaper is generated on your GPU with Metal, never a looping clip, never the same frame twice. There are more possible flames than atoms in the observable universe.

When a window covers the desktop, rendering stops at 0 fps, so it never costs you battery or fan noise when you cannot see it. On low battery or in Low Power Mode, it pauses on its own.

Free to download, with no account and nothing to sign up for.

ATHERIA FREE
- The Aurora and Peach Web living wallpapers, on all your displays
- Your own videos as wallpapers
- A live preview of every Pro wallpaper on your desktop before you buy
- The Flame Creator: shape a flame and watch it live on your desktop
- The Advanced Flame Editor: every transform, 409 variations, color gradients
- Open and export .flame files from Apophysis, JWildfire and flam3
- Rendered stills and clips of your flames, share cards and flame codes
- Daily Colors: new colors for your wallpaper every day
- Lock screen sync: a high quality still of your wallpaper on the lock screen and every desktop
- Automatic pause when windows cover the desktop, and Quiet While You Work around the apps you choose
- Privacy Guard: a frosted veil over your screen when you step away, or on demand with Command + Option + /
- Hide the shaders you never use
- Siri and Shortcuts

ATHERIA PRO
Upgrade once to unlock:
- All 85 living wallpapers
- Keeping the flames you make: Save, Keep Archetype and Breed
- Flame Journey: your desktop travels from flame to flame, morphing between them
- The Shader Creator and the Loop Creator
- Presence-aware effects that respond to your cursor and how actively you are working
- Smart Triggers: switch wallpapers by time of day or power source
- Playlists without limits
- A different wallpaper on each display
- 60 fps rendering
- Stills and clips without the Atheria mark
- Every feature still to come

One purchase, no subscription, ever.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Everything runs on your Mac. No data collected, no analytics, no microphone, no screen recording.

Made for macOS. Tuned for Apple Silicon. Designed to feel like it belongs.