Published by Alex Lopez on 2024-02-19
What is Backgrounds?
Backgrounds is a desktop background utility app designed for Mac users who want to make their computer screens more attractive, stylish, and dynamic. It offers 7 themes, including Music, Parallax, Video, Quartz, System, Clock, and Web, and includes a Notification Center Today Widget and 2 Screen Savers. The app allows users to hide their desktop icons easily and enjoy their wallpaper.
1. See the artwork of the current track you are hearing as a wallpaper, or a video you have added to Backgrounds that matches the song’s title, artist, album or comments.
2. Make your wallpaper more interesting and useful with 7 themes: Music, Parallax, Video, Quartz, System, Clock and Web.
3. - A subscription to access a curated collection of videos to use as your wallpaper.
4. Play video as your desktop wallpaper.
5. Backgrounds Video Library HD is available as an optional subscription.
6. "Backgrounds is, as the name implies, a Desktop background utility that truly, madly, deeply thinks different.
7. Run Quartz Compositions as a wallpaper.
8. Hide your Desktop icons easily and enjoy your wallpaper.
9. "It is designed for Mac users who want to make the backgrounds of their computer screens more attractive, stylish, and dynamic.
10. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
11. Load a webpage as your wallpaper.
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Or follow the guide below to use on PC:
Select Windows version:
Install Backgrounds app on your Windows in 4 steps below:
Download a Compatible APK for PC
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For Windows 11, check if there's a native Backgrounds Windows app here » ». If none, follow the steps below:
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Download on Android: Download Android
- 7 themes: Music, Parallax, Video, Quartz, System, Clock, and Web
- Notification Center Today Widget
- 2 Screen Savers: Glass and Quartz X
- Hide desktop icons
- Music theme: see the artwork of the current track you are hearing as a wallpaper, or a video you have added to Backgrounds that matches the song’s title, artist, album or comments. Compatible with iTunes, Spotify, and Swinsian
- Parallax theme: give depth to your desktop by moving the cursor. Take advantage of your panoramas and create immersive wallpapers. Supports Photos Albums
- Video theme: play video as your desktop wallpaper. Supports Photos Albums and a subscription to access a curated collection of videos to use as your wallpaper
- Quartz theme: run Quartz Compositions as a wallpaper. Access to iTunes, Spotify, and Swinsian current track info
- System theme: monitor your Mac’s CPU and Network usage. Get a glance of your system’s stats from Notification Center with the today widget
- Clock theme: know the time or date right from your Desktop
- Web theme: load a webpage as your wallpaper. Includes 3D Parallax
- Supports Multiple Monitors with different preferences each
- Combine themes: activate the System and Clock widgets so they are always on top, even when you are using other themes
- Set an idle theme so when your Mac is idle it automatically activates a theme even in full screen so you can watch a video, see your music artwork, the system stats, and more.
- Plays live videos in the background
- Affordable price of $1
- Offers more features than anticipated
- Allows for creating a playlist of videos
- Confusing preferences setup
- Needs some cleaning up
- Lacks example videos
- No speed options for video playback
- Playlist feature is not working properly
Love the App
Fantasic when used with Aerial Screensavers
It keeps playing one video
Need speed control for video wallpaper
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