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Your desktop, painted by the real sky.

Sky Wallpaper reads the weather where you are and paints your Mac desktop to match: clear blue, drifting cloud, rain, snow, fog, storms, golden hour and the quiet blue after sunset. The sun and moon sit where they really are, over photographic landscapes that change with the hour.

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Coast · City · Mountains · Forest · Snow

macOS 14 Sonoma+Lives in your menu bar

One-time purchaseNo subscription

No trackingNo account, analytics or ads

Apple WeatherLive local conditions

You’re in controlPause or restore any time

See it in action

The sky outside, on your desktop.

Sky Wallpaper on a Mac desktop: a sunny coast with 78 degrees, a five-day forecast and an hourly chance of rain — Coast — a sunny day, with the forecast on the wallpaper

Sky Wallpaper showing a city skyline at golden hour — City — the warm light of golden hour

Sky Wallpaper showing rain falling over mountains — Mountains — rain, painted as it falls

Sky Wallpaper showing a forest under a night sky — Forest — a clear night, lit by the moon and stars

Sky Wallpaper showing snowfall over a snowy landscape — Snow — it settles on the land while it stays cold

Sky Wallpaper showing a lake at sunset — Lake — sunset on the water

Sky Wallpaper showing a tropical beach — Tropics — landscapes that suit where you live

The Sky Wallpaper Wallpaper settings tab, with Look, temperature style, contrast, position, size and weather detail toggles — Customise — choose what the weather shows, and where it sits

The Sky Wallpaper General and Sky settings: launch at login, units, weather alerts, Sky moments, Landscape and High-quality sky — Settings — a few simple switches

What it does

A sky that is actually right. Landscapes that are yours.

The sky

Painted from the real conditions

The sun and moon sit where they really are, and the moon shows its true phase
Cloud cover, rain, snow, fog, lightning and wind follow the current conditions
Sunrise and sunset glow, and clear nights show the stars
Rare skies appear when the weather and the sky agree: a rainbow after rain, a meteor shower night, and the aurora when NOAA reports a storm strong enough to reach you
An optional High-quality sky paints clouds, light and stars in much finer detail

The land

Photographic landscapes

Coast, city, lake, mountains, forest, snow and the tropics, each lit for the hour
Automatic picks a scene that suits where you live, worked out on your Mac from maps built into the app
Surprise me daily gives you a different landscape each day
Someone else’s sky: choose a city where someone you love lives and your wallpaper shows their weather and names the place

Know what’s coming

Look ahead

Rain in the next hour, today’s high and low, a 5-day forecast and the chance of rain by hour, right on the wallpaper
Next 24 Hours: slide through today and tomorrow’s sky from the menu bar
Optional weather alerts, and Sky moments for golden hour, a rainbow, a meteor shower or an aurora
The temperature in the menu bar, in Celsius or Fahrenheit

Make it yours

Choose how it looks

Looks — Pure Sky, Minimal, Dashboard and Storm Watcher — set everything written on your wallpaper in one click
Pick the temperature style, text colour, contrast, position and size
Sky Journal: one picture a day, kept on your Mac, with your streak
Save This Sky keeps the picture on your desktop right now
Shortcuts support: a “Get Current Sky” action hands the picture to Shortcuts, so you can send it to your phone or a message

How it works

Asks first. Changes back when you say.

Nothing changes until you say so. A welcome window explains what the app will do. Until you choose “Start Changing My Wallpaper”, it changes nothing and makes no weather request.
It looks up your weather. Allow location, or type a city instead. It refreshes through the day and keeps the sun moving between updates.
Pause or restore from the menu bar. “Restore My Wallpaper” puts your picture wallpaper back. macOS does not let apps save Aerial or moving wallpapers, so you would choose those again in System Settings.

Privacy

No account. No tracking.

Sky Wallpaper has no account, analytics or ads. AppMast runs no server for it and receives no data from it. It reaches the internet only to:

Get your weather from Apple Weather. It uses your location for this, or the city you choose.
Check for an aurora, if you are far enough north or south, from NOAA’s public space-weather index. That request carries no location.

Your Sky Journal and settings stay on your Mac. Details are in our privacy policy.

Support

Real answers from the studio.

Questions or a problem? Email [email protected]. A real person answers.
Refunds for App Store purchases are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.
If the weather can’t be fetched, Sky Wallpaper keeps the last scene and shows when the data is from.
Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

Weather data is provided by Apple Weather. Landscape selection uses climate data from Beck et al. (2023), CC BY 4.0; cities from GeoNames, CC BY 4.0; lakes from Natural Earth; elevation from NOAA ETOPO1.