John's Background Switcher

macOS / Style de vie

John's Background Switcher puts beautiful full-screen photos and stunning montages on your desktop. Choose the photos from your own collection on your Mac or websites like Flickr, Unsplash, Pixabay, SmugMug, Vladstudio and many more besides. You'll never know what's coming next - maybe photos from a recent holiday, landscapes from far and distant lands, pictures of small kittens or equally small dogs. If you're having a tough day, just take a look at your desktop and John's Background Switcher will get you through it!

Main features include:
• Show single photos or a variety of randomly generated beautiful montages on your desktop
• Choose photos from folders on your Mac or from the Photos app (with full support for iCloud photos)
• Rich Flickr, Unsplash, SmugMug, Pixabay, Vladstudio, Pinterest, Pexels, Wallhaven, Immich, Dropbox and OneDrive (personal) integration
• Media RSS photo feeds (so you can use a great many more photo sites)
• Multiple monitor support (show the same background all monitors, different pictures on each monitor or only on one monitor)
• Switching intervals from every 10 seconds to 7 days
• A variety of post processing effects like grayscale, sepia and desaturation
• Lots of new features in the works for future versions (plus if you'd like to see anything, let me know!)

Once set up JBS quietly runs in the background changing your desktop and stays out of your way. If you don't love it, tell me what you'd like it to do from the support link and I'll add it as soon as I can! And remember, I'm a real person called John so be nice. :)

Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?

This version brings a better collage, smooth crossfading transitions between wallpapers, some user interface improvements and a few much needed bug fixes. Full details below:

• The photo collage has been improved to no longer crop photos - instead of choosing a size you decide how many pictures you want on a screen
• There's now a smooth crossfade transition when the wallpaper changes (which can be switched off in the Switching preferences)
• You can now choose where to position captions on each postcard / collage tile in the Montages preferences
• New macOS 26 look and feel including menu icons
• Replaced the custom colour picker for the platform one on macOS 13 and above
• View Current Picture now works for photos chosen from the macOS Photos app
• Updated the auto-starting functionality to remove deprecated code
• Fixed postcard / polaroid pile duplicates appearing
• Fixed some pictures being incorrectly orientated in the 'View Current Picture' window
• Now requires macOS 12 and above to run

If you have any problems or suggestions then don't hesitate to contact me at support@johnsadventures.com and I'll be delighted to help you out!