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Awesome macOS Screensavers
A curated list of screensavers for macOS.
Inspired by the awesome list thing.
Table of Contents
Clocks
fliqlo
A flip clock screensaver.
Today
Time or date displayed in a similar way to On Kawara's "Today Series" paintings.
Word Clock
A clock made of words. It switches between a circular and a paragraph layout.
Fractal Clock
A clock that produces a fractal tree pattern around it as it moves.
Epoch Flip Clock
Unix Time (epoch) flip clock.
Grid Clock
Twelve hour time in words.
Word Clock
A super simple word clock, like your computer is typing the time for you.
Simple Clock
A simple clock screensaver with different analogue clock faces as skins.
Free
ColorClock
Displays a solid color corresponding to the current time.
ScreenMazer
Continuously builds and then solves a maze, while displaying the current time.
Evangelion Clock
A digital clock screensaver inspired by the graphical interfaces from Neon Genesis Evengelion.
Free
Predator
A predator-inspired clock screensaver.
Death Counter
A simple counter screensaver that counts down to your death.
MinimalClock
Simple and elegant screensaver for MacOS that displays the time.
Free
MultiClock
Displays the time (and animations) using 24 individual clocks
Flip Clock Screensaver
A flip clock screensaver that can automatically dim the screen.
Free
Apple Inspired
Aerial
Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for Mac.
Apple Watch
A screensaver that looks like an Apple Watch.
Brooklyn
A screensaver inspired by Apple's Event on October 30, 2018
Free
MusaicFM
A screensaver inspired by the iTunes Artwork Screensaver for Spotify and Last.fm.
Free
iOS Lockscreen for macOS
A screensaver that looks like the lockscreen on iPhone and iPad.
October 30
Smoothly changes between 371 Apple logos from their 2018 iPad event.
Free
Fruit
Animated vintage Apple logo
Free
Retro
PongSaver
PongSaver is an macOS screensaver/clock which keeps time by using the score of a game of Pong. The left side wins once an hour, and the right side wins once a minute.
Textify Me
This interactive screen saver turns everything in front of your camera into text.
$0.99
Sci-Fi
The Github Matrix Screensaver
The latest commits from GitHub visualized in a Matrix-style animation.
StarWarsScroll
Recreates the opening titles of the first 6 Star Wars movies.
Matrix
One interpretation of The Matrix.
Video Game
SpeedS@ver
Plays videos of people completing speed runs of games.
Aquarium
Aquarium live lite
Video of aquariums.
Developer
Developer Excuses
A macOS Screensaver which shows quotes from http://developerexcuses.com (unofficial).
MacOS Kernel Panic
Harmless screensaver that faithfully emulates the horrifying experience of a kernel panic.
Free
Windows Kernel Panic
Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) screensaver for Mac.
Free
Graphics
Electric Sheep Infinite Evolving Artwork
Animations of evolving fractals.
Free
Screensson
Creates unique patterns on your display by randomly stacking vector stencils.
Donationware
Emoji Saver
Animates Apple, EmojiOne and Twitter Emojis in 7 different effects with many customizable settings.
Lite Version (Free) and Full Version ($3)
Life Saver
Designer-friendly abstract visualization of Conway's Game of Life.
Free (Open Source)
ElectropaintOSX
Port of the mesmerizing Silicon Graphics screensaver
Free (Open Source)
Ealain
Infinite and forever changing abstract art, generated by Stable Diffusion
Free (Open Source)
Other
Google Trends
Shows the latest hot searches for all regions or specific countries.
Free
Last Statement
Like the macOS "Word of the Day" screensaver, but instead of words and definitions, it's the names and last statements of people executed by the State of Texas.
Free (Open Source)
Collections
Bjorn Johansson
Digital art in the form of screensavers by designer Bjorn Johansson.
Free (pay what you want)
License
To the extent possible under law, Adam Garrett-Harris has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.