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Awesome macOS Screensavers Awesome

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

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)

image

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

CC0

To the extent possible under law, Adam Garrett-Harris has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.