Unsplash Wallpapers for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By M Prewitt

  Inspirational wallpapers to infinity!

  It's a very nice app, works well. I cannot understand some of the complaints, because if you don't like the supplied images, you can easily create your own collection of images that you like from Unsplash and use that as the source of wallpapers. And there are TONS of beautiful, high-quality images on Unsplash. Hundreds, thousands. My only complaint with this app is how it handles portrait orientation images. It seems to blow them up too much. They are blurry, even though the source image is high res, plenty wide for on-screen use. But I just always choose landscape for my custom collection, and it works perfectly. It would be great if there was a 'smart search' feature where you could choose criteria (keywords, keywords to exclude, high key or low key, color/black, landscape/portrait, etc.) to get more dynamic new content. Would be very cool.

  
  
• By Tjacks28

  Love it - would love some tweaks tho

  I've loved Unsplash for some time. When I got a Windows at work, and then again for my personal computer, and discovered they have an app that lets you change your backgroun photo like I do on Windows, I was sold. That said, I love photos of various landscapes much more than single flowers, or unusual buildings, etc. As such, it would be awesome if this app allowed people to put tags for the things they want to see, and allow the photos to be filtered by said tags. Given that, when photos are uploaded to Unsplash for sharing tags are added to allow web users to find them better, it would be cool for this to be added. Alternatively, allowing users to "favorite" specific photos for mix into the rotation more frequently would also be good.

  
  
• By Hgaalex

  good concept, poor execution

  This was a really good idea for a laptop app, and I was very impressed with the idea when I first found it, but the app itself does not work very well. After a few days of using the app, I realized that I just liked looking at my own pictures better. When I tried to delete the app, I couldn’t at first because it was still open, or something like that. So then I tried launhcing the app to close out of it properly, or at least turn off the program it is running. Unfortunately I couldn’t do this. I am unable to simply open the app, and it is really annoying because I do not like having to look at pictures of horses on my laptop all day. One last note- when I tried o just change the wallpaper via system preferences, it worked for a few minutes, and then it changed back to the Unsplash pictures. I am very disappointed in the app because I thought I would have more control over the pictures being displayed, and I certainly never thought that I wouldn’t be able to launch the app.

  
  
• By Aaron.Molina

  Nifty app

  Changed my review to 2 stars due to the preferences setting doesnt actually work on automatically changing the background after a week, like I have set it. Please fix this crap. I like it but I wish I could remove the menubar icon from view. I kinda just want to set it and forget it while not being shown in the menu bar to keep things clutter free. I would also like to designate a place to download images, instead of the downloads folder, and also set the app to automatically download images to the set designated directory as it automatically updates my wallpaper. If this happens, there should be a notification shown on the side bar confirming that the image has been downloaded. This is just in case that I forget to that this is happening in the background and wonder why my disk is filling up, given that the images are nearly 4K. A hard notification everytime it is downloaded would help, versus the check mark hiden in the menubar preference icon.

  
  

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