Image: paperflowmac.vercel.app · PaperFlow for macOS — your desktop, quietly alive. Native video wallpapers and Wallpaper Engine scenes, free and open source.
A Wallpaper Engine style app for macOS rewritten in Rust
Claude wrote the whole Rust rendering backend for a macOS live-wallpaper app that uses far less memory than existing apps.
Credits
- Reddit poster Suitable-Accident-66 Source ↗
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The full story
The poster used Claude to build a Wallpaper Engine port for macOS, with Claude writing the entire Rust backend from scratch. The poster says the weekly usage limit was used up building it.
The claimed result is that plain video wallpapers use 12 to 25 MB where other apps took 200 to 250 MB, and heavy scenes dropped from 1.5 to 1.7 GB to under 700 MB. These figures are the poster's own.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Wallpaper Engine port for MacOS
The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.
The poster has deleted it, but the original is still readable (it can take a few seconds to load): archived copy of Reddit: Wallpaper Engine port for MacOS (opens in a new tab)
- The project: paperflowmac.vercel.app
Linked in the post.
- Reddit: Wallpaper engine port for MacOS, rewritten from scratch using RustReddit poster: Suitable-Accident-66Posted
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: Wallpaper engine port for MacOS, rewritten from scratch using Rust (opens in a new tab)