Image: reddit.com · Couldn't find a wallpaper engine for Mac that worked. Built one with Claude Code.
Waraq, a native Mac wallpaper engine with per-display profiles
A native Swift menu bar wallpaper app for multi-monitor Macs, built over a weekend with Claude Code after existing options fell short.
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The poster wanted a proper wallpaper engine for a Mac Studio with several displays, but found the good options abandoned, subscription-based, Electron wrappers or unable to keep the right wallpaper on the right monitor after unplugging anything. With Claude Code they built Waraq over a weekend.
It is a native Swift and AppKit menu bar app with per-display profiles keyed to hardware ID so they survive replugging, signed and notarised, under GPL v3. The poster says signing and packaging went fine and that about 60% of the work was the install guide, wiki, README and privacy page.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Couldn't find a wallpaper engine for Mac that worked. Built one with Claude Code.Reddit poster: Niiro__Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeCode.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: Couldn't find a wallpaper engine for Mac that worked. Built one with Claude Code. (opens in a new tab)
- The code: github.comRepository account: bahamut42
Linked from the post.