Magic Window 4K 4+

Wallpaper & Screen Saver

Jetson Creative LLC

    • 4.5 • 47 Ratings
    • $9.99

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Description

Spend your day around the world with this beautiful collection of timelapse wallpapers and screen savers. Supports latest macOS & M1/M2.
Optimized for 3K/4K/5K displays.

Magic Window 4K brings your desktop to life with relaxing slow moving timelapse views for your wallpaper and screen saver. The app includes 218 views of coasts, beaches, cities, mountains, lakes, and more. Watch as time and light slowly paint the skies beautiful colors and cities transform from day to night and back again.

Created by the same team that brought you Magic Window for iPad and iPhone, this is a new style of desktop wallpaper made using timelapse photography. The wallpapers slowly blend over time revealing magical changes in scenery and color. The goal is to create slow and subtle movement that does not distract from work.

The speed of the wallpaper can be changed from slowest where movement is not visible to fastest where movement is subtle and noticeable. Depending on if you prefer more static wallpaper or "live" wallpaper you can adjust this setting to conform to your tastes. Most views were filmed over hours and capture complete sky transitions.

EDITIONS:

Magic Window comes in two editions - Magic Window and Magic Window 4K. Please get the right edition for your Mac. If you end up with the wrong version please e-mail support@magicwindow.app.

Magic Window 4K is best for:
* 2016 and newer 15"-16" MacBook Pro with Retina Display
* 2018 and newer 13" MacBook Pro with Retina Display
* iMac with 4K/5K Retina Display
* Mac Pro or Mac Mini with 3K/4K/5K display

Magic Window is ideal for all other Mac Models including:
* MacBook Air (current and older models)
* MacBook Pro models without Retina Display
* MacBook Pro 15"-17” models older than 2016
* MacBook Pro 13" models older than 2018
* MacBook (12")
* iMac models without Retina Display
* Older Mac models in general

Magic Window 4K scenes are full 1.9:1 Ultra 4K resolution (4096x2160). They look fantastic on every single Mac model. These are truly high definition wallpapers, not stretched low resolution videos.

Magic Window 4K includes 218 scenes: 11 are built into the app, and 207 are downloaded after you install the app. We use scene downloads so we can bring you more and more scenes without making the app larger and larger. There are no additional charges for downloads. You can install the app on as many Macs as you want and download scenes as many times as you want.

Note there are fewer scenes in Magic Window 4K than Magic Window because earlier Magic Window scenes were not filmed in 4K.

The downloadable wallpapers total 20GB in size. You can choose to download as many as you want or download all. You can also delete wallpapers and re-download them later. To download all wallpapers you will need 20GB of spare storage.

Magic Window fully supports multiple monitors, allowing you to have different scenes on each display and to selectively enable or disable displays. AirPlay can also be used to display the scenes on an Apple TV. Note that you can not stretch a single scene across multiple displays.

SELECT NATURESCAPES:
Big Sur, Catalina Island, Mojave Desert, Yosemite National Park, Joshua Tree, Lake Tahoe, New Zealand, Iceland, Mono Lake, Pyramid Lake, Santa Monica, Pacifica, Oregon Coast, and many more!

SELECT CITYSCAPES:
Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Chicago, Edinburgh, Hamburg, Florence, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Lucerne, New York City, Paris, Prague, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Taipei, Tokyo, Venice, and many more!

Enjoy Magic Window 4K. If you have questions especially about compatibility with your display setup feel free to contact us at support@magicwindow.app.

This release was shipped from the Liberty Theater in Astoria, Oregon.

PLEASE NOTE:
This is not a system screen saver - it works independently of the system screen saver.

What’s New

Version 5.1

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS! THANK YOU!
- 16 new scenes including Monterey, White Sands, Tokyo, Miami, and more!
- Fixes several multi-monitor issues.
- If you have any issues with the update please contact us at support@magicwindow.app.

Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5
47 Ratings

47 Ratings

Barbara Allison 01 ,

The best part of my new iMac!I Simply breathtaking!

I just adore this app. The photos are spectacular, and the time lapse is mesmerizing. I had the previous version and loved it, and immediately got the 4K version with my brand new iMac. Really, these developers are so gifted and so customer friendly. I wish I had the time to read all of the stories behind each of their photos, but it’s so wonderful that they are included. And you can personalize in so many ways, by choosing your favorite images to loop (alas, they are all my favorite images), and by adjusting the speed of the time lapse. I sign up for the BETA versions because I just can’t wait to get the latest and greatest images. And the developers get back to you within less than a day, if for no other reason than to thank you for letting them know how much you adore their app. If you love beautiful, breathtaking images that take you on mini excursions around the world to watch the sunrise, the sunset, and the coulds rolling over, this is your app!

§quareßear ,

Works Smoothly

I enjoy most aspects of MW4K. It works great on my 2013 iMac, and there are only a couple of elements which need improvement, but which do not detract from a five star rating. The scene browser could be larger; it uses the same scene browser from the orginal Magic Window, but which now looks expecially small on the larger displays 4K is meant for. Also, There are a bunch of favorite scenes from the original Magic Window that are missing from the 4K lineup, because (understandably) they were not filmed in higher resolution. But I still miss then all the same. I wish there was an option to download the lower resolution older scenes, even if I’m only seeing them in standard definition. They are still pretty to look at after all.

Programmer / Handyman ,

Beautiful … but laptops run hot

The photography here is 5 stars.

I would have rated the overall application a solid 5 stars except that even on the slowest play setting it makes both of my MacbookPro’s (13” and 15”) run hot. True to the documentation, the Activity Monitor only shows around 5% CPU on the slowest setting, but I think there must be additional GPU processing… at any rate something is causing my machines to run so hot that I chose to disable this application.

How they can fix it: I tested vs. native wallpaper (OS X System Preferences -> Desktop) with "Change picture" set to 5 seconds with very similar CPU and temperature results. So I don’t think this software is doing anything wrong other than updating the image rather frequently. I simply advise the developers to add an additional "really slow” playback speed. Have it update at 1 minute intervals. It’s still a really cool effect, and I wouldn’t hesitate to leave it running even when I’m on battery power.

In the meantime here’s my workaround to still enjoy Magic Windows: I wrote a terminal loop to screencapture my favorite scene in a sequence of 50 or so images, put them into their own folder, then use the native Desktop pointed to that folder and set Change picture to 1 minute interval. Works and looks great!

Developer Response ,

Hi - Thank you for the thorough feedback. I appreciate the depth in which you researched this. As you've found for motion wallpaper we've got CPU about as low as it will go. That said we just released a new app 24 Hour Wallpaper that uses still wallpaper exactly like you describe. And as you describe it basically uses no CPU, GPU, or battery. So for people who want motion wallpaper, Magic Window 4K is still the best choice. If still wallpaper is good for you, 24 Hour Wallpaper gives you that and time synchronization. The additional GPU processing you refer too is likely the result of dynamic graphics switching which by its design results in the app effectively rendering twice on both graphics cards on the MBP. Disabling dynamic graphics switching typically solves it, but obviously that's not something we can recommend. Feel free to contact me directly at contact@magicwindowapp.com with more questions and feedback.

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