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kageroumado/phosphene

Video wallpapers for macOS, from your own videos or Wallpaper Engine's Steam Workshop — picked from System Settings' Wallpaper pane

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How fast kageroumado/phosphene is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

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Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 8 – Nov 5, 2026

Stars +83 in 59 days

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Forks +6 in 59 days

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Merged PRs 0 in 59 days

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Stars, forks, merged pull requests and Trendshift Trending rank, by day
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Sat, Sep 12, 2026+0+10
Sun, Sep 13, 2026+2+00
Mon, Sep 14, 2026+2+00
Tue, Sep 15, 2026+0+00
Wed, Sep 16, 2026+0+00
Thu, Sep 17, 2026+2+00
Fri, Sep 18, 2026+0+00
Sat, Sep 19, 2026+3+00
Sun, Sep 20, 2026+2+00
Mon, Sep 21, 2026+2+00
Tue, Sep 22, 2026+1+00
Wed, Sep 23, 2026+3+10
Thu, Sep 24, 2026+0+00
Fri, Sep 25, 2026+0+00
Sat, Sep 26, 2026+1+00
Sun, Sep 27, 2026+1+00
Mon, Sep 28, 2026+3+00
Tue, Sep 29, 2026+0+10
Wed, Sep 30, 2026+0+00
Thu, Oct 1, 2026+1+00
Fri, Oct 2, 2026+1+00
Sat, Oct 3, 2026+1+00
Sun, Oct 4, 2026+0+00
Mon, Oct 5, 2026+1+00
Tue, Oct 6, 2026+1+00
Wed, Oct 7, 2026+0+00
Thu, Oct 8, 2026+0+10
Fri, Oct 9, 2026+1+00
Sat, Oct 10, 2026+0+00
Sun, Oct 11, 2026+0+00
Mon, Oct 12, 2026+2+00
Tue, Oct 13, 2026+1+00
Wed, Oct 14, 2026+2+00
Thu, Oct 15, 2026+11+00
Fri, Oct 16, 2026+3+00
Sat, Oct 17, 2026+2+00
Sun, Oct 18, 2026+1+00
Mon, Oct 19, 2026+1+10
Tue, Oct 20, 2026+1+00
Wed, Oct 21, 2026+0+00
Thu, Oct 22, 2026+1+00
Fri, Oct 23, 2026+3+00
Sat, Oct 24, 2026+4+10
Sun, Oct 25, 2026+3+00
Mon, Oct 26, 2026+2+00
Tue, Oct 27, 2026+2+00
Wed, Oct 28, 2026+2+00
Thu, Oct 29, 2026+2+00
Fri, Oct 30, 2026+1+00
Sat, Oct 31, 2026+1+00
Sun, Nov 1, 2026+2+00
Mon, Nov 2, 2026+0+00
Tue, Nov 3, 2026+1+00
Wed, Nov 4, 2026+3+00
Thu, Nov 5, 2026+0+00
Total+83+60
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    • Mentions and achievements

    Where people are talking about kageroumado/phosphene, and every badge it has earned
    1. Oct 251 post

      • muse 视频真心不错。再放在电脑桌面，很香

        Read full on X, posted by @bm_xia88809

        @bm_xia88809 · x.com

    2. 5 months earlier
    3. Jun 81 post

      • • Gapless looping with frame-accurate PTS/DTS offsetting • Multi-display and per-Space wallpaper selections • Power-aware playback with graduated PlaybackPolicy • Pauses when every display is fully…

        Read full on X, posted by @the_osps

        @the_osps · x.com

    4. 7 days earlier
    5. Jun 11 post

      • 🖼️ 发现了一个 macOS 壁纸神器——Phosphene，一键把你的视频文件变成 mac 的桌面和锁屏动态壁纸。 导入 MP4/MOV，视频直接出现在系统壁纸选择器里，和苹果自带的 Aerials 动态壁纸并排列着——这种体验以前只有苹果系统自己能给。 GitHub： 技术侧挺扎实： - 基于苹果私有 WallpaperExtensionKit…

        Read full on X, posted by @FakeMaidenMaker

        @FakeMaidenMaker · x.com

    6. May 291 post

      • The apps I made or maintain • Refrax Browser, WebKit Arc replacement • Piru, a drug tracking application with info for 2000 substances • Phosphene, a video wallpaper engine • Rilmazafone, a GUI app…

        Read full on X, posted by @kageroumado

        @kageroumado · x.com

    7. May 251 post

      • POV: you just found phosphene and now you gotta rewrite your whole project 😭 667 already there.

        Read full on X, posted by @BrookTheOne

        @BrookTheOne · x.com

    8. May 231 post

      • I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (

        Read full on X, posted by @betterhn20

        @betterhn20 · x.com

    9. May 221 post

      • Someone reverse-engineered Apple's private wallpaper framework so your MP4 runs inside WallpaperAgent itself. AVPlayerLayer silently dies there. So they routed video through…

        Read full on X, posted by @sergeonsamui

        @sergeonsamui · x.com

    10. May 213 posts

      • I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers Article URL: Comments URL: Points: 11 # Comments: 1

        Read full on X, posted by @finguru1980

        @finguru1980 · x.com

      • Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers (

        Read full on X, posted by @betterhn300

        @betterhn300 · x.com

      • Apple hasn’t issued a comment; analyst Dana Whitfield of TechInsights notes the silence “speaks louder than a press release” and points to a pattern of relying on obscurity rather than hardening.…

        Read full on X, posted by @DeynegaSlava

        @DeynegaSlava · x.com

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