
Like the fixed view options, these wallpapers also sync with the time of day.

By contrast, the mixed view wallpapers offer a mixture of views and photos from the same city. The former, like Apple’s native dynamic wallpapers, feature stationary scenes that change throughout the day. The 24 Hour Wallpaper app offers fixed and mixed view dynamic wallpapers. The city scenes highlight areas around New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Tokyo, Madrid, Amsterdam, and others. The nature package includes breathtaking scenes featuring the Sierras, Yosemite, Joshua Tree, Pyramid Lake, Sonoma, and more. This review focuses on the Mac version.Ģ4 Hour Wallpaper offers a great selection of ever-changing nature and city backgrounds at full 5K resolution on supported devices. 24 Hour Wallpaper is available for Mac and Windows. By Jetson Creative, the freemium app offers three professionally captured dynamic wallpapers for free, and 83 (and counting) with a purchase. 24 Hour Wallpaper is one of my favorites. Luckily, third-parties have stepped up to provide additional dynamic wallpapers.

Including macOS Big Sur, which arrives this fall, Apple has released only four dynamic wallpapers. Unfortunately, it’s one Apple hasn’t embraced. First introduced with macOS Mojave in 2018, dynamic wallpapers automatically change to match the time of day.

The issue is most noticeable on Mac with dynamic wallpapers.
