Plash is a free and open-source app that lets you turn any website into your Mac desktop wallpaper

A view of Earth's globe, with a popup window showinga selection of three websites, one which is selected as earth a global map of wind, weather, and ocean (rest is cut off)

Do you ever wish your Mac’s wallpaper was a little more…animated? Plash is a free app that lets you turn any website into your desktop wallpaper—and you’ll even be able to interact with it.

There’s an easy way to use transform any YouTube video into wallpaper on Windows—this is the Mac version of that trick, and you can use any website. There are some practical, boring reasons you might want to do this. For example, maybe you find the desktop widgets in macOS Sonoma underwhelming and would rather turn your desktop into a giant Google Calendar.

I’ve long been using something similar on my Linux KDE desktop to show an updated world map view of all the ham radio JS8Call activity, which updates every few minutes.

See https://lifehacker.com/tech/turn-any-website-into-your-mac-wallpaper

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