Claude-Reverser/Ambient
Native live wallpapers and movable desktop widgets for macOS. Swift, AppKit, Metal and WebKit.
About the project
Native macOS app that plays video live wallpapers and adds movable desktop widgets (clock, date, CPU, RAM, network).
Useful for
- Set a local MP4 or MOV as a video wallpaper without quality conversion
- Arrange clock, CPU and network widgets on the desktop
- Import a Wallpaper Engine scene via project.json or .pkg
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 0 stars so far today, about 6 expected by the end of the day.
- The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- The repository is 5 days old and already has 233 stars.
- Top new repositories this week: #45.
- About 25 forks a day — people are taking the code.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 233
- Stars in a day
- 6
- Forks
- 8
- Issues and pull requests
- 0
- Watchers
- 5
- Language
- Swift
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- v0.7.0 · September 13, 2026
- Created
- September 13, 2026
- Last push
- September 13, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- September 18, 2026Top new repositories this week: #36
- September 17, 2026Top new repositories this week: #40
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