What's New

New

• Automatic lock screen sync: your lock screen can now follow your wallpaper, dynamic wallpapers included. Turn on Sync Lock Screen, and every change — a new wallpaper, Lab effects including weather, frozen frames, loops, solid color shuffle and auto text — syncs to your lock screen on its own, with live progress as it updates.
• Lock screen choices: show your Mural dynamic wallpaper or a still frame of it, or set any native macOS wallpaper independently.
• Automatic dynamic lock screen sync works on macOS 14, 15, 26 and 27.
• Mute Wallpaper Audio in Ambience: silences your wallpaper's own sound while an ambience track plays.
• Show in Finder for custom media: right-click any item to find its original file, and hover over a name to see it in full.
• Check for Updates, from the Help menu or the About window.
• New keyboard shortcuts: My Mural (⇧⌘H), Freeze Frame (⌘F) and Loop (⌘L).

Improved

• Lab color grading looks exactly the same on your desktop, still wallpaper and lock screen.
• Custom media lists each file by its original name.
• Mural automatically clears media copies it no longer uses, keeping its storage lean.
• Fully localized menus, with Toggle Mute (⇧⌘M), and Mural Help and Send Feedback in the Help menu.
• Home page tips are easier to spot, and Preferences is now called Settings.
• Better readability of the Mantra text list in Dark Mode.

Fixed

• Fixed brief stutters while syncing lock screens with weather, GIFs, videos, 3D text or Companion.
• Fixed missing File and Edit menus on macOS 26, and the Freeze Frame menu item not responding.
• Fixed copy and paste in Mantra text fields on macOS 26.
• Fixed the lock screen keeping a frozen frame after returning to the dynamic wallpaper.
• Fixed drag reordering of custom media in Widgets and of text lines in Mantra.
• Fixed 3D text with a background appearing still on the lock screen.
• Fixed Loop not applying when Done is tapped without adjusting the range.
• Fixed an occasional volume jump when hovering over theme previews.
• Fixed clock style tiles occasionally disappearing while scrolling, and the Flip style row overflowing on macOS 27.
• Fixed home page tips lingering after the change was made in the Lab, and drifting on macOS 14.
• Fixed Mural Engine status detection on first launch and the Quit Engine button.
• Fixed the Cinematic preset name wrapping onto two lines.
• Plus more refinements and improvements throughout.

• Dynamic lock screen is adapted for macOS 26.
• Set Menu Bar Color is adapted for macOS 26: when the system menu bar background is on, you can customize its color.
• Bug fixes and experience improvements.

• The custom text field in Mantra is now a full text editor — copy, paste, select, and edit anywhere in your text.
• Various refinements and polish throughout.

• New: Set Menu Bar Color. Besides adapting the color automatically, it also offers 9 preset swatches and a full color wheel to customize any color, and remembers the last color you picked.
• New: a solid color wallpaper system. Built in are 20 preset colors across four groups — Neutrals, Cool, Purple, and Warm — plus a full color wheel to customize any color and save it into your own "My Colors" library; a shuffle mode can also cycle through colors in order or at random, on an interval you set.
• Mantra text now supports multiple independent custom lines. Each line can independently set its own text properties and motion effects, with easy layer management by dragging in the list.
• Companion and Mantra (including 3D templates) can now both sync dynamically to the lock screen, completing full dynamic support for every Lab effect on the lock screen.
• Drag-and-drop import for your main wallpaper — drop a video or image straight onto the window to set it as your wallpaper — and file imports are now more reliable.
• Various other refinements and fixes.

• Drag-and-drop ordering for custom media. Reorder objects directly in the list with a live insertion indicator — list order is layer order.
• The layer order you set in the Lab is the layer order you get. Custom media, Mantra text and weather effects keep the front-to-back order you arranged, from the preview through to the desktop, still wallpaper and lock screen.
• The lock screen compositing pipeline has been rebuilt. Every custom media object shares one layer regardless of length, with weather effects resting on top.
• Wider reach for the dynamic lock screen. Still wallpapers and frozen frames paired with custom media in motion can now sync as a dynamic lock screen too.
• Companion and custom media share unified placement on the lock screen, rendering consistently across every resolution and aspect ratio.
• The home preview mirrors the current state of your desktop, kept separate from work in progress in the Lab.
• Improved 3D text rendering — lighting and material output are identical in the live preview, still wallpaper and lock screen.
• Further refinement of custom media and Mantra text editing, with motion presets retuned to match; frozen and loop modes carry across sessions intact, plus additional refinements throughout.

• Lock screen sync now also carries custom media and weather effects in motion — imported images, GIFs and clips keep animating there, along with rain, snow, fog and lightning.
• New motion presets for custom media: float, breathe, sway, spin, bounce and strobe, each with three speeds. Rendered consistently across Lab, home preview, desktop and lock screen.
• The history system has been improved across the board. Restore pipelines were reworked end to end, strengthening configuration recovery, playback continuity and thumbnail generation.
• Managing custom media has been refined throughout — visibility control, two-way selection between canvas and list, and greater precision and ease in editing interactions.
• The lock screen sync pipeline has been optimized, with improved media coordination and output quality.
• Additional fixes and refinements.

Improved History Experience

Wallpaper switching, Loop mode, and Lab effects now restore more accurately and smoothly in history. Thumbnails display more consistently.

Refined Lab Experience

Effect tagging and content management are now more precise. Localization improvements across multiple languages.

Overall Stability

Various under-the-hood improvements for a smoother everyday experience.

• Loops restored from History now pick up the right frame for the menu bar and lock screen.
• A regular video no longer reopens in Loop mode after a restart.
• Settings shows the installed version number.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

• A clearer setup guide for dynamic lock screen sync.
• The main window now opens at 1280 × 800.
• Lighter built-in theme videos for a smaller download and faster loading.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

• Video wallpapers for your Mac: set any video or image as your wallpaper, scrub to a perfect freeze frame or set a loop range, and browse the built-in Themes library — cinematic wallpapers each paired with a matching soundtrack.
• The Lab: real-time color grading with cinematic presets, film grain and CRT scanlines.
• Live widgets: analog, digital and flip clocks; rain, snow, lightning and fog with Nature Mode; a 3D Companion generated from your Mac; a system monitor; and custom image, GIF and video overlays.
• Mantra: animated text driven by six 3D motion engines, rotating through curated phrases or showing your own words.
• Ambience: soundscapes or your own music, balanced with a four-track mixer.
• History keeps every wallpaper state you apply.
• Dynamic lock screen sync with the free Mural Engine companion.
• Available in 9 languages.

• Works with Mural 3.1.0 to keep your lock screen in sync automatically on macOS 14, 15, 26 and 27.
• Opens automatically when Mural needs it and quits when done.
• On macOS 26 and later, it makes syncing easier with earlier versions of Mural too.

• Dynamic lock screen sync on macOS 26.
• Fixed the lock screen freezing or going black after unlocking on macOS 26.

• Interface in 9 languages.
• More reliable authorization and permission checks.
• Works with Mural from the Mac App Store.

Initial release.