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9SwiftAudience · generalComplexity · 2/5Setup · moderate

TLDR

A small macOS app that automatically rotates your desktop wallpaper using the developer's personal curated collection of Unsplash photos.

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    What it does
      Rotates macOS wallpaper
      Uses curated Unsplash photos
      Personal collection
    Tech stack
      Swift
      SwiftUI
      Liquid glass UI
    Use cases
      Personal wallpaper automation
      macOS desktop customization
    Audience
      Mac users
      SwiftUI learners
    Docs status
      No install guide
      Screenshot only

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Automatically refresh your Mac desktop with hand-picked wallpaper photos.

USE CASE 2

Learn from a small SwiftUI macOS project's source code.

USE CASE 3

Fork it and swap in your own Unsplash collection for a personal wallpaper rotator.

What is it built with?

SwiftSwiftUImacOS

How does it compare?

sameerasw/dailydidisouzacosta/gloweffectkitrealm/rcurrency
Stars9910
LanguageSwiftSwiftSwift
Last pushed2023-08-16
MaintenanceDormant
Setup difficultymoderateeasyeasy
Complexity2/52/52/5
Audiencegeneraldeveloperdeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

No packaged installer described, likely requires building from source in Xcode.

No license information is provided in the README.

In plain English

Daily is a small macOS app that changes your desktop wallpaper using a personal collection of photos the developer picked out on Unsplash. Instead of writing your own script to rotate wallpapers or relying on a generic wallpaper app, this project pulls from one curated set: pictures the author personally liked and saved to a public Unsplash collection. The project is written in Swift and built with SwiftUI, Apple's toolkit for building native Mac and iOS style interfaces, which means the app should feel like a normal, lightweight piece of Mac software rather than a heavy cross-platform tool. The README mentions "liquid-glass" as a topic, which is Apple's newer visual design language used in recent macOS and iOS updates, so the app's interface likely uses that translucent, glassy look. Beyond that, the README is very sparse. It shows a single screenshot of the app in action and a link to the Unsplash collection the wallpapers come from, but it does not explain how to install the app, whether it needs to be built from source in Xcode, how often the wallpaper changes, or whether there are any settings a user can adjust. There is no setup guide, no license information, and no description of system requirements beyond it being a macOS project. For a non-technical reader, the simplest way to think about this is: it is a personal wallpaper changer built by one developer for their own use, using photos they liked, and shared publicly on GitHub with a screenshot as the only real documentation. Anyone hoping to use it themselves would likely need to open the project in Xcode and build it manually, since there is no packaged download or installer described in the README. With only nine stars, this looks like a small side project rather than a polished, widely used tool.

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Prompt 1
Explain how a SwiftUI macOS app could set the desktop wallpaper periodically.
Prompt 2
Show me how to build and run a Swift macOS project like this one in Xcode.
Prompt 3
Help me adapt this wallpaper app to use my own Unsplash collection instead.
Prompt 4
Walk me through what liquid-glass styling means in a SwiftUI app like this.

Frequently asked questions

What is daily?

A small macOS app that automatically rotates your desktop wallpaper using the developer's personal curated collection of Unsplash photos.

What language is daily written in?

Mainly Swift. The stack also includes Swift, SwiftUI, macOS.

What license does daily use?

No license information is provided in the README.

How hard is daily to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated moderate, with roughly 30min to a first successful run.

Who is daily for?

Mainly general.

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