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Atheria
Your desktop comes alive. And knows when to disappear.
Atheria turns your Mac desktop into living art you can grow yourself. Its Flame Creator generates fractal flames you shape, save, and share as a code. Every flame is one of a kind: there are more possible flames than atoms in the observable universe. It's also a full wallpaper engine: real-time custom shaders, a library of 85, and your own video loops that drop to 0 fps the moment they're hidden. macOS 15+, Apple Silicon and Intel. One-time Pro, no subscription, nothing ever leaves your Mac.
Hi Product Hunt, Ben here, solo dev behind Atheria.
I built Atheria because every live wallpaper app I tried was the same thing:
a catalog of looping videos quietly eating my battery. I wanted living art
that is computed, not replayed, and an app polite enough to vanish the
moment you cannot see it.
So Atheria renders generative art in real time on the GPU, and when a window
fully covers your desktop it stops rendering entirely. Measured with
Activity Monitor: about 3% of one core while animating, and 0.0% when
hidden. The methodology is a footnote on the site, not a marketing rounding
trick.
The parts I am proudest of:
- Shader Creator: write Metal shaders inside the app, or paste GLSL and let
it convert. No Xcode, no build step.
- Video Editor: trim, rotate, and boomerang any clip of yours into a
seamless loop.
- Privacy Guard: one hotkey frosts your whole screen when you step away.
- No accounts, no servers, no analytics. The privacy label is empty because
there is nothing to collect.
Free to try with a full-quality shader, no watermark, no time limit. Pro is
a one-time purchase, priced lower for launch week.
The real shaders run live in your browser if you want proof before
downloading anything: embraarchive.com/atheria-live.html
I will be here all day. Ask me anything, especially the hard performance
questions.
Love the idea of generating flames as shareable code, that part is genuinely cool. One thing I'd love to see is the ability to set a flame as your wallpaper directly and have it slowly evolve over time, like a screensaver mode that drifts through parameters instead of staying static. Would make it feel even more alive.
About Atheria on Product Hunt
“Your desktop comes alive. And knows when to disappear.”
Atheria was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #160 on the daily leaderboard. Atheria turns your Mac desktop into living art you can grow yourself. Its Flame Creator generates fractal flames you shape, save, and share as a code. Every flame is one of a kind: there are more possible flames than atoms in the observable universe. It's also a full wallpaper engine: real-time custom shaders, a library of 85, and your own video loops that drop to 0 fps the moment they're hidden. macOS 15+, Apple Silicon and Intel. One-time Pro, no subscription, nothing ever leaves your Mac.
Atheria was featured in Mac (103.6k followers), Menu Bar Apps (12.2k followers) and Wallpaper (6.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 12.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Atheria?
Atheria was hunted by Benjamin James. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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