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Mar 15, 2011

Wallpaper Wizard Review - The Best Mac Wallpaper Changer

Ever since I have switched over to the Mac early last year, I was struggling to find an unique wallpaper changer that actually was modern and with a vast amount of pre-selected wallpapers. You might remember Desktoptopia from some years ago; sadly, that program is long gone but we have a new wallpaper changer in town, this time, it's called Wallpaper Wizard by Coppertino Inc.

When Ivan Ablamskyi, the developer of Wallpaper Wizard, contacted me about a week ago, I was thrilled to get my hands on a wallpaper changer on the Mac OS X platform. Very few wallpaper changes on this system exist and by finding Wallpaper Wizard, I think my dreak of the perfect wallpaper changer has came true. Enough with that; let's get on with the full blown review!

Design and Main Settings Window

My first thoughts of Wallpaper Wizard was that it was not going to have an elegant interface... boy they proved me wrong. Just the website alone grasped my attention. All of the screenshots, features, and the collection of wallpapers being shown was completely amazing!

After I gave Wallpaper Wizard a download, I immediately started playing around with it. When Ivan first sent me the review request, he mentioned their great user interface design. As a designer myself, I wanted to see what they were really talking about. When you first open Wallpaper Wizard to the main window, you'll be approached with a nice hat, symbolizing a wizard's hat, displaying your current wallpaper. I found this to be extremely handy and just a nice little feature to add.

At the bottom of the window, you can set your wallpaper changing time. For me, I've set it to every hour. You might be thinking to yourself, won't you run out of wallpapers? Let's just say right now it'll take nearly four and a half years to run out and see the same wallpaper again. Below that, you can set an option to make sure it'll start when OS X boots up. And of course, what's needed. is a simple shortcut to change the wallpaper. As there are many ways to change the wallpaper, I'm glad they added one more.

And of course, there is an icon up in menu bar with a feature-filled drop-down menu.

When it's changing your wallpaper, there's an awesome transition going on too! I really love the amount of thought just put into the transitions!

Gallery

This is the biggest selling point of Wallpaper Wizard... the gallery. This might surprise you, but there are 488 albums in the gallery of Wallpaper Wizard at this point in time! I don't know about you, but that's a ton! The biggest key feature of Wallpaper Wizard is that you don't have to store an of these images yourself; everything is stored on their own servers for the application to download when necessary.

Let's just jabber off some of these galleries, shall we?

  • Animals, Cars, Exotic, Nature, Abstract, Architecture 3D, Beaches, BMW Classics, Dogs, Fire, Game Scene, Green, Iceberg, Nature, Sunset and Sunrise, 50 Cent, Aircraft, Angelina Jolie, Asian Food, Battlefield 2, Brad Pitt (ladies, this is for you too), Call of Duty, and so much more!

It would take a long time for you to glance at the rest of the categories. So download our list of what you could get in Wallpaper Wizard. And yes, it's long... really long.

I've never seen a gallery of wallpapers so vast in any wallpaper changer ever! This is like a museum, there's so much to see, but it would take years to see it all! I've selected the albums I personally want, and Wallpaper Wizard is telling me it will take four years and five months to go through every single wallpaper that I've selected; don't fear, you don't select them individually, you do it by album.

What I'd really like to see is a popular section and maybe, just maybe, some recommendations of albums based on what I've selected. I'm sure the gallery will grow much larger over time, but my question is, how would the user know if a new album has been added? I'd love to see a new albums section too! I also would like to see an implementation of favorites added. This way, the user can remember what wallpapers they like. And if you want to get really advanced, make a feature to sort by color! There are so many endless possibilities to do! I'm sure as a developer myself, Wallpaper Wizard will be coming a long way!

Not to mention, the quality of these wallpapers is simply amazing! Every wallpaper is in HD format and there's 100,000 of them (according to their website)! I'm quite sure you'll spend more time in your day fancying all of your wallpapers once you give Wallpaper Wizard a try!

Not only can you use the already provided albums, you can create your own too and upload your photos right to their server! I would like to see a feature to still be able to access the images from a folder on your hard drive... it's an old way of doing this, but having it would be nice to have.

Online Sharing

I'm so glad to see the social media aspect coming into play in Wallpaper Wizard. When you click on "Share Current Wallpaper" in the menu bar, you're greeted to the above webpage. You can send the link off to others, tweet about it, or share it off with others on Facebook. I like the fact for this tight integration, but I think that can do better.

There's one main feature that I think would make an awesome addition. Maybe when your wallpaper changes, Wallpaper Wizard can send off a tweet automatically to your account. I can see so many users loving this feature for a nice easy-share of what wallpaper your using that day or even hour.

I'd also love to see this webpage built into the application itself other than directing me off to my browser. I find it somewhat odd of leaving me out of the application that's made for this task, and moving me over to another.

 

Final Thoughts

 

I'm really loving Wallpaper Wizard and I can see some much room for expandability in the future. Wallpaper Wizard has transformed the way I use wallpapers. Originally, I have nearly a 6GB folder of just wallpapers sitting on my hard drive waiting to be used. Now, I have many times that with an awesome user interface to manage all of them without any loss of storage space.

If you're looking for some variety in your day, pick up a copy of Wallpaper Wizard! It sells for $9.99 on the Mac App Store (there is a lite/free version) and is packed with a load of wallpapers. I hope to see more upcoming features coming in the next release and hope they take my ideas into consideration!

I declare Wallpaper Wizard the best Mac wallpaper changer of all time! Give it a download; you will not regret it!

If you're looking for more information on Wallpaper Wizard, please check out their website below:

http://wallwiz.com/

And if you're looking to purchase Wallpaper Wizard, you may do so at the below link:

http://wallwiz.com/purchase/

If you would like the lite/free version of Wallpaper Wizard, you may give it a trial by visiting the below link:

http://wallwiz.com/lite/

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