Cartogram: Live Map Wallpaper

About this app

Your Places. Your Desktop. Your Story. Your Mac's desktop is the backdrop to your whole day — and most of us settle for a stock photo we stopped seeing weeks ago. Cartogram turns it into something that means something: a living map of a place you love, drifting quietly behind your work. That street in Lisbon where you got happily lost. The coastline you grew up on. Your grandmother's neighbourhood, an ocean away. The city you're saving up to see someday. Cartogram renders it with native Apple Maps — in 3D, day and night, right on your desktop — and lives in your menu bar, out of the way until you want it. It's not a wallpaper you forget about. It's a quiet, beautiful reminder of where you've been and where you're going. ———————————————————————— LIVING, NOT STATIC • A true live wallpaper — real map data rendered in 3D, with tilt and depth • Golden Hour mode — your desktop chases sunrise and sunset around the planet • Flyover Cities — one click to a cinematic 3D camera over world landmarks • Gentle day-to-night styling that follows the real sun • Optional ambient drift — on when you want it, off to save power • Every dynamic wallpaper shows the same mountain. Yours can show home. BUILT FOR YOUR MAC • Lives in the menu bar — no Dock clutter, no window in the way • Pinned behind your icons, on every Space and every display • Sips power: pauses when fully hidden, throttles on battery • Native Apple Maps rendering — gorgeous 3D satellite & city imagery • Honours your Mac's accessibility settings — VoiceOver-ready, respects Reduce Motion • Launch at login and forget it's even running MANY WAYS TO LOOK • Search any place on Earth and glide to it • A catalogue of map styles — clean, dark, terrain, satellite • Follow your own location with a soft pulsing marker, or pin somewhere far away • Choose your own accent colour for the location marker PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. No ads. Your places stay on your Mac. Location is only ever used if you choose "Follow my location." ———————————————————————— Made with care by Round Tower.

Steadier, lighter, and a screen saver that behaves itself. • Screen saver — installs properly now, and always shows your current map without needing a reinstall • Lock Screen — your wallpaper keeps in step with the map instead of quietly going stale • Large displays — easier on your Mac, and much smaller wallpaper files • Style picker — redesigned so every style is visible at once, AMOLED included • Accessibility — full VoiceOver labels, Reduce Motion support, and clearer selection Thank you for the reports that led to these. Keep them coming.

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1. First observed Aug 8, 2026 · 12:59 PM Free