LiveWall — Privacy Policy

Last updated: 7 October 2026

LiveWall plays your videos as the desktop wallpaper on your Mac. It has no servers, no accounts and no analytics, and it never connects to the internet: the App Store version is not even permitted to (it is built without network access). Nothing you do in the app is sent anywhere, and the developer receives no data about you at all. This policy describes LiveWall as it is distributed through the Mac App Store.

What the app reads on your Mac

The videos you add — only the files and folders you drag in or choose in the Open dialog, and only to play them and to show their thumbnail, resolution, length and frame rate. LiveWall does not look at any other file.
Your displays — their identifiers and the names macOS gives them, so the wallpaper goes to the display you chose and a video pinned to a display finds it again.
Power and window state — whether the Mac is on battery or in Low Power Mode, whether the displays are asleep, and whether the wallpaper is covered by a full-screen app or a window that fills the display, so playback can pause when you asked it to. LiveWall does not read what is in other apps' windows, only whether a display is covered.

What leaves your Mac

Nothing. LiveWall makes no network requests of any kind: no telemetry, no crash reporting, no update checks, no advertising. The one exception is not LiveWall's: buying or restoring LiveWall Pro goes through the App Store, under Apple's privacy policy, and LiveWall learns only whether Pro is unlocked.

What is stored on your Mac

Your playlist: where each video is, and (in the App Store version) the permission macOS gives the app to open it again after a restart.
Your settings — rotation period, transition, order, displays, energy options, theme, language.
The displays LiveWall has seen, by identifier and name, so a video pinned to a display that is unplugged keeps its pin; a display not seen for a while is forgotten.

All of it lives in the app's own folder on your Mac. Deleting the app removes it; nothing is kept anywhere else. Your videos are played where they are — LiveWall does not copy, change or upload them.

Children

LiveWall collects no personal information from anyone, children included.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will appear on this page with a new date.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@mainlane.io.