A wallpaper studio for Mac, iPhone & iPad

Your photos, through sculpted glass.

Facet turns any picture into a wallpaper worth staring at. Reeded glass, frost, prism, halftone and dither, rendered live by a Metal engine, entirely on your device.

Coming soonto the App Store Grab the free photo pack ↓
The Facet app on macOS: a beach photo transformed by the Reeded Glass effect, with the effect list and preset bar around the live preview.
Reeded Glass · shot on a beach, reshaped in Facet on macOS

The effects

Seven effects, sixty-plus presets, and every slider is yours.

Every image below is the same photograph of a misty alpine lake, rendered by Facet's engine. Pick a preset, then push the parameters wherever you like.

Alpine lake photo through the Reeded Glass effect: vertical flutes melt the mountains into architectural glass.

Reeded Glass

Vertical flutes bend and repeat the image, like looking through architectural glass.

bend · depth · gloss · edges

Alpine lake photo through the Frosted Glass effect: a soft dreamy blur, like sea glass.

Frosted Glass

A deep two-pass frost that melts detail into pure color and light.

frost · light angle · grain

Alpine lake photo through the Prism effect: rainbow fringes bloom at the edges of the frame.

Prism

Chromatic dispersion splits the light into rainbow fringes, ported from paper.design's shader.

dispersion · falloff · center

Alpine lake photo as a teal halftone print made of dots.

Halftone

Classic print dots in any ink and paper color you choose.

dot size · angle · ink · paper

Alpine lake photo as a four-color CMYK process print with visible rosette dots.

Halftone CMYK

Four-color process printing, with per-plate control of every screen.

gain c·m·y·k · flood · grain

Alpine lake photo dithered into an indigo cyanotype pattern of pixels.

Dithering

Ordered-matrix dither from 1-bit newsprint to Game Boy green and cyanotype blue.

matrix · color steps · contrast

Before / after

The same photo, before and after.

Original photo: a misty alpine lake between mountains. The same lake photo rendered with Facet's Reeded Glass effect.

Drag to compare. The render comes from the same Metal engine that ships in the app.

How it works

It takes three steps.

1

Bring a photo

Open one from your library, or send it to Facet from any app with the share sheet.

2

Shape the effect

Start from a preset, then tune every parameter with a live, full-resolution preview.

3

Make it yours

Set it as your desktop wallpaper on Mac, or save to Photos on iPhone and iPad.

Native everywhere

One app, at home on every screen.

Facet is built with SwiftUI and Metal: no web views, no uploads, no waiting. The same engine renders your wallpaper at the exact pixel size of each display.

Mac

Set the result as your desktop wallpaper without leaving the app.

Facet on macOS with the parameter inspector open next to a Tokyo night photo in Reeded Glass.

iPhone

Save straight to Photos, then set it from your lock screen.

An iPhone lock screen with a frosted-glass wallpaper made in Facet.

iPad

The full inspector and preset bar on the big canvas.

Facet on iPad Pro showing the Reeded Glass effect with the full parameter inspector.
macOS 15+iOS 17+iPadOS 17+ Metal engineShare-sheet importExports at any size

Free photo pack

Twelve photos to get you started.

Shot by Facet's developer: kittens, lakes, coasts and mountains that take beautifully to glass and ink. Tap one to preview it, or download the whole pack at wallpaper resolution.

Misty alpine lake between dark mountains under a hazy sun.
alpine-lake-mist
 Turquoise cove framed by red rocks on a wild coast.
red-rock-coast
 Green valley and jagged Dolomite peaks under summer clouds.
dolomites-valley
 Old-town canal glowing blue and gold at dusk.
canal-at-night
 Footprints in golden sand at the edge of a blue sea.
beach-footprints
 A sailboat moored beneath tall sunlit cliffs in deep blue water.
coastal-cliffs
 Cobbled old-town lane with warm shop lights in the evening.
old-town-evening
 Alpine meadow with pines below a massive rock wall and white clouds.
dolomites-meadow
 Bright museum hall with columns, statues and visitors.
museum-hall
 Calico kitten stalking forward on a green table.
kitten-on-green
 Close portrait of a wide-eyed calico kitten.
kitten-portrait
 Profile of a ginger-and-white kitten with blue eyes.
kitten-profile
⤓  Download the pack · 12 photos, 57 MB

Free for personal use: wallpapers, edits, your own screens. No redistribution or commercial use. Ask for anything else.

Privacy

Nothing ever leaves your device.

Facet has no account, no analytics and no network access. Your photos are rendered by your own GPU and stay in your library. That is the whole policy, and there is a longer version on the privacy page.

Read the privacy policy