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Facet
Turn any photo into a wallpaper, with live Metal effects
Facet is a native wallpaper studio for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Reeded glass, frost, prism, halftone and dither effects, rendered in real time with Metal, entirely on your device.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Fabio, I made Facet.
I kept taking photos I loved and wanting them on my screens, but plain photos rarely make good wallpaper: too busy behind the icons. So I built a small studio that reshapes a photo into something calmer and more graphic.
Facet has six effects, each one a real optical or print process rather than a filter:
- Reeded and frosted glass, like looking through architectural glass.
- Prism, real chromatic dispersion (ported from paper.design's shader).
- Halftone and CMYK halftone, actual print dots with per-plate control.
- Dithering, from 1-bit newsprint to Game Boy green.
It's a native Metal engine, so the preview is live and full resolution while you drag the sliders. Sixty-plus presets to start from. Everything runs on your GPU, on device: no account, no analytics, no network access, your photos never leave.
It's a universal app: one purchase of 2,99 € covers Mac, iPhone and iPad. No subscription. There's a free pack of 12 photos to try it on.
One limit: the output is a static wallpaper. macOS has no public third-party API for live desktop wallpapers, so I make still images by design.
Would love to know which effect you'd reach for first. Happy to answer anything.
The dither effects on my Mac look shockingly good and Metal rendering keeps everything snappy. Wish I could tweak the reeded glass blur a bit more, but overall a gorgeous little studio.
About Facet on Product Hunt
“Turn any photo into a wallpaper, with live Metal effects”
Facet was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #137 on the daily leaderboard. Facet is a native wallpaper studio for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Reeded glass, frost, prism, halftone and dither effects, rendered in real time with Metal, entirely on your device.
Facet was featured in iOS (110.5k followers), Mac (103.6k followers) and Wallpaper (6.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 47.3k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Facet?
Facet was hunted by Fabio Bassan. 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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