Beautiful Mountain Wallpaper For Mac

Every major version of Mac OS X macOS has come with a new default wallpaper. As you can see, I have collected them all here.

While great in their day, the early wallpapers are now quite small in the world of 5K displays.

May 03, 2016  Olla! I am back with a new collection of 15 Beautiful Wallpapers Of Mountains and Rivers. Wallpapers of Mountains and Rivers gives a really refreshing look, also they color combination in these Wallpapers are awesome. You can use these Wallpapers for your Desktop, PC, Mac, iMac, iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

Major props to the world-class designer who does all the art of Relay FM, the mysterious @forgottentowel, for upscaling some of these for modern screens.

If you want to see detailed screenshots of every release of OS X, click here.

10.0 Cheetah & 10.1 Puma

The first two releases of Mac OS X shared the same wallpaper. The sweeping blue arcs and curves helped set the tone of the new Aqua interface.

10.2 Jaguar

Jaguar took the same Aqua-inspired theme but added some depth and motion to things. In my head, the trails streaking across the screen were from a set of comets.

10.3 Panther

While Panther inflicted Macs everywhere with Brushed Metal, its wallpaper stayed on brand, refreshing the original 10.0 image.

10.4 Tiger

Many consider Tiger to be the best “classic” version of Mac OS X. While that may or may not be true, it has my favorite Aqua-inspired wallpaper.

10.5 Leopard

Complete with a revised, unified user interface and shiny new Dock, 10.5 broke the Aqua mold. As such, Leopard was the first version of OS X to break from the Aqua-themed wallpaper. It ushered in the “space era” of OS X wallpapers, which was used heavily in the new Time Machine interface as well.

10.6 Snow Leopard

The “no new features” mantra for Snow Leopard didn’t ban a new wallpaper, thankfully. This starscape is still one of my favorites.

10.7 Lion

Lion kept up the space theme, this time showing off the Andromeda galaxy. The space nerd in me likes the idea, but the execution of this one leaves dead-last on my list of favorites.

10.8 Mountain Lion

Just like Snow Leopard before it, with Mountain Lion, Apple opted to clean up and revise the existing theme as opposed to changing directions for what would be a less-impactful release of OS X.

10.9 Mavericks

Mavericks marked the beginning of Apple’s “California location” naming scheme for Mac releases. The wave depicted looks as intimidating as the ones in the famous surfing location.

10.10 Yosemite

Yosemite brought another UI refresh to the Mac, making things flatter and more modern. The wallpaper ushered in a new era based on … well … mountains.

10.11 El Capitan

Named after a breathtaking spot in Yosemite National Park, El Capitan was a clean-up year after 10.10.

10.12 Sierra

More mountains.

10.13 High Sierra

Even more mountains.

10.14 Mojave

No more mountains! Mojave brought a new system-wide Dark Mode, and the OS shipped with two versions of its default wallpaper to match. Users could even have macOS slowly fade between the two background images over the course of the day. Here are all of them together. Click through to download any of them:

10.15 Catalina

macOS Catalina brought big changes to the Mac, including the ability to run iPad apps natively, opening the platform up to a much larger number of developers than ever before. Catalina shipped with eight variants of its default wallpaper,¹ and the ability to shift between them as time progresses throughout the day:

Click through to download any of them:

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1. This wallpaper clocks in at 6,016 x 6,016 pixels to support the Pro Display XDR. ↩

Sounds good? Well it looks good too.

Wallpaper Wizard features

Curated wallpaper for your desktop

Even if you’ve had default Mac backgrounds all your life, you’ll quickly get addicted to backgrounds from Wallpaper Wizard. They are talented photos picked in good taste — just the right fit for your beautiful Mac.

Over 25K images and growing

The amount of backgrounds in Wallpaper Wizard is massive, and there are new ones arriving every month. That means you won’t run out of fresh backgrounds for your desktop even if you change them every day.

Favorites to save pics you like best

Update mac graphics driver. With that many wallpapers and backgrounds, it’s easy to lose track of those that caught your eye. Add pictures you like best to Favorites and have them close at hand whenever you want them again.

Retina-ready photos in HD 4K quality

When you have a Retina display — especially one of those big 4K ones — image resolution can make it or break it. All desktop images in Wallpaper Wizard come in 4K quality to look sharp even on high-end displays.

New desktop pictures automatically

You can have a new background as often as you want without even launching the app. Just add all wallpapers you like to Roll, choose how often you’d like them to change, and gorge on gorgeous new pics all the time.

Multi-display to doll up all your displays

There are many options for your many displays: you can use the same desktop wallpaper on all of them, set different backgrounds that always change, or have a sequence of images that roll through your displays.