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XScreenSaver

by Jamie Zawinski

iPhone · iPad

Active Last checked 7 Aug 2026

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  • Free to download

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  • Free

Ratings & reviews

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4.9 105 ratings · App Store

  1. 5/5This is by far one of the best apps of 2024 PERIOD!

    I have to point out that I use my iPad Pro and my Macbook Pro M2 for Music Production, Song Writing, Sound Productions, Recording... Even though its an amazing job, its still a job, and work needs to be done to meet standards and deadlines. Most music apps/software/programs are becoming more and more user friuendly... The GUIs are full of beautiful eye candy and resemble analog equipment. Because software is much cheaper than hardware, it appeals to 'Starving Artist' and musicians. And since the early stages of Windows, Linux and Mac musicians have migrated to the world of PC's! So I have been a part of the ever growing screen savers since 1995, and this brings back memories, and been an inspiration! The amount of content and the control you have over these amazing screen savers is well worth over $100 ... I feel like this app is too good to be true! i can only hope that this app is able to be on the app store for years and years! Thank you so much for this AMAZING APP! Also thank you for allowing it to be used on iPad as well as Macbook!

    Thirdnail · 7 Aug 2026

  2. 5/5Acknowledgements

    I would like to express my profound gratitude to Jamie Zawinski for developing XScreenSaver. Your commitment to building an open-source screensaver software that is both reliable and aesthetically pleasing is remarkable. Your passion and dedication to the development of this useful and versatile software is inspiring. Thank you for all the hard work you've put into this project. Cordially yours, José {with the help of OpenAI, bits but not all}

    Mic E Melee · 7 Aug 2026

  3. 5/5This is awesome

    I can remember being completely mesmerized by these screensavers back in my early days of playing around with Linux. Seeing them run perfect on a device I can slid into my pocket is really cool. I really do appreciate the work that was put into getting these onto the iPhone. There is so much nostalgia in this package, and my kids really enjoy flipped through them. Thank you and please keep up the awesome work!

    blaine00 · 7 Aug 2026

  4. 5/5Amazing and beautiful and FREE!!!

    It’s astonishing that something so beautiful and fun is totally free and won’t shove ads in your face or try to follow you around like a snitch. This outstanding collection of screensavers from the good ol’ days of X11 is my new favorite app. I’m going to install the macOS version, too.

    MaxAgHammer · 7 Aug 2026

  5. 4/5So nostalgic just what I wanted

    I really like having this on the side of my iPad while writing in my journals. Only problem is there’s no way to save the ones you like, you have to commit them to memory or write them down somewhere. At least there’s a slider to get to any letter faster. Also the fact that I don’t like most of them would have made it nice if there was a hide feature.

    RustVel · 7 Aug 2026

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Versions

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  • 5.30

    New hack, "WindupRobot". Many improvements to "Lament", including the Leviathan Configuration. FlyingToasters: Shading is correct now, and flying toast is now toasted. SkyTentacles: cel-shading sort-of works now. Fixed dragging-to-rotate on rotated iOS devices, I think. Dragging has inertia now. Most hacks respond to mouse-clicks, double-taps and swipes as meaning "do something different now". Reworked OpenGL fonts. Various minor fixes.

  • 5.31

    New hacks: GeodesicGears, BinaryRing and Cityflow. UTF-8 text support in the text-displaying hacks. GLPlanet now has both day and night maps, and a sharp terminator. Fixed a transparency glitch in WindupRobot. Lockward works on iOS. Rotation works properly on iOS 8. Added a search field.

  • 5.32

    Fixed display-size problems on iOS 7 Retina devices; re-enabled support for iOS 5 and 6.

  • 5.33

    New hacks, `splitflap' and `romanboy'. Sonar now does asynchronous host name resolution. Improved Unicode support. Various minor fixes.

  • 5.35

    New hacks: DymaxionMap, Unicrud, EnergyStream, Raverhoop and Hydrostat. Added Windows 10 to BSOD. Better fonts in BSOD and MemScroller. Fixed rotation to work with the new iOS 8+ API. Pong is now playable.

  • 5.36

    New hacks "discoball", "cubetwist", "cubestack", "splodesic" and "hexstrut". Several new programs in "m6502". New "circles" mode in "rotzoomer". Better titles in "photopile". Various other fixes.

  • 5.37

    New hack, Vigilance. Updates to BSOD. Various bug fixes and performance updates.

  • 5.38

    New hack, Esper. BSOD now accepts Dunning-Krugerrands. Tweaks for iPhone X. Various minor updates and bug fixes.

  • 5.39

    New hacks, RazzleDazzle, Peepers, Crumbler and Maze3D. Various minor bug fixes.

  • 5.40

    New hacks: FilmLeader and VFeedback. GLPlanet blends between day and night maps at the dusk terminator. DymaxionMap animates sunlight across the flattened globe. Tessellimage can draw either Delaunay or Voronoi tilings. XAnalogTV includes test cards.

  • 5.41

    Plugged many memory leaks at exit. New hack, Handsy. Fixed Noof from displaying minimalistically. Rewrote Unknown Pleasures to be faster, and a true waterfall graph. BSOD Solaris improved. DVD added.

  • 5.43

    New hacks "GravityWell" and "DeepStars". "GLPlanet" now supports the Mercator projection. "Bouncing Cow" has mathematically ideal cows (spherical, frictionless). Foggy toasters. "Unknown Pleasures" can now use an image file as a clip mask.

  • 5.44

    New hacks: Gibson, Etruscan Venus and Scooter. New color options in Roman Boy, Projective Plane, Hypertorus and Klein. BSOD supports Tivo and Nintendo. Supports dark mode. Fixed image loading on iOS 13. Fixed rotation on iOS 13 (Apple incompatibly breaks rotation every two years as a matter of policy). Performance tweaks for Eruption, Fireworkx, Halftone, Halo, Moire2 and RD-Bomb. Various bug fixes.

  • 5.45

    New hacks: headroom, sphereeversion and beats. Shader updates to hypertorus. No more image-loading pause in glslideshow. BSOD supports GNOME. Various bug fixes.

  • 6.00

    Improved GLSL and GLES3 support: Phong shading in etruscanvenus, hypertorus, klein, projectiveplane, romanboy and sphereeversion. Updates to cubicgrid. Added cycle mode. Various minor bug fixes.

  • 6.02

    New hacks, Marbling Binaryhorizon. Updates to Atlantis and Headroom.

  • 6.03

    New hack, Squirtorus. Sphere Eversion now has corrugation-mode, and can evert the Earth. GL Planet is higher resolution, and displays time zones. Fixed drag-to-rotate, again.

  • 6.04

    New hacks, "Nakagin" and "Chompy Tower". Sliders for various "Speed" preferences are easier to use.

  • 6.06

    New hack, Hex Trail. Marbling works again. Adjusted some of the very old hacks, which were written when pixels were larger, to be more visible on today's higher rez displays.

  • 6.07

    New hacks: `droste', `skulloop', `papercube' and `cubocteversion'. Updates to `sphereeversion'. Various other minor bug fixes.

  • 6.09

    New hacks, kallisti and highvoltage. Formal-wear for headroom.

  • 6.10

    New hacks, dumpsterfire, hopffibration, platonicfolding and klondike. Rewrote the VT100 emulator for apple2 and phosphor. Supports inverse and DEC Special Graphics. BSOD supports systemd and bitlocker.

  • 6.13

    Minor bug fixes. Endgame displays a number of historical full chess games. GL Slideshow has more image-transition effects.

  • 6.14

    New shader-based savers: alienbeacon, batteredplanet, elementalring, fluxcore, gimbalharmonics, hexplasma, logarithmiccircles, neongravity, neontriangulator, protophore, selfreflect, skyline, stardome, starnest, stripeytorus, synthwavecity, topologica and truchetzoom. Better label wrapping in carousel and photopile. Fixed glslideshow preferences and title display. Clicking links in preferences opens in Safari again.

  • 6.15 · 31 Mar 2026

    This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included. New hacks, worldpieces, bestill, bubblecolors, darktransit, downfall, driftclouds, goldenapollian, noxfire, prococean, rigrekt, trainmandala, trizm and universeball. Higher resolution Earth imagery in glplanet, dymaxionmap sphereeversion, cubocteversion and platonicfolding. Text in right-to-left languages is rendered properly.

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