Editor's Note
Why this site exists.
Most people change their wallpaper less often than they change their toothbrush, and stare at it roughly eighty times a day. We started this site because the gap between how much a wallpaper matters and how much thought goes into picking one has gotten embarrassing — and because the tools that claim to fix it mostly do not.
A wallpaper has three jobs: it has to read at a glance, it has to keep the icons legible without the system forcing a dark blur over the top of it, and it has to still feel like yours after the sixth time you have seen it that morning. Anything that does not serve one of those jobs is decoration, and decoration is what we are trying to filter out.
These are editorial opinions, not lab scores — no rubric, no invented rating out of five. If you have a tool we should be looking at, write to us at [email protected]. There is a list, it is getting longer, and we are working through it.