Changelog

New loops are added to the library regularly — with a Founder's Lifetime, every one is yours. App updates land here too.

Version 1.3.1

August 2026

• Loops already in your library now show their names too — Oil Bloom, Ghost Garden, Ascension — instead of their file names.

Version 1.3.0 — Names, categories, and a slower drift

August 2026

• Every loop has a name. Soap Bloom, Gilded Eye, Room for a Cloud — and the search box finally finds them.
• Eight categories — Molten, Idols, Bubbles, Dreamscapes, Gilded, Chambers, Silk and Clouds. Click a category to browse it, click it again to watch just that category.
• The catalog knows what you already have, and shows you what you don't.
• Playback controls in every player, not only Theater — including speed, while you're watching.
• Slow it right down — speeds now reach 0.1×.
• Choose your screens for Desktop Wallpaper instead of all of them at once.

Version 1.2.2 — Screensaver reliability

July 2026

• Fixed a case where Surrealism could point the system screensaver at the wrong copy of itself if more than one copy was on the Mac — leaving the screensaver silently not running.

Version 1.2.0 — Automatic updates

July 2026

• Automatic updates — Surrealism now updates itself. You'll be asked first, and you can turn this off in Settings.

Version 1.1.4 — Wallpaper speed from the menu bar

July 2026

• Slow the Desktop Wallpaper straight from its menu-bar icon — a new Speed menu with Normal, 0.75×, 0.5×, and 0.25×, no need to open the app window.

Version 1.1.3 — Smoother hero

July 2026

• Fixed a brief flash of another loop in the hero banner right before it cross-faded to the next one — transitions are now clean everywhere the loops play.

Version 1.1.1 — Polish

July 2026

• New Playback menu in the menu bar — every playback shortcut, self-documented.
• A proper Settings panel (⌘,) for power courtesy and the usage-data toggle.
• The Playback panel is now collapsible with an at-a-glance summary, and screensaver setup lives inside it.
• Cross-fade and speed became precise steppers; frosted-glass hero buttons.

Version 1.1 — Theater & Desktop Wallpaper

July 2026

• Theater — play your rotation full-screen (or windowed) inside the app, with on-screen transport controls and keyboard shortcuts.
• Desktop Wallpaper — your loops play behind your desktop icons, on every display, with a menu-bar control for pause, next, and stop.
• Playback speed — slow the motion down, from full speed to quarter-speed drift.
• Battery courtesy — the wallpaper pauses on battery or when your Mac runs hot (optional).
• The screensaver now honors your Choose Loops rotation, shuffle, cross-fade, and speed settings.
• Smoother transitions — fixed a brief flash at loop boundaries.
• New Share anonymous usage data toggle in the Playback panel — feature-usage counts only, off with one click.

Playback controls

July 2026

• New Playback panel: Shuffle for a fresh order each time, and an adjustable Cross-fade length.
• Choose Loops — pick which loops stay in rotation straight from their thumbnails, no file names.
• Read more in the launch note on the Journal.

Version 1.0 — Launch

July 2026

• Surreal video screensaver for macOS, with seamless cross-fades between loops.
• Free to install with starter loops; the Founder's Lifetime unlocks the full library.
• Add your own loops, multi-display playback, and fully offline once downloaded.