John's Background Switcher AlternativesWallpapers Hubs and other similar apps like John's Background Switcher

John's Background Switcher is described as 'John’s Background Switcher (or JBS for short) periodically changes the wallpaper on your computer (like every hour or every day) to something interesting. JBS sits in your system tray (down by the clock) and changes your background at the time interval of your choosing' and is a popular Wallpapers Hub in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to John's Background Switcher for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Web-based apps. The best John's Background Switcher alternative is Variety Wallpaper Changer, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like John's Background Switcher are Muzei, Wallpaper Wizard, Irvue and Splashify.

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  1. Variety Wallpaper Changer icon

    Variety Wallpaper Changer

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    Variety is a wallpaper changer for Ubuntu which is featureful, yet slim and very easy to use. It can automatically download wallpapers from various online sources, allows rotating them on a regular interval or on demand, and provides easy to use ways to separate the great images...

    46 Variety Wallpaper Changer alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    This is the one! Free, no bull and the randomizer actually allows you to say to yourself: "Oh, I haven't seen this one since I added it to my gallery! I knew I had it in my gallery!" It uses a way better randomizer unlike many others (including Window's built-in bs) that just repeat the images depending on the cheap time of day randomizing algo. This is a must have tool.

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    • Most users think Variety Wallpaper Changer is a great John's Background Switcher alternative.

    • Variety Wallpaper Changer is the most popular Linux alternative to John's Background Switcher.

    • Variety Wallpaper Changer is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to John's Background Switcher.

    • Variety Wallpaper Changer is Free and Open SourceJohn's Background Switcher is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Muzei

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    Muzei is a live wallpaper that gently refreshes your home screen each day with famous works of art. It also recedes into the background, blurring and dimming artwork to keep your icons and widgets in the spotlight.

    56 Muzei alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Android
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    • Muzei is the most popular Android alternative to John's Background Switcher.

    • Muzei is Free and Open SourceJohn's Background Switcher is Freemium and Proprietary
    • Muzei is CustomizableJohn's Background Switcher is not according to our users
  4. Wallpaper Wizard icon

    Wallpaper Wizard

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    Wallpaper Wizard is a wallpaper changer with the unlimited access to the private collection of 100,000 HD wallpapers.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Wallpaper Wizard is the most popular Mac alternative to John's Background Switcher.

    • Wallpaper Wizard is Freemium and ProprietaryJohn's Background Switcher is also Freemium and Proprietary
  5. Irvue icon

    Irvue

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    Thousands of stunning high-resolutions photos from Unsplash on your Mac. Enjoy new artistic wallpapers everyday with this small application, which lives in your menu bar.

    17 Irvue alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    Splashify

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    Choose from thousands of stunning photos taken by amazing photographers from around the world and set them as your desktop background in a single click.

    40 Splashify alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Splashify is the most popular Windows alternative to John's Background Switcher.

    • Splashify is the most popular commercial alternative to John's Background Switcher.

    • Splashify is Paid and ProprietaryJohn's Background Switcher is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Splashy

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    Breathtaking, auto changing wallpaper app for all devices!.

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    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
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    • Splashy is the most popular iPhone alternative to John's Background Switcher.

    • Splashy is Freemium and ProprietaryJohn's Background Switcher is also Freemium and Proprietary
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    Wallpaper Cycler

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    Wallpaper Cycler is an easy to use, yet powerful desktop wallpaper manager and changer to get rid of that boring static wallpaper on your desktop. You can change the wallpaper with a specific delay or at specific times.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  11. QuickWall

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    QuickWall was initialy launched as a wallpaper app that would set wallpapers directly from the commandline. Later due to a lot of requests from users , a theme option was added which uses pywal to generate themes from the wallpapers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    WinWallhaven

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    WinWallhaven is one of the most loved wallpaper communities on the web—high-quality images, thoughtful tagging, powerful filters, and a free API focused entirely on wallpapers. While there have been Windows apps for wallhaven in the past, many are outdated, clunky, or built on...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  13. EvJO Wallpaper Changer icon

    EvJO Wallpaper Changer

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    "EvJO Wallpaper Changer" is a wallpaper manager that can change your background images at every startup, once a day or at regular time intervals.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  14. Wallpaper Slideshow LT icon

    Wallpaper Slideshow LT

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    Wallpaper Slideshow is a wallpaper changer, a great utility for displaying your favorite photos as your desktop wallpaper. Wallpaper Slideshow offers you complete control on your wallpapers collection and allows you to easily set your favorite images (JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BMP)...

    27 Wallpaper Slideshow LT alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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