When I’ve seen people use programs that randomly display images from the internet as their desktop background in the past, I’ve been very displeased with the results. The images are usually very strange or too specific to one category and just doesn’t fit my taste. And with Windows, software like that tends to be questionable to begin with.

Desktoptopia takes a slightly more refined approach: a small Menu Bar application that lets you quickly go to the previous or next background, see the title of the current background, and assign a rating. You can change the time interval at which the backgrounds swap out, and pause if you find one you really like.

What makes Desktoptopia pleasant is you “subscribe” to categories, so you can just uncheck something if it’s not in your fancy. I’m surprised at the high quality and uniqueness of the images and have been enjoying it for a few weeks now.

Desktoptopia is free for Mac with a beta for PC.