Elfie Wallpapers
Free Christmas wallpapers for Mac
Twenty-four hand-painted winter scenes starring Pipkin, the elf from Elfie. Eight are free to download in 4K. The rest unlock one a day in December.
Set it from System Settings
Download a wallpaper, then open System Settings and choose Wallpaper. Click Add Photo, pick the file from your Downloads folder, and it becomes your desktop picture. Choose Fill Screen so it covers the whole display.
Or straight from Finder
Find the image in Finder, Control-click it and choose Set Desktop Picture. With more than one display, drag the Finder window to the screen you want before you do it, or set each one in System Settings.
All 24 Elfie wallpapers
Click any picture for a closer look.
Eight favourites are free to download here in 3840×2160, for personal use. The other sixteen are Pipkin's to give: find him in Elfie, the advent calendar for your Mac, and each day's wallpaper is yours with one click.
Get one new wallpaper every day with Pipkin.
$7 one-time, $5 with EARLYBIRD until Nov 30.
macOS 13 or later · Apple silicon and Intel · the download is free, a license unlocks it
Questions
How do I set a wallpaper on Mac?
Open System Settings, choose Wallpaper, click Add Photo and pick the image you downloaded. You can also Control-click the image file in Finder and choose Set Desktop Picture.
What size are they?
The free downloads are 3840×2160 pixels (4K, 16:9) JPEG files. That is sharp on MacBook, iMac and most external displays; macOS scales the picture to fill the screen. Inside Elfie the wallpapers are 5120×2880 and are cropped to fit each display.
Are they free?
Eight of the 24 are free to download from this page for personal use on your own devices. The other 16 unlock inside Elfie, one each day from December 1 to 24, when you find the elf.
What is Elfie?
Elfie is a Mac menu bar app for December. Every day from December 1 to 24 an elf called Pipkin hides somewhere new on your screen. Find him and you get a joke or fun fact and that day's wallpaper. It costs $7 once for one Mac, or $12 for five.