Aerial is a macOS screensaver that lets you play videos from Apple's tvOS screensaver. This includes classic Aerial videos shot over various cities and locations (New York, San Francisco, China...), Earth videos from the ISS, and the new underwater videos introduced in tvOS 13. Starting with version 2.0, Aerial also includes videos from 3rd parties that kindly shared them, and you can also now add your own!

Aerial is completely free and open source. You can follow its development on GitHub, and even participate if you want. You don't have to be a developer, we always need help when it comes to translations in various languages, check here for more information. Compatible with macOS 10.12 and later (including Sonoma and Apple Silicon).

What's New

  • Hopefully fix the issues most people have been having with version 3.5.0. If you still have issues please let me know.

Please note:

Because of new restrictions in macOS Sonoma/Sequoia, some features (location, shell integration, etc) now require AerialCompanion to run in your menu bar in order to work.

It can be downloaded here.

More videos

The latest videos from tvOS 15 are now available in Aerial 3.0, including videos from Patagonia, Grand Canyon, Scotland and Iceland.

A simplified yet more powerful UI

Aerial 3 refines the UI introduced previously by simplifying it. All options are directly accessible now, and more importantly, you can make multiple selections of things you want to watch. Want to see videos from Iceland and Patagonia? Two clicks will do it now! You can quickly change what you want to see and Aerial will react to it, updating your cache as needed.

Support for storing your videos pretty much anywhere

Thanks to Apple's changes to macOS Monterey, Aerial can now again let you pick where you want to store your cache folder. This includes internal drives, external drives and network shares.

And if you have multiple users on the same computer, you can finally share the same cache. Just specify the same location on each, and you are good to go.

More overlays. Including Apple Music and Spotify

New overlays are available to be displayed, including support for both Apple Music and Spotify, to see what's currently playing in the background while your screensaver is playing.

You can even see the album art

New video packs from Josh and Hal

On top of the 20 videos that Joshua Michaels & Hal Bergman gifted to Aerial, they are also releasing new video sets from Monterey, New York and the American Southwest.

More than 4 hours of video content, all in 4K, mastered to both look great and take as little space as possible. Those videos are similarly paced to the "classic" Aerials from Apple, so they just look right at home in Aerial.