iScreensaver Designer6.4.0

Name: iScreensaver Designer
Price: 69.00 $
Rating: 3 (5 reviews)

15 June 2020

Screensaver designer and editor.

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Overview

iScreensaver is the only single-machine solution that creates combination Image, Movie, Live Photo, and 3D Model screensavers for both Macintosh and Windows. iScreensaver Designer is truly cross-platform : edit on either Windows or Macintosh, and either version will create screensavers for both platforms.

Create once! Distribute across Windows 7 to 10 and macOS 10.11 El Captain to 10.14 Mojave.

The world's only cross-platform screensaver installation application.

What's new in iScreensaver Designer

Version 6.4.0:

New features:

Advanced Video / 3D playback engine: Our new playback engine has been rewritten from the ground up to use HTML5, CSS, MP4 / AVC, and WebGL engines.
3D model import - using standard GLTF / GLB file formats, import your 3D model with animation: view 3D Model Support.
Dark Mode: a new 'dark mode' look for built screensaver installers (all OSs), and optional Dark Mode support for iScreensaver Designer (macOS Mojave only).
Live Photos: automatically imports both the picture and video file from Live Photos (macOS only)

macOS changes:

iScreensaver Designer for Mac is a fully 64 bit app.
iScreensavers built for macOS are now 64 bit, using modern technology such as the Swift programming language.
iScreensaver supports macOS 10.11 thru 10.15: view System Requirements.
New!: With version 6.1, iScreensaver supports code-signing with the hardened runtime and notarization.

Improved features:

Photos.app integration: improved support for drag & drop and metadata import (macOS only).
Easy upgrade: Project files from version 4 or 5 can be easily loaded into Version 6.
Fully cross-platform: Design on Mac, build for Mac & Windows; Design on Windows, build for Windows & Mac. Still the world's only truly cross-platform screensaver development tool.
Overlays: Images & Text captions can use all XYZ motion effect animations.
Playback performance: Video playback is now fully hardware-accelerated on supported systems.

Deprecated or removed features:

Removed: Adobe / Macromedia Flash (SWF) support has been removed.
Removed: OpenGL is no longer needed or required.
Removed: Secondary (Alternate or "locked") sequences.

New license terms:

Subscription Pricing: our commercial / business licenses are offered as a one year term. New price and feature levels to meet your needs.
New Personal/Home license: a one-time purchase for light use at a bargain price.
As before, you may use and test iScreensaver without purchase in demonstration mode. In this mode, screensavers and screensaver installers built will expire. Text and images are will be watermarked with notices.
30 day money-back guarantee on all licenses. Buy with confidence.

10 Reviews of iScreensaver Designer

Rochade

29 June 2012

Version: 4.5.0

If you just want to create a screensaver for OS X, try the free QuartzComposer from the Developer Tools (Xcode). It is not hard to learn and free.

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Bought this app several years ago. They've released regular updates when OS or QT updates break functionality. Overall it works well. At first I thought it was really expensive but it's been years since I had to pay for it as the updates have been free. Overall I think it works well for creating cross platform screensavers.

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recently i donload to try it... simply ... DONT WORK and when i try to QUIT... i need force quit !! realbasic app really sucks.

I paid for this app a while back. It sucks. Money down the drain. Draconian licensing, Stupid a$$ messages all over the screensavers. A total waste. Never published one screensaver with it.

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Good app. and very easy to use... but must be improved. Otherwise the icon and image quality of the app. itself are very poor and look cheap (I mean the icons that are used inside the user interface, and the default icon that appear onto the installers), the icon in the dock is ok. I am very annoyed about the unlucky licencing arrangement and awful warnings and alerts on installation of screensavers... this yellow text advice is looking vulgar. A screen saver is supposed to be an elegant dress for our display not a terrific thing even if the company choose to do it shareware...) And I do not understand why the name of the user licence must appear by default if someone who have paid for the licence do not want it... I mean it is not exactly an elegant way to proceed.

Basic app. very slow. Limited instructions, does not mention to limit file size of photos. Don't understand the pricing structure. Could become more useful with a little tweaking here and there, mainly on the price. i.e., would be nice to actually resize artwork in the program itself. Did not test to give accurate stability so I gave a 4 for that since i did finish my project witout incedent.

iScreensaver .... can be summed up in one word....REALBASIC. Not a pretty word but sexy if you like clunky software that works more or less. The owners are awful proud of their software as reflected in the hienous prices they charge for it. The only way I can honestly reccomend the premium version is if you are on the crack pipe and need to diversify your habit.

A great little app...but WAY overpriced. I don't know what this company is thinking, but they need to serously reevaluate how much they're charging for each version. Anyone who buys the full version is either extraordinarily stupid or has more money than Bill Gates.

With all due respect, this is utter crapware. Purchased the non-profit version awhile back. Stupid licencing arrangement and ridiculous warnings and alerts on installation of screensavers -- nothing like harrassing and scaring the recipients and prospective users of a screensaver you've built! To top it off, the actual screensavers you can build SUCK. Transitions SUCK -- slow and ugly. The app is written in realbasic, and unfortunately like most apps written in realbasic, it SUCKS. Did I mention it SUCKS? There is actually a website out there that chronicles the suckiness of this software. I'm sure google will reveal all.

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