One thing to note, though: Backdrops mostly only offers portrait wallpapers, making it ideal for the iPhone, but not for the iPad or the Mac. Backdrops is available for free on the App Store on iOS ...

The wallpaper showcases the game’s two protagonists, Naoe and Yasuke, and is available for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go plug into the Animus.

Pearce’s app combines the best of both kinds of default Apple wallpapers by taking a photo, desaturating it, and overlaying a colorful gradient. You could do something similar in a photo editor, but ...

It’s an ideal choice if your environment is quiet since you won’t have to worry about background noise filtering in.