Animal Wallpapers for Your Phone

Birds of prey, big cats, reptiles, sea life and a few insects, nearly all in portrait close-up. Named designs include Golden Eagle Gaze, Majestic Bald Eagle and Barn Owl Gaze for birds; Black Panther Gaze, Lynx Golden Gaze and Feline Power for cats; Crocodile Eye and Blue Chameleon Close-up for reptiles; Shark Gaze, Lionfish Undersea and Cuttlefish Gaze underwater; and Dewy Mantis Portrait and Dragonfly Eye for insects. House cats appear too, in Black Cat Window and Cat Watching Snow. The pool holds 62 wallpapers in total.

Because small movement suits a portrait, and designs like Koi Pond, Arctic Fox Cub and Barn Owl Gaze are built around it. Twenty-seven of the 62 animal wallpapers are live, second only to the 3D page by count, and the motion is kept slight so it reads as alive rather than as a video clip. On iPhone the Live Photo plays on the Lock Screen when you wake the phone. On Android the loop runs muted on the Home Screen, with a still for the Lock Screen. Preview the motion free in the app.

Not on a current phone. Every animal wallpaper is composed at 1080 × 2400, the same tall 9:20 proportion as the screens on today's iPhones and most Android phones, and the subject is placed in the middle band so the face clears both the clock and the dock. If your phone has a different aspect ratio, iOS and Android scale the image to fill and trim the edges, not the centre. The Lock Screen preview in the app shows exactly what will be visible.