Nice background renders but screen saver lacking, no support site.

In a nutshell: Though the app does what it says it will do, and does it fairly well (the day and night Earth images are indeed beautiful), I would give the software a higher rating of 4 stars or more if the companion screen saver, downloadable directly from the developers website, would function properly and that there was at minimum email support for this app.

The desktop background part of the app works well. The preferences let one change view zoom levels, latitude, angle of view, X and Y offset on youre screen and finally sun atmosphere reflection which gives a glow to the circumference of earth, especially with the night view. The super imposed satellite cloud coverage images also add a nice touch. This “part” of the app works out well and installation from the app store went well…but...

One thing that you may have trouble with, as was my case, is the separately available companion screen saver portion of the software. On system 10.10.5 the screensaver product (which only functions when the app is installed) does not work and gives an error stating “You cannot use the DesktopEarth screen saver with this version of OS X". The bare-bones website has no contact information nor help or FAQ to let you know whats going on. You are, shall we say, left in the dark as to how one can resolve this issue. That said, the app will be staying on my machine but it would be nice to have the screen saver part of this software combo working.

Mad@NCAA about DesktopEarth