About us

A gallery of original gradient backgrounds — generated, checked by eye and filtered for clean color, so every wallpaper looks as good on your screen as it did in our heads.

Zhanna, co-founder of BackgroundMax, with a puppy
A word from our co-founder

Beautiful backgrounds, better mood.

Beautiful backgrounds lift our mood. We look at our phones and laptops dozens of times a day, and the colors we see there quietly shape how we feel — a calm gradient in the morning, a warm glow in the evening. A background you love brings a small dose of joy every time you unlock your screen.

We created BackgroundMax to make finding your background easy and enjoyable. Close to a million options are gathered here like in a gallery, neatly sorted into collections by color, mood and style, and every wallpaper comes at the exact size its name promises: Full HD, 4K, vertical for phones.

We hope you find your favorite here — the one that makes you smile every time you see it.

— Zhanna, Co-founder

Ksenia, iOS developer and co-founder of BackgroundMax
A word from our iOS developer

Simple to use, beautiful every day.

When we started on the BackgroundMax app for iPhone, I wanted it to feel as effortless as picking up your phone. Open it, find a background you love, set it — that is the whole idea, and every screen in the app is built to keep it that way.

The second goal was just as simple: a beautiful background for every day. Something fresh for your home screen and lock screen, made at the right size for your iPhone and as clean in color as everything else you see here.

Simple to use, beautiful to look at. If the app ever gets in the way of that, it is my job to fix it.

— Ksenia, iOS Developer & Co-founder

BackgroundMax in numbers

805,336unique wallpapersevery one generated from scratch
4246collectionsshaped by real search demand
4251galleriescolor pages and collections
35visual stylesmesh, aura, silk, 3D and more
11formats16:10, 4K, Full HD, square, vertical
673,408palette colorseach with its HEX code
87 KBaverage file72,083 MB in total
0stock photos100% original color

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