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Kushalgouda Patil

Streakwall

iOS lock screen wallpaper showing a 15-column dot grid of GitHub contributions for the year, colored by intensity, with a contributions and percent-of-year readout at the bottom
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A full-year GitHub contribution graph, rendered as a 15-column dot grid and turned into an iOS lock-screen wallpaper — each dot is a day, colored by contribution intensity, with today highlighted and a “contributions · % of year” readout at the bottom.

You don’t need any code to use this — just your GitHub username and the Shortcuts app on your iPhone.

1. Get your wallpaper URL

https://github-contribution-wallpaper.vercel.app/api?user=YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME&width=1179&height=2556

Replace YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME with your GitHub handle. Adjust width/height to match your device if it isn’t an iPhone 14/15/16 (the default 1179x2556 covers those).

2. Set up daily auto-updating via Shortcuts

  1. Open the Shortcuts app on your iPhone.
  2. Go to the Automation tab → + → Create Personal Automation → Time of Day, pick a time (e.g. every morning), set it to repeat Daily, then choose Run Immediately → Create New Shortcut.
  3. Add the Get Contents of URL action, and paste your URL from step 1.
  4. Add the Set Wallpaper Photo action underneath it, and choose Lock Screen.
  5. Tap the arrow (→) on the Set Wallpaper Photo action to show its options, and disable both Crop to Subject and Show Preview — this lets it apply silently without cropping the image or asking for confirmation each time.

Built on Next.js’s App Router, with the image rendered on the edge via @vercel/og and contribution data pulled live from GitHub’s GraphQL API (cached for an hour, no database).