Three directions in the adrafinil/dantrolene language. All three keep the video preview (it is the app), surface the playback mode that was buried in Options, and demote Updates + Restart Agent from full-height menu rows to footer chrome.
Hero preview with name on a scrim (frees a whole text row), a tinted status card that answers "what is it doing right now," and one segmented control that surfaces the previously hidden Only-on-Lock-Screen mode. Toggles + Restart Agent move behind the gear; version chip in the footer doubles as the update surface.
Everything on one surface, nothing behind a disclosure: compact now-playing row with a real pause button, the playback scope, and the four toggles as tappable pills. Restart Agent shrinks to a footer icon. Shown with the update state — the version chip turns coral and names the version.
The live video fills the whole popover; controls float on glass. Transport arrows step the shuffle (prev / next wallpaper). Prettiest of the three and the least information-dense — settings still need a second page behind the gear, and legibility depends on the wallpaper underneath.
Broken concentric arcs around a core dot, straight from the Icon Composer artwork. Unmistakably Phosphene, reads at 17 px, and the top-right gap already leaves room for the update dot (right) without crowding.
Play triangle in a circle — communicates "video" instantly but is generic; a dozen utilities use some version of it. The safe choice, not the memorable one.
A display outline with a phosphene burst at its center — "light on your screen." Honest about being a wallpaper app, but the inner detail gets muddy at menu bar size.
The phosphene flash reduced to four rays and a core. Cleanest silhouette of the set, but loses the ring motif that ties it to the app icon.