Desktop Live Wallpapers Alternatives

Desktop Live Wallpapers is described as 'brings animated wallpapers to your desktop! Load all your personal video files into this app and set it as your wallpaper or download from collections of hundreds of beautiful animated wallpapers' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Desktop Live Wallpapers for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Steam, Linux and Android apps. The best Desktop Live Wallpapers alternative is Lively Wallpaper, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Desktop Live Wallpapers are Wallpaper Engine, Variety Wallpaper Changer, ScreenPlay and WinDynamicDesktop.

Desktop Live Wallpapers alternatives are mainly Shell Extensions but may also be Desktop Customization Tools. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Desktop Live Wallpapers.

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Lively Wallpaper
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Free • Open Source
Windows
18 Lively Wallpaper alternatives
Free and open-source application for setting GIFs, Videos and Webpages as your desktop wallpaper and screensaver!
- - Lively Wallpaper is the most popular Windows alternative to Desktop Live Wallpapers.
- - Lively Wallpaper is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Desktop Live Wallpapers.
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Lively Wallpaper Features
1. Ad-freeLively Wallpaper doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
2. Support for scriptingLively Wallpaper supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
Live Wallpapers
Widgets
Support for HD videos
Wallpaper Engine
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Paid • Proprietary
Shell Extension
Windows
Android
Steam
40 Wallpaper Engine alternatives
Use stunning live wallpapers on your Windows desktop. Animate your own images to create new wallpapers or import videos and websites and share them with others!.
- - Wallpaper Engine is the most popular Android alternative to Desktop Live Wallpapers.
- - Wallpaper Engine is the most popular commercial alternative to Desktop Live Wallpapers.
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Wallpaper Engine Features
Live Wallpapers
Configurable
Video wallpaper
Visualize Music
User contributed content
Steam Workshop
Built-in editor
Variety Wallpaper Changer
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Free • Open Source
Linux
44 Variety Wallpaper Changer alternatives
Variety is a wallpaper changer for Ubuntu which is featureful, yet slim and very easy to use. It can automatically download wallpapers from various online sources, allows rotating them on a regular interval or on demand, and provides easy to use ways to separate the great images...
- - Variety Wallpaper Changer is the most popular Linux alternative to Desktop Live Wallpapers.
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Variety Wallpaper Changer Features
Facebook integration
Image Filters
ScreenPlay
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Free • Open Source
Shell Extension
Mac
Windows
Steam
35 ScreenPlay alternatives
ScreenPlay is an Open Source cross-platform app for displaying Video Wallpaper & Widgets. It is written in modern C++20/Qt6/QML. It currently supports Windows and macOS (x64 and arm).
- - ScreenPlay is the most popular Mac alternative to Desktop Live Wallpapers.
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ScreenPlay Features
Live Wallpapers
Video wallpaper
Widgets
Steam Workshop
Visualize Music
WinDynamicDesktop
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Free • Open Source
Desktop Customization Tool
Windows
23 WinDynamicDesktop alternatives
This app ports the Dynamic Desktop feature from macOS Mojave to Windows 10. It uses your location to get the times of sunrise and sunset each day, and rotates through the 16 Mojave wallpaper images throughout the day and night.
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Wave Lines Live Wallpaper
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Free • Open Source
Android
F-Droid
35 Wave Lines Live Wallpaper alternatives
A simple, unobstrusive live wallpaper showing slowly moving wave lines. You can choose a color theme, build your own, change if the lines should grow and shrink or if they should have a uniform width. The lines may swing in harmony or each line independently.
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xlivebg
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Free • Open Source
Linux
20 xlivebg alternatives
xlivebg is a live wallpaper framework, and collection of live wallpapers, for the X window system. xlivebg is independent of window managers and desktop environments, and should work with any of them, or even with no window manager at all.
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xlivebg Features
Debian package compatible
Live Wallpapers
OPENGL
Add a screenshot
GoodPaper Wallpapers
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
15 GoodPaper Wallpapers alternatives
GoodPaper downloads the best wallpapers to your PC from your favorite characters, artists, games, phrases and themes.
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RainWallpaper
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Paid • Proprietary
Desktop Customization Tool
Windows
26 RainWallpaper alternatives
RainWallpaper is a powerful live wallpaper engine that allows you to use various types of customizable animated wallpapers on your Windows desktop, including 3D and 2D animations, websites, videos, with mouse interaction and cool effects, and with minimum cpu and ram usage.
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RainWallpaper Features
Configurable
Video wallpaper
WinTweaker
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
6 WinTweaker alternatives
Customizes system parameters according to your preferences by tweaking File Explorer, Desktop, Start, Taskbar and Notification area.
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Splashify
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Paid • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
41 Splashify alternatives
Choose from thousands of stunning photos taken by amazing photographers from around the world and set them as your desktop background in a single click.
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Splashify Features
1. Support for Multiple MonitorsSplashify supports the use of multiple displays.
Support for HD videos
Video Paper
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Free • Proprietary
Shell Extension
Desktop Customization Tool
Windows
25 Video Paper alternatives
Set a video as your wallpaper.
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Video Paper Features
1. PortableVideo Paper can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.