Live Desktop Alternatives

Live Desktop is described as 'Live wallpaper for your Mac desktop' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Live Desktop for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Steam, Android and iPhone apps. The best Live Desktop alternative is Lively Wallpaper, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Live Desktop are Wallpaper Engine, ScreenPlay, WinDynamicDesktop and Sucrose Wallpaper Engine.

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

Live Desktop

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Shell Extension

Live wallpaper for your Mac desktop.

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Lively Wallpaper
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Free • Open Source
Wallpapers Hub
Windows
19 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 Live Desktop.
- - Lively Wallpaper is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Live Desktop.
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Lively Wallpaper Features
1. Live WallpapersLively Wallpaper offers a selection of dynamic, interactive, and animated wallpapers.
2. Ad-freeLively Wallpaper doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
3. Support for scriptingLively Wallpaper supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
4. Wallpaper CyclingLively Wallpaper allows users to automatically switch between different wallpapers at specified time intervals or randomly.
Support for HD videos
Widgets
Wallpaper Engine
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Paid • Proprietary
Wallpapers Hub
Shell Extension
Windows
Android
Steam
41 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 Live Desktop.
- - Wallpaper Engine is the most popular commercial alternative to Live Desktop.
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Wallpaper Engine Features
1. Live WallpapersWallpaper Engine offers a selection of dynamic, interactive, and animated wallpapers.
2. Video WallpaperWallpaper Engine supports setting video files as wallpapers.
Configurable
Visualize Music
User contributed content
Steam Workshop
Built-in editor
ScreenPlay
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Free • Open Source
Wallpapers Hub
Shell Extension
Mac
Windows
Steam
36 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 Live Desktop.
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ScreenPlay Features
1. Live WallpapersScreenPlay offers a selection of dynamic, interactive, and animated wallpapers.
2. Video WallpaperScreenPlay supports setting video files as wallpapers.
3. PortableScreenPlay can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
4. Wallpaper CyclingScreenPlay allows users to automatically switch between different wallpapers at specified time intervals or randomly.
Widgets
Steam Workshop
Visualize Music
WinDynamicDesktop
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Free • Open Source
Wallpapers Hub
Desktop Customization Tool
Windows
24 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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WinDynamicDesktop Features
1. Dark ModeWinDynamicDesktop supports dark mode for comfortable usage in low light conditions.
2. Ad-freeWinDynamicDesktop doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
3. LightweightWinDynamicDesktop consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
4. PortableWinDynamicDesktop can be used from a USB stick or similar with no prior installation.
Sucrose Wallpaper Engine
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Free • Open Source
Wallpapers Hub
Windows
41 Sucrose Wallpaper Engine alternatives
Sucrose is a versatile wallpaper engine that brings life to your desktop with a wide range of interactive themes.
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Sucrose Wallpaper Engine Features
1. Live WallpapersSucrose Wallpaper Engine offers a selection of dynamic, interactive, and animated wallpapers.
2. Wallpaper CyclingSucrose Wallpaper Engine allows users to automatically switch between different wallpapers at specified time intervals or randomly.
3. Video WallpaperSucrose Wallpaper Engine supports setting video files as wallpapers.
4. Ad-freeSucrose Wallpaper Engine doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
Wave Lines Live Wallpaper
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Free • Open Source
Wallpapers Hub
Android
F-Droid
36 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
21 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.
- - xlivebg is the most popular Linux alternative to Live Desktop.
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xlivebg Features
1. Live Wallpapersxlivebg offers a selection of dynamic, interactive, and animated wallpapers.
Debian package compatible
OPENGL
Add a screenshot
RainWallpaper
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Paid • Proprietary
Wallpapers Hub
Desktop Customization Tool
Windows
27 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
1. Video WallpaperRainWallpaper supports setting video files as wallpapers.
2. Live WallpapersRainWallpaper offers a selection of dynamic, interactive, and animated wallpapers.
Configurable
WinTweaker
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Paid • Proprietary
Windows
7 WinTweaker alternatives
Customizes system parameters according to your preferences by tweaking File Explorer, Desktop, Start, Taskbar and Notification area.
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Video Paper
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Free • Proprietary
Shell Extension
Desktop Customization Tool
Windows
26 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.
weebp
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Free • Open Source
Windows
21 weebp alternatives
free and open-source wallpaper engine, set any window as your wallpaper.
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weebp Features
1. Live Wallpapersweebp offers a selection of dynamic, interactive, and animated wallpapers.
Discontinued
The project seems still developed, but latest version, 0.6.1, was released in November 2018. It can be still downloaded from GitHub.
AwesomeWallpaper
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Free • Open Source
Wallpapers Hub
Windows
17 AwesomeWallpaper alternatives
AwesomeWallpaper plays videos, shows images and system information on your desktop wallpaper. It supports next modes:
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AwesomeWallpaper Features
1. Video WallpaperAwesomeWallpaper supports setting video files as wallpapers.