Enhance your Windows desktop with animated wallpapers like 3D, 2D, videos and more. Customize with a built-in editor, share via Steam Workshop, and stay ad-free with companion app support for Android.
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Lively Wallpaper AlternativesWallpapers Hubs and other similar apps like Lively Wallpaper
Lively Wallpaper is described as 'Free and open-source application for setting GIFs, videos and webpages as your desktop wallpaper and screensaver' and is a popular Wallpapers Hub in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Lively Wallpaper for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and F-Droid apps. The best Lively Wallpaper alternative is Wallpaper Engine. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Sucrose Wallpaper Engine or Paperize. Other great apps like Lively Wallpaper are Solace, Wallper, ScreenPlay and TranslucentTB.
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Alternatives list
62 Wallpaper Engine alternatives
Automatically changes Mac appearance using real-time weather, sunlight, and time data for light and dark modes, dynamic wallpapers, and color temperature, with on-device privacy, menu bar access, no subscriptions, and no analytics for seamless daily comfort.
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Sucrose is a versatile wallpaper engine that brings a wide range of interactive wallpapers to life on your desktop. With light and dark theme options, you can choose the appearance that suits your personal preferences.
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59 Paperize alternativesPaperize is a dynamic wallpaper changer application built for Android using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Material 3.
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32 Wallper alternativesDelivers live 4K wallpapers for Mac, supporting H.264/H.265 playback across multi-displays, customizable Smart Library filters, device management for up to three devices, Apple Silicon compatibility, music sync, lock screen and custom screensavers, and secure app sandboxing.
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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).
14 TranslucentTB alternativesTranslucentTB is a lightweight utility that makes the Windows taskbar translucent/transparent.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Windows
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HydraPaper is a wallpaper manager, specifically designed to work around the lack of functionality of many desktop environments to set a different wallpaper for each monitor in a multi monitor setup. It accomplishes this by scaling and merging different wallpapers into a single...
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Layered WallPaper allows You to create multi-layered parallax wallpapers. Each layer moves with Your mouse cursor, creating beautiful parallax effect.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Windows
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Flexible video wallpaper utility for wlroots-based Wayland compositors, enables looped video backgrounds via mpv, supports sway and others, multi-monitor setups, CLI configuration, aspect ratio options, startup integration, low resource usage, and local or remote files.
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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I like screenplay because it has live wallpaper.