Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about Lively Wallpaper, and it has gotten 75 likes
Lively Wallpaper was added to AlternativeTo by southguo on Mar 6, 2020 and this page was last updated Jan 7, 2025.
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Top Positive Comment
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•Mar 18, 2020
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Minimalist, Convenient, all while staying in Low in CPU usage.
My mp4 video is playing im at 4%-7% 1080p. windows 10 is normally at 3% idle
-Can set it to pause in full screen, play audio in video, just pause audio when open app to fullscreen.
Check it out -u see that option GAMES it can PLAY GAMES!!!
Top Negative Comment
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•Sep 1, 2021
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Any installed live wallpapers just say file not found. No help anywhere, uninstalled.
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•Jul 15, 2023
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Lightweight animated desktop program. Load up whatever GIF, WEBM, etc. you want & let it go to work. Just be cognisant of using large files.
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•May 23, 2021
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It is simple to use and does exactly what I want it to do! It allows me to put up animated wallpapers on my desktop!
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•Nov 6, 2020
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When I got an new windows machine for christmas, I searched around if there is anything that can change the look and feel of my system, I couldn’t find an open sourced, free and user friendly solution to it easily. I scourged all over internet looking for such a solution, I couldn’t find one that I liked.
When I finally gave up on the hunt, a person by the name rockdanister posted his first release of lively in reddit. I was a bit skeptical about his work. Neverthless I gave it a try and as expected it was bad.
Over the coming months this one guy/girl kept on rolling out new updates with cool features, new looks and most importantly showed a commitment to sqaush bugs reported on github.
The support over on his discord channel is also superb, where 100s of people are always ready to help you out, whenever anyone gets stuck.
Eventhough later I found out many more applications which can do similar things, I still like lively and its strong one person dev team.
You are doing god’s work mate. Hope this application gets acquired by Windows and gets directly integrated into it.
9/10 - 1 point deducted because you are not putting a price tag on it.
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•Oct 14, 2020
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EASILY better than screen play, how do I know:
Image PC, install one, set a "WebGL fluid simulation" FROM HERE then "dance the mouse wildly" monitoring cpu/ram use..., then restore, install the other and do EXACT SAME TEST
One uses about 40% the resources of the other.
THE WINNER IS BY FAR "Lively Wallpaper"
[Edited by aazard, October 14]
[Edited by aazard, October 14]
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•Oct 13, 2020
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so easy and usefull and beutiful
What is Lively Wallpaper?
Free and open-source application for setting GIFs, videos and webpages as your desktop wallpaper and screensaver.
Features:
Ultrawide or multiple monitors? No problem.
Open Source: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS.) Made by the community for the community <3
Performance: Wallpaper pauses (~0% usage) when running fullscreen games or application
Modern & Friendly: Latest Windows 11 design and friendly user experience
Tools: Create music visualizers, widgets and much more using rich wallpaper development tools
Screensavers:
Lively supports Windows screensaver.
Any wallpaper can be used as screensaver.
Multiple monitor supported.
Automation:
Lively can be controlled with command line arguments from terminal.
Integrate with other languages like Python or scripting software AutoHotKey.
Lively API:
Powerful set of API for developers to create interactive wallpapers.
Get hardware readings, audio graph, music information.
Machine learning:
Leverage Machine Learning inference to create dynamic wallpapers.
More Features
Minimal webpage renderer powered by chromium.
Hardware accelerated video playback using mpv/vlc player with customizable video filters.
Easy to use; Just drag'n'drop media or webpages into lively to set as wallpaper.
Latest Windows 11 design using WinUI 3 + WindowsAppSDK framework.
Efficient, Lively is native application designed for Windows.
Fully opensource & free; no blackmagic, no features behind paywall.
Shadertoy.com urls are supported as wallpaper.
Performance
Wallpaper playback pauses when fullscreen application/games run on the machine (~0% cpu, gpu usage).
Set wallpaper playback rules based on running foreground application.
Can be set to pause wallpaper when running on battery power (laptops.)
Wallpaper automatically pauses when running remote desktop session.
POX added Lively Wallpaper as alternative to Unscene
christoph-altmann-dev added Lively Wallpaper as alternative to My Wallpapers
Dani John 
Comments and Reviews
Minimalist, Convenient, all while staying in Low in CPU usage.
My mp4 video is playing im at 4%-7% 1080p. windows 10 is normally at 3% idle -Can set it to pause in full screen, play audio in video, just pause audio when open app to fullscreen.
Check it out -u see that option GAMES it can PLAY GAMES!!!
Any installed live wallpapers just say file not found. No help anywhere, uninstalled.
Lightweight animated desktop program. Load up whatever GIF, WEBM, etc. you want & let it go to work. Just be cognisant of using large files.
It is simple to use and does exactly what I want it to do! It allows me to put up animated wallpapers on my desktop!
When I got an new windows machine for christmas, I searched around if there is anything that can change the look and feel of my system, I couldn’t find an open sourced, free and user friendly solution to it easily. I scourged all over internet looking for such a solution, I couldn’t find one that I liked. When I finally gave up on the hunt, a person by the name rockdanister posted his first release of lively in reddit. I was a bit skeptical about his work. Neverthless I gave it a try and as expected it was bad.
Over the coming months this one guy/girl kept on rolling out new updates with cool features, new looks and most importantly showed a commitment to sqaush bugs reported on github.
The support over on his discord channel is also superb, where 100s of people are always ready to help you out, whenever anyone gets stuck.
Eventhough later I found out many more applications which can do similar things, I still like lively and its strong one person dev team.
You are doing god’s work mate. Hope this application gets acquired by Windows and gets directly integrated into it.
9/10 - 1 point deducted because you are not putting a price tag on it.
EASILY better than screen play, how do I know:
Image PC, install one, set a "WebGL fluid simulation" FROM HERE then "dance the mouse wildly" monitoring cpu/ram use..., then restore, install the other and do EXACT SAME TEST
One uses about 40% the resources of the other.
THE WINNER IS BY FAR "Lively Wallpaper"
[Edited by aazard, October 14]
[Edited by aazard, October 14]
so easy and usefull and beutiful