RainWallpaper Alternatives

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

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

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RainWallpaper

Paid • Proprietary
Desktop Customization Tool
Windows

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Rainmeter
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Free • Open Source
Desktop Customization Tool
System Information Utility
Windows
30 alternatives to Rainmeter
Rainmeter allows you to display customizable skins on your desktop, from hardware usage meters to fully functional audio visualizers. You are only limited by your imagination and creativity.
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Rainmeter Features
Widgets
Customizable
Customize skin
CPU Monitoring
Live Wallpapers
Custom widgets
Colored Text
Skinnable
Hardware Monitoring
Desktop Widget
Wallpaper Engine
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Paid • Proprietary
Shell Extension
Windows
Android
Steam
39 alternatives to Wallpaper Engine
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!.
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Wallpaper Engine Features
Live Wallpapers
Configurable
Visualize Music
Video wallpaper
User contributed content
Built-in editor
Steam Workshop
ScreenPlay
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Free • Open Source
Shell Extension
Mac
Windows
Steam
34 alternatives to ScreenPlay
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).
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ScreenPlay Features
Live Wallpapers
Video wallpaper
Widgets
Steam Workshop
Visualize Music
Wave Lines Live Wallpaper
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Free • Open Source
Android
F-Droid
35 alternatives to Wave Lines Live Wallpaper
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.

Wave Lines Live Wallpaper has no features, suggest some!
WinDynamicDesktop
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Free • Open Source
Desktop Customization Tool
Windows
23 alternatives to WinDynamicDesktop
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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Dynamic Theme
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
9 alternatives to Dynamic Theme
Dynamic background and/or lock screen picture with daily Bing or Windows Spotlight pictures, one Bing or Windows Spotlight picture or personal pictures.

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GoodPaper Wallpapers
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Free • Proprietary
Windows
15 alternatives to GoodPaper Wallpapers
GoodPaper downloads the best wallpapers to your PC from your favorite characters, artists, games, phrases and themes.

GoodPaper Wallpapers has no features, suggest some!
weebp
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Free • Open Source
Windows
20 alternatives to weebp
free and open-source wallpaper engine, set any window as your wallpaper.

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Discontinued
The project seems still developed, but latest version, 0.6.1, was released in November 2018. It can be still downloaded from GitHub.
Video Paper
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Free • Proprietary
Shell Extension
Desktop Customization Tool
Windows
25 alternatives to Video Paper
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.
Brilli Wallpaper Changer
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Freemium • Proprietary
Windows
44 alternatives to Brilli Wallpaper Changer
*** Windows Central : "Brilli Wallpaper Changer is the Universal Windows 10 app you have been waiting for!" ***.

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ScreenPlay Features

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