Video Paper Alternatives
Video Paper is described as 'Set a video as your wallpaper' and is a Shell Extension in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Video Paper for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Steam, Linux and Android apps. The best Video Paper alternative is Lively Wallpaper, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Video Paper are Wallpaper Engine, ScreenPlay, WinDynamicDesktop and Wave Lines Live Wallpaper.
Video Paper 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 Video Paper.Lively Wallpaper
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo19 Lively Wallpaper alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Wallpapers Hub
- Windows
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 Video Paper.
- - Lively Wallpaper is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Video Paper.
Lively Wallpaper Features
Wallpaper Engine
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo- Paid • Proprietary
- Wallpapers Hub
- Shell Extension
41 Wallpaper Engine alternatives- Windows
- Android
- Steam
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 Video Paper.
- - Wallpaper Engine is the most popular commercial alternative to Video Paper.
Wallpaper Engine Features
ScreenPlay
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo36 ScreenPlay alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Shell Extension
- Mac
- Windows
- Steam
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 Video Paper.
ScreenPlay Features
WinDynamicDesktop
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo24 WinDynamicDesktop alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Desktop Customization Tool
- Windows
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.
WinDynamicDesktop Features
Wave Lines Live Wallpaper
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo36 Wave Lines Live Wallpaper alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Android
- F-Droid
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.
Sucrose Wallpaper Engine
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo41 Sucrose Wallpaper Engine alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Wallpapers Hub
- Windows
Sucrose is a versatile wallpaper engine that brings life to your desktop with a wide range of interactive themes.
Sucrose Wallpaper Engine Features
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 Video Paper.
xlivebg Features
RainWallpaper
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo27 RainWallpaper alternatives- Paid • Proprietary
- Desktop Customization Tool
- Windows
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.
RainWallpaper Features
Aerial is a Mac screen saver based on the new Apple TV screen saver that displays the aerial movies Apple shot over New York, San Francisco, Hawaii, China, etc.
Aerial Features
Manage your collection simply with folders, then add all of them to HydraPaper. You can enable or disable them with just a click.
HydraPaper Features
free and open-source wallpaper engine, set any window as your wallpaper.
DiscontinuedThe project seems still developed, but latest version, 0.6.1, was released in November 2018. It can be still downloaded from GitHub.
AwesomeWallpaper
Is this is a good alternative?YesNo17 AwesomeWallpaper alternatives- Free • Open Source
- Windows
AwesomeWallpaper plays videos, shows images and system information on your desktop wallpaper. It supports next modes:
AwesomeWallpaper Features