The Best Open Source Wallpaper Engine AlternativesTop Wallpapers Hubs and other similar apps like Wallpaper Engine

The best open source alternative to Wallpaper Engine is Lively Wallpaper. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Wallpaper Engine and many of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Wallpaper Engine are Variety Wallpaper Changer, ScreenPlay, Sucrose Wallpaper Engine and Paperize.

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  1. Lively Wallpaper icon

    Lively Wallpaper

     93 likes

    Free and open-source application for setting GIFs, videos and webpages as your desktop wallpaper and screensaver.

    37 Lively Wallpaper alternatives

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    • Windows
    Latest Windows 11 fluent design.
     
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  2. Variety Wallpaper Changer icon

    Variety Wallpaper Changer

     136 likes

    Variety is a wallpaper changer for Ubuntu which is featureful, yet slim and very easy to use. It can automatically download wallpapers from various online sources, allows rotating them on a regular interval or on demand, and provides easy to use ways to separate the great images...

    47 Variety Wallpaper Changer alternatives

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    • Linux
    Main settings, indicator menu and thumbnails display
     
  4. ScreenPlay icon

    ScreenPlay

     34 likes

    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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Steam
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  5. Sucrose Wallpaper Engine icon

    Sucrose Wallpaper Engine

     20 likes

    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.

    57 Sucrose Wallpaper Engine alternatives

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    • Windows
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  6. Paperize icon

    Paperize

     19 likes

    Paperize is a dynamic wallpaper changer application built for Android using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Material 3.

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
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    WinDynamicDesktop

     17 likes

    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.

    33 WinDynamicDesktop alternatives

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    • Windows
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  9. Hidamari icon

    Hidamari

     10 likes

    Video wallpaper for Linux. Written in Python.

    20 Hidamari alternatives

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    • Linux
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  10. mpvpaper icon

    mpvpaper

     2 likes

    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.

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    • Linux
    • mpv
    • Wayland
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  11. HydraPaper icon

    HydraPaper

     2 likes

    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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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    Layered WallPaper

     4 likes

    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
    • Linux
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  13. Aerial icon

    Aerial

     2 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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  14. LivePaper icon

    LivePaper

     1 like

    A lightweight app that displays animated wallpapers on Windows and Linux.

    4 LivePaper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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