Wallpaper Engine Alternatives

Wallpaper Engine is described as '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!' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Wallpaper Engine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Steam, Linux and Android. The best alternative is Lively Wallpaper, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Wallpaper Engine are Variety Wallpaper Changer, ScreenPlay, RainWallpaper and Video Paper.

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

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Wallpaper Engine

Paid • Proprietary
Shell Extension

Windows
Android
Steam

Use stunning live wallpapers on your Windows desktop. Animate your own images to create new wallpapers or import videos and...

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Lively Wallpaper
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Free • Open Source
Windows
17 alternatives to Lively Wallpaper
Free and open-source application for setting GIFs, Videos and Webpages as your desktop wallpaper and screensaver!
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Lively Wallpaper Features
1. Ad-freeLively Wallpaper doesn't contain any form of external advertising.
2. Support for scriptingLively Wallpaper supports scripts and macros to automate or customize tasks.
Live Wallpapers
Widgets
Support for HD videos
Lively Wallpaper vs Wallpaper Engine opinions
Almost everyone thinks Lively Wallpaper is a great alternative to Wallpaper Engine.
Guest
surprisingly good app to use for animated wallpapers!
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aazard
ITs infact more powerful than wallpaper engine, and the dev's arnt greedy... unlike the devs of wallpaper engines
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gltchpnk
Pro: -It's free~ -No clutter -Customizable, you can even change the taskbar (TaskbarX still offers a bit more)

Con: -JavaScript Wallpapers preinstalled (heavy) -can be cpu%gpu heavy if you don't know what youre doing/uploading.

has a lot of settings (pro&con)
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EnricoMarcel
It's nice,but don't have many customizable wallpapers.
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Variety Wallpaper Changer
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Free • Open Source
Linux
43 alternatives to Variety Wallpaper Changer
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...
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Variety Wallpaper Changer Features
Facebook integration
Image Filters
Variety Wallpaper Changer vs Wallpaper Engine opinions
Most users think Variety Wallpaper Changer is a great alternative to Wallpaper Engine.
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
ScreenPlay vs Wallpaper Engine opinions
Almost everyone thinks ScreenPlay is a great alternative to Wallpaper Engine.
Guest
It's open source and cross platform. It also has very active development!
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Guest
Works great and soon on Linux and Mac as well!
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RainWallpaper
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Paid • Proprietary
Desktop Customization Tool
Windows
25 alternatives to RainWallpaper
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.
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RainWallpaper Features
Configurable
Video wallpaper
RainWallpaper vs Wallpaper Engine opinions
Almost everyone thinks RainWallpaper is a great alternative to Wallpaper Engine.
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.
Video Paper vs Wallpaper Engine opinions
Almost everyone thinks Video Paper is a great alternative to Wallpaper Engine.
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.

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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.

WinDynamicDesktop has no features, suggest some!

WinDynamicDesktop vs Wallpaper Engine opinions
pros, cons and recent comments
RemovedUser
Great app, but it changes static wallpapers depending on time (no animated wallpapers like WallpaperEngine).
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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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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.
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!