The Best Wallpaper Engine AlternativesTop Wallpapers Hubs and other similar apps like Wallpaper Engine
Wallpaper Engine is described as 'Enable dynamic, animated wallpapers on Windows desktop with 3D, videos, and apps support. Share creations via Steam Workshop and stay ad-free' and is a popular Wallpapers Hub in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Wallpaper Engine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Steam and Android apps. The best Wallpaper Engine alternative is Lively Wallpaper, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Wallpaper Engine are Variety Wallpaper Changer, ScreenPlay, Sucrose Wallpaper Engine and Paperize.
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Wallpaper Engine alternatives are mainly Wallpapers Hubs, but if you're looking for Desktop Customization Tools or Shell Extensions you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Windows + Free and Mac + Desktop Customization. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Wallpaper Engine.- Wallpapers Hub
- Paid • Proprietary
21 Lively Wallpaper alternativesFree and open-source application for setting GIFs, videos and webpages as your desktop wallpaper and screensaver.
Lively Wallpaper Features
Lively Wallpaper VS Wallpaper Engine
Comments about Lively Wallpaper as an Alternative to Wallpaper Engine
Top Positive CommentTop Negative Commenthundvd7I really want to like it. For one, the customization UI/UX is so far beyond Wallpaper Engine's, and the performance is supposed to be better. It also has great advanced options, like selecting the web engine. All for free.
Buuuuut: The performance is much worse than WPE. The wallpapers slow down further when I open the customization menu. The UI lags terribly when I'm dragging it around. Trying to add a website will always add a link to Big Buck Bunny...
Most Recent CommentgltchpnkPro: -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)
43 Variety Wallpaper Changer alternativesVariety 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...
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
United States
Platforms
- Linux
Variety Wallpaper Changer Features
Variety Wallpaper Changer VS Wallpaper Engine
37 ScreenPlay alternativesScreenPlay 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).
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
Germany
EU
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Steam
- Linux
ScreenPlay Features
ScreenPlay VS Wallpaper Engine
Comments about ScreenPlay as an Alternative to Wallpaper Engine
Most Recent Commenttvgoing1It does not support screen sharing, the entire project rely too much on Steam gaming platform. Don't use it.
It's open source and cross platform. It also has very active development!
Works great and soon on Linux and Mac as well!
42 Sucrose Wallpaper Engine alternativesSucrose 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.
Sucrose Wallpaper Engine Features
Sucrose Wallpaper Engine VS Wallpaper Engine
Paperize is a dynamic wallpaper changer application built for Android using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Material 3.
Paperize Features
Paperize VS Wallpaper Engine
26 WinDynamicDesktop alternativesThis 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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application types
Country of Origin
- United States
Platforms
- Windows
WinDynamicDesktop VS Wallpaper Engine
Comments about WinDynamicDesktop as an Alternative to Wallpaper Engine
RemovedUserGreat app, but it changes static wallpapers depending on time (no animated wallpapers like WallpaperEngine).
Hidamari Features
Hidamari VS Wallpaper Engine
Comments about Hidamari as an Alternative to Wallpaper Engine
Maretheyu606This was the first LWPE I used for Linux, and I have to say there is nothing better I can find that is still FOSS. Luv it
RainWallpaper is a powerful live wallpaper engine that allows you to use various types of customizable animated wallpapers on your Windows desktop.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Windows
RainWallpaper VS Wallpaper Engine
22 Stardock DeskScapes alternativesBring your wallpaper to life with DeskScapes! DeskScapes is a program that allows users to have animated wallpaper on their Windows desktop. It supports playing video as animated wallpaper, dynamically generated content as animated wallpaper, and more.
License model
- Paid • Proprietary
Application types
Country of Origin
- United States
Platforms
- Windows
Stardock DeskScapes Features
Stardock DeskScapes VS Wallpaper Engine
Layered WallPaper allows You to create multi-layered parallax wallpapers. Each layer moves with Your mouse cursor, creating beautiful parallax effect.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
Layered WallPaper VS Wallpaper Engine
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ITs infact more powerful than wallpaper engine, and the dev's arnt greedy... unlike the devs of wallpaper engines