Free Wallpaper Engine Alternatives for Windows
There are many alternatives to Wallpaper Engine for Windows if you are looking for a replacement. The best free Windows alternative is Lively Wallpaper, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Wallpaper Engine and 16 are free and available for Windows so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Windows alternatives to Wallpaper Engine are ScreenPlay, Sucrose Wallpaper Engine, WinDynamicDesktop and Layered WallPaper.
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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
22 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)
39 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!
44 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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
Türkiye
Platforms
- Windows
Sucrose Wallpaper Engine Features
Sucrose Wallpaper Engine VS Wallpaper Engine
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.
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).
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
Dynamic background and/or lock screen picture with daily Bing or Windows Spotlight pictures, one Bing or Windows Spotlight picture or personal pictures.
License model
- Free • Proprietary
Application type
Country of Origin
France- EU
Platforms
- Windows
Dynamic Theme Features
Dynamic Theme VS Wallpaper Engine
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
DiscontinuedThe GitHub repository has been archived in December 2024.
LivePaper Features
LivePaper VS Wallpaper Engine
License model
- Free • Open Source
Platforms
- Windows
DiscontinuedThe project seems still developed, but latest version, 0.6.1, was released in November 2018. It can be still downloaded from GitHub.
weebp Features
weebp VS Wallpaper Engine
VDesktop is a program that allows users to have animated wallpaper on their Windows desktop. VDesktop supports Windows 7, 8, 10.
DiscontinuedWebsite no longer exists and no further details available for the app.
VDesktop Features
VDesktop VS Wallpaper Engine
AwesomeWallpaper plays videos, shows images and system information on your desktop wallpaper. It supports next modes:
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Country of Origin
- United States
Platforms
- Windows
AwesomeWallpaper Features
AwesomeWallpaper 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