Enhance your Windows desktop with animated wallpapers like 3D, 2D, videos and more. Customize with a built-in editor, share via Steam Workshop, and stay ad-free with companion app support for Android.
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Lively Wallpaper AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Wallpapers Hubs
The best Wallpapers Hub alternative to Lively Wallpaper is Wallpaper Engine. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Sucrose Wallpaper Engine or Paperize. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Lively Wallpaper and many of them are Wallpapers Hubs so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Wallpapers Hub alternatives to Lively Wallpaper are ScreenPlay, Wallper, Waywallen and HydraPaper.
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69 Wallpaper Engine alternatives
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.
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Paperize is a dynamic wallpaper changer application built for Android using Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and Material 3.
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53 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).
32 Wallper alternativesDelivers live 4K wallpapers for Mac, supporting H.264/H.265 playback across multi-displays, customizable Smart Library filters, device management for up to three devices, Apple Silicon compatibility, music sync, lock screen and custom screensavers, and secure app sandboxing.
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Dynamic wallpaper solution for Linux desktops focusing on Wayland compositors, providing animated and customizable backgrounds, script support, compatibility with KDE Plasma, Sway, and Hyprland, lightweight performance, and support for image, video, and HTML wallpapers.
24 HydraPaper alternativesHydraPaper 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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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.
Wallpaper app for Mac enabling 4K video, GIF, and interactive web backgrounds, Wallpaper Engine library import from Steam, playlists with auto-cycling, unique wallpaper per display, performance controls, auto-pause, no third-party dependencies, and native Apple Silicon support.
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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.
Desktop Live Wallpapers brings animated wallpapers to your desktop! Load all your personal video files into this app and set it as your wallpaper or download from collections of hundreds of beautiful animated wallpapers.
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AwesomeWallpaper plays videos, shows images and system information on your desktop wallpaper. It supports next modes:
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I like screenplay because it has live wallpaper.