Wallpaper Engine Alternatives

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 50 alternatives to Wallpaper Engine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and Steam 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, Linux, Open Source, Wallpapers, Mac + Desktop Customization, Mac and Windows. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Wallpaper Engine.
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  1. HydraPaper icon

    HydraPaper

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    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...

    22 HydraPaper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  2. Ultimate Live Wallpaper icon

    Ultimate Live Wallpaper

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    Ultimate Live Wallpaper is an amazing lightweight AAA live wallpaper engine with stunning 3D animation effects and mouse interaction.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
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  4. Dynamic Theme icon

    Dynamic Theme

     5 likes

    Dynamic background and/or lock screen picture with daily Bing or Windows Spotlight pictures, one Bing or Windows Spotlight picture or personal pictures.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Stardock DeskScapes

    Bring 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 animat...

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  6. Video Wallpaper Creator icon

    Video Wallpaper Creator

     1 like

    Create video wallpaper for your desktop - Impress your customers and friends with a video wallpaper - Make desktop exciting with video wallpaper.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Video Wallpaper Creator screenshot 1
     
  7. 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)

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  8. Music Visualizer Engine icon

    Music Visualizer Engine

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    Interactive 3D wallpaper that reacts on any sound. Play your music on YouTube, Spotify etc. and enjoy the spectacle.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Steam
    Music Visualizer Engine screenshot 1
     
  10. WinWallhaven icon

    WinWallhaven

     3 likes

    WinWallhaven is one of the most loved wallpaper communities on the web—high-quality images, thoughtful tagging, powerful filters, and a free API focused entirely on wallpapers. While there have been Windows apps for wallhaven in the past, many are outdated, clunky, or built on...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  11. Desktopr icon

    Desktopr

     10 likes

    Desktopr is simple way to extend your desktop with any content you can even imagine. Using Desktopr you can set any website, social network, movie or other content as your desktop background.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  12. LivePaper icon

    LivePaper

     1 like

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  14. Space Journey 3D

     1 like

    Live Wallpapers and Screensavers for Windows to make desktop alive and interesting!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  15. Desktop Live Wallpapers icon

    Desktop Live Wallpapers

     1 like

    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.

    43 Desktop Live Wallpapers alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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