About
Lively is the only animated desktop wallpaper application that you will need.
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Its super easy… barely an inconvenience, just drag & drop the files or webpages to set as wallpaper.
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Features
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Videos / GIFs
Eternal Light by VISUALDON
- Powered by mpv / vlc player.
- Customize videos with filters.
- Hardware Acceleration supported.
- Supports integer scaler for sharp image.
Webpages
25th Hour by Loius Coyle
- Load HTML file or web address as wallpaper.
- Runs webgl, javascript… basically anything that works on chrome.
- Audio Reactive Wallpaper support.
Video Streams
- Just drag & drop stream links.
- Adjustable video quality.
- Autofills wallpaper data.
Shaders
Heartfelt by BigWIngs
- Run GLSL shaders in browser.
- Custom shader renderer (coming soon.)
- Shadertoy.com urls are supported as wallpaper.
Games & Applications
- Support Unity, Godot games as wallpaper.
- Limited support for gui applications as wallpaper.
- Learn more…
Screensavers
- Lively supports Windows screensaver.
- Any wallpaper can be used as screensaver.
- Multiple monitor supported.
- Learn more…
Automation
- Lively can be controlled with command line arguments from terminal.
- Can be paired with third party scripting software like AutoHotkey.
- Learn more…
Lively API
- Powerful set of API for developers to create interactive wallpapers.
- Get system information, audio graph, music information…
- Learn more…
Taskbar Customization
- Several system taskbar theme : Clear, Blur, Fluent…
- Can adapt taskbar color based on live wallpaper color.
- Learn more…
& more
- Easy to use; Just drag’n’drop media files & webpages into lively window to set it as wallpaper.
- Hardware accelerated video playback, powered by mpv player.
- Interactive webgl wallpapers, powered by lightweight chromium engine Cef.
- Windows 10 fluent design, native windows theme.
- Efficient, Lively is a native .net core application.
- Fully opensource & free; no blackmagic, no features behind paywall.
- Supports converting any wallpaper to video via screen recording.
Performance
- Wallpaper playback pauses when fullscreen application/games run on the machine (~0% cpu, gpu usage).
- Set wallpaper playback rules based on running foreground application.
- Can be set to pause wallpaper when running on battery power (laptops.)
- Wallpaper automatically pauses when running remote desktop session.
Multiple displays
- Supports any number of monitors.
- Wallpaper adjusts automatically to monitor settings change.
- Span single wallpaper across all screens.
- Duplicate same wallpaper across all screens.
- HiDPI and Ultrawide resolutions supported.
I’m not officially affiliated with Unity technologies, godot, shadertoy;
Download
Latest version: v1.7.4.2 (Windows 10 1903 or above)What’s new?
SHA256: 0683fe78bede802eece570da143e8c26c75753374f57c964907c672b66d12b6e
Installer will give Smartscreen warning, discussion.
