Use stunning live wallpapers on your Windows desktop. Animate your own images to create new wallpapers or import videos and websites and share them with others!

Wallpaper Engine comes with a powerful editor for turning static images into complex animated sceneries. It’s easy to use if you are new to image editing but also caters to power users with very advanced features similar to what you can find in modern video game engines.

Features
Bring your desktop alive with realtime graphics, videos, applications or websites.
Personalize animated wallpapers with your favorite colors.
Use interactive wallpapers that can be controlled with your mouse.
Many aspect ratios and native resolutions supported including 16:9, 21:9, 16:10, 4:3.
Multi monitor environments are supported.
Wallpapers will pause while playing games to save performance.
Create your own animated wallpapers in the Wallpaper Engine Editor.
Animate new live wallpapers from basic images or import HTML or video files for the wallpaper.
Steam Workshop to share and download wallpapers.
Wallpaper Engine can be used at the same time as any other Steam game or application.
Supported video formats: mp4, WebM, avi, m4v, mov, wmv (for local files, Workshop only allows mp4).
Support for Razer Chroma and Corsair iCUE.

System Requirements

Minimum:

OS: Windows 7 (with Aero), 8.1, 10, 11
Processor: 1.66 GHz Intel i5 or equivalent
Memory: 1024 MB RAM
Graphics: HD Graphics 4000 or above
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 512 MB available space
Additional Notes: Windows N versions require the ‘Media Feature Pack’ from Microsoft. Aero must be enabled on Windows 7. Max video resolutions: Windows 8, 10: 4K, Windows 7: 1080p

Recommended:

OS: Windows 10, Windows 11
Processor: 2.0 GHz Intel i7 or equivalent
Memory: 2048 MB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, AMD HD7870, 2 GB VRAM or above
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 1024 MB available space
Additional Notes: Mobile App requires Android 8.1 or newer

• Added new light shafts effect and preset.
• Added new clone system with improved Windows 11 compatibility and ability to flip each clone horizontally.
• Added new playlist transition system with improved Windows 11 compatibility with 27 shader-based transition animations.
• Added puppet warp deformation/blend shape smudge brush.
• Added animatable puppet bone depth ordering.
• Added puppet reference overlay for i.e. reference pose editor.
• Made it possible to add additional content to an existing puppet warp character sheet.
• Added FOV slider to 2D scenes which also contain 3D assets.
• Improved puppet warp reference pose blend system for smoother limb transitions.
• Added bone multi select to animation editor.
• Added property group view to curve editor.
• Added puppet warp depth order to reference pose editor.
• Made bone names editable in animation editor.
• Added bone selection list to animation editor.
• Added preview toggle to blend shape editor.
• Added new puppet shading overlay to edit blend shapes/deformation more easily.
• Improved animation editor scaling.
• Changed playSingleAnimation script function to apply in/out blending of animation and made it configurable.
• Changed playSingleAnimation to sort animation dynamically before permanent additive layers.
• Added clean local storage button to editor.
• Added point filter option to adjustable composition layer.
• Made zooming in preview mode be multiplied with current camera zoom value for easier previewing.
• Added effect script support to clear intermediate buffers by script (i.e. fluid simulation).
• Added script functions to manipulate puppet blend shapes and local bone transforms per frame.
• Changed renderable center function on child layers to center to parent layer.
• Updated CEF.
• Implemented new scene rendering in-editor for compatibility with new CEF version and best possible performance.
• Improved mouse capturing for camera input.
• Updated Freetype/Harfbuzz.
• Updated V8.
• Added Media Foundation failsafe for video textures if Windows is lacking Media Foundation libraries.
• Improved device loss stability.

• Fixed morph blend weight for models and puppets being blended incorrectly over multiple layers.
• Fixed numerical property inputs being marked as incorrect by HTML.
• Fixed match loop animation interpolation for 3D models.
• Fixed base translation of prerendered layer causing frame buffer reads to be offset.
• Fixed light renderable importing from Workshop assets.
• Fixed “Media Foundation stutter fix” not being visible in the app settings under certain conditions.
• Fixed startup service executable being rewritable.
• Fixed property group height not being unset after group animation finished.
• Fixed android external storage permission dialog not showing up again after being cancelled.

Changelog
Additions & Changes

Added clipping mask system to puppets.
Added new effects: glitter, shimmer, water caustics, cloud motion.
Added texture variant system.
Added generic vertex editing gizmos to make rotating/scaling multiple vertices at once possible.
Added blend shape bone modulation.
Added puppet warp rope simulation with global gravity and wind properties.
Added an option to control the cycle interpolation in water flow effect to reduce blurriness/image copies.
Added low FPS preview option to editor. Especially relevant for physics simulations.
Added wallpaper transition option for wallpaper previews. The option can be found in the “General” tab of the app settings.
Added ability to disable color overrides on child particles.
Added missing interpolation filter initialization for layers without reference texture.
Faster puppet animation editor undo.
Enabled editor degree conversion rounding for generic properties and physics constraints.
Disabled color override on fireworks refract particle to fix background tinting.
Changed mip map streamer to load third detail level first for slightly faster render start.
Added automated puppet mesh depth generation. You can find the option in the Geometry settings after locking the geometry. Click on Edit Deformation, select a limb or an entire model by double-clicking it and then use the “Auto Depth” button at the bottom.
Added masked default shader snippet to shader editor.
Added sampler generator to shader editor.
Added new perlin and uniform default textures.
Added diffuse light blend mode to shader blend modes.
Removed light layer limit and changed light system to render the closest lights only if light limit is reached.
Added 64 bit compiler to resolve crashes on very large textures.
Added texture size on disk to texture info page.
Added VRAM and genre hints to publish dialog.
Added position offset to puppet warp reference overlay.

Bug Fixes

Fixed lockscreen override and clone functionality on certain multi-screen environments.
Fixed Windows 11 24H2 update breaking screensaver detection.
Fixed Windows 11 24H2 update causing freezes on web wallpaper transitions.
Fixed editor degree conversion to work without rounding too.
Fixed visibility property in asset packs losing meta data when uploading.
Hide parallax settings on child layers since the parent element controls parallax in this case.
Fixed precomposed children not rendering last effect pass with alpha writing enabled, thus being invisible.
Fixed VHS effect mask.
Fixed particle drag behavior on high settings when FPS are very low.
Fixed paint message dead lock when importing multiple videos in editor.
Fixed puppet compiler crash when model is missing initial weight data.
Fixed sprite trail length fps compensation.
Fixed user property main panel reload on inline binding change.
Fixed scene script storage not properly separating data store between Workshop wallpapers.
Fixed layer move to bottom/position with parent layers.
Fixed crash with light cookies when using media integration album art.

Change Log

Thanks to ramiz0 (nsane) sharing

(Installer with extra wallpaper) x86 x64

Wallpaper Engine for Android

• Added option to disable wallpapers colors API or override it for phones that choose badly readable UI colors on their own.
• Added button to clear shader cache.
• Updated Android target SDK and NDK to Android 13.

• Fixed shader cache not being used.

Android version