(This is preview of upcoming v1.0 update)
Turn Video & GIF Files, Emulators, HTML, Web address & Shaders, Games into Windows desktop wallpaper; Wallpapers will completely pause playback( 0% cpu & gpu usage) when fullscreen application/games are running.
Just drag & drop files, webpages to set as wallpaper..
Lively is still in development, if you encounter bugs create a github Issue along with log file
Help translate lively to other languages: Translation Files
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Eternal Light by VISUALDON
- Use external codec packs or internal windows codec.
- Play .mp4, mkv, webm, avi, mov etc
- Hardware Acceleration support.
- Audio will mute when not on desktop.
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, create wallpapers that react to system audio
- Customisation support, documentation.
- Just drag & drop youtube link to set as desktop wallpaper.
- Video quality is adjustable in settings.
Heartfelt by BigWIngs
- Run GLSL shaders in browser.
- Shadertoy.com urls are supported as wallpaper.
- Make Memes/Cinemagraphs as wallpaper ...
- Coming soon
- Can set Unity, Godot games and any application as wallpaper.
- Dynamic audio visualisers, 3D scenes..
- 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, lively appearance adapts to system theme settings.
- Efficient, its a native .net core application.
- Fully opensource & free; no blackmagic, no features behind paywall.
- Wallpaper playback pauses when fullscreen application/games run on the machine (~0% cpu, gpu usage).
- Set wallpaper playback rules based on running foreground application.
- Full Multiple monitor support.
- Span single wallpaper across all screens.
- Duplicate same wallpaper all screens.
- Different wallpaper per screens.
I'm not officially affiliated with Unity technologies, godot, shadertoy;
Latest version: v0.9.6.0 (Windows 10, 8.1)What's new?
Download Lively Installer
102MB, Web wallpaper support & some sample wallpapers included.Download Lively Portable
111MB, (No Installation & updater) Web wallpaper support & some sample wallpapers included.
Portable build: Latest Visual C++ Redistributable is required: vc_redist.x86.exe
Installer will give Smartscreen warning, discussion.
Certain antivirus software heuristics algorithm will detect lively as a virus, this is a false positive lively is fully opensource, you are free to inspect the code.
See github issues.
Code contributions are welcome, check guidelines for making pull request.
Help translate lively to other languages: Translation Files
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Lively v1.0 onwards is licensed under GPL-3.
Previous version is licensed under MS-PL, see v0.9.6.0 branch for working builds.