Wallpaper apps and live wallpapers
Apps and sites that supply, generate, rotate, or animate wallpapers for phones and desktops, from curated 4K libraries and AI generators to live/video wallpaper engines and switchers for macOS, Windows, Android and Linux.
Built for: Users customizing phone and desktop screens
Projects since May 04
67
Different builders
67
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▲ +50%
AI is the core
4.5%
Projects per week
Mostly desktop app (52%), mobile app (24%), web app (19%) · from r/SideProject, r/IMadeThis, r/vibecoding, r/ShowYourApp
Latest
- Weatherling — Overlays animated rain and snow on the Mac desktop, with collectible characters that appear in the weather.“I made it rain and snow on my Mac”
- Generates new Mac wallpapers automatically on an ongoing basis.“I got bored of my Mac wallpaper so I made an app that makes new ones forever”
- Pigment — Extracts colors from the wallpaper and applies them to Windows, Windows Terminal and desktop widgets.“I made a Windows 11 app that matches the desktop to your wallpaper”
- The Minimal Wallpaper — Generates a desktop wallpaper showing a 365-dot year grid with days elapsed, today highlighted, and optional countdowns, regenerating it nightly.“My desktop wallpaper quietly shows how much of the year is left — and it updates itself every night.”
- Tinbo — Hosts wallpapers with artist credits and downloads cropped to the user's screen size around the image subject.“I made a wallpaper site with credits for every image and downloads sized to your screen”
- AudioPaper — Changes the Mac desktop wallpaper to match the currently playing track's album art and related images from Apple Music or Spotify.“AudioPaper: Wallpapers based on the current track in Apple Music and Spotify”
- Wallnetic — Plays user-supplied video files as animated macOS desktop wallpapers.“Wallnetic - free, open-source live video wallpapers for Mac (1.4.2 just shipped)”
- KinotiX — Animates phone wallpapers with depth-based parallax, touch-reactive fluid effects, physics particles, and live camera backgrounds.“I made an Android live wallpaper app with real-time 3D depth effects”
- Planwall — Renders the user's calendar events and reminders as a customizable iPhone Lock Screen wallpaper.“I built an iPhone app that draws your calendar onto the Lock Screen wallpaper”
- MyWallHub — Hosts creator wallpapers for phone and desktop with per-device crops and syncs them to Android and Windows apps that rotate wallpapers automatically.“I built MyWallHub, a free wallpaper ecosystem for creators across Phone, PC, Android and Windows”
- Livewall — Plays animated video and interactive wallpapers on the macOS desktop.“I made wallpaper engine for Mac”
- Plant Wallpaper — Animates a living garden on the Mac desktop behind windows, with plants that grow over time, weather effects, and a cat that chases the cursor.“I created a wallpaper garden app for your Mac. Generate scenes, arrange your garden, progress through levels, pet your cat...download for free.”
- Wallery — Browses Wallhaven wallpapers, crops them to exact screen resolutions, and auto-rotates them per monitor on a schedule.“Built Wallery — a wallpaper browser for Wallhaven with a proper crop-to-screen tool”
- LockFit — Previews wallpapers over device lock-screen overlays so users can pan, zoom, and export a crop that keeps faces clear of the Dynamic Island, notch, and clock.“[Side Project] LockFit — preview wallpapers on real iPhone/Android lock screens so UI doesn't cut faces (2.99 lifetime)”
- Morrow — Delivers one hand-curated 4K art wallpaper each morning with curation notes and home screen widgets.“I was sick of ad-choked, low-res wallpaper apps, so I built Morrow — a calm daily art sanctuary. Today it's finally live on iOS alongside Android!”
- DarkWall — Provides a library of dark and AMOLED wallpapers for phones.“DarkWall Wallpapers - Apps on Google Play”
- Plays animated wallpapers with audio, shifts colors based on computer temperature, shows CPU/GPU/RAM stats, and pauses media when windows cover the screen.“Looking for opinions on a tool I'm working on”
- ShufflePaper — Rotates Windows desktop wallpapers from chosen folders, pausing during fullscreen activity and switching folders by work or personal schedule.“I wanted more control over Windows wallpaper rotation, so I built my own lightweight alternative”
- Sets and cycles desktop wallpapers on macOS.“i built a wallpaper engine for mac”
- UnfoldMyMac — Adds animated lid effects, dynamic wallpapers and interactive desktop scenes to a MacBook.“UnfoldMyMac - Free Mac wallpapers, lid effects and interactive desktop scenes”
Most discussed
- Wallpets — Displays animated cat and dog characters on the desktop wallpaper layer that respond to interaction.“My 1st App rains Cats & Dogs..”
- Displays the currently playing track as a vinyl record player scene on the desktop wallpaper.“I built an app that shows the track you're playing on a vinyl player as your wallpaper.”
- Wallper — Plays animated 4K video wallpapers on a Mac desktop and lock screen, and can react to music playing.“Our Mac app hit 84,650 users in a year with 0 spent on ads”
- Sets and cycles desktop wallpapers on macOS.“i built a wallpaper engine for mac”
- AudioPaper — Changes the Mac desktop wallpaper to match the currently playing track's album art and related images from Apple Music or Spotify.“AudioPaper: Wallpapers based on the current track in Apple Music and Spotify”
- Papyrus — Plays video files as animated Wayland wallpapers and recolors the COSMIC desktop theme to match the wallpaper.“Papyrus -- free animated wallpaper manager for COSMIC (Pop!_OS), with live DE auto-theming”
- Generates abstract wallpaper designs from selectable themes and color palettes, with light and dark modes.“I made an abstract wallpaper generator”
- nocringe wallpapers — Hosts a site of free wallpapers to download without ads or popups.“my 1st project”
- World Clock Live — Displays a live LED-style world map clock with 24 cities as the desktop wallpaper.“I built a live world clock that sits behind your desktop icons (Windows + macOS). The blinking colon cost 25x more CPU than the clock.”
- Renders live and static desktop wallpapers with low memory use, and is planned to include a built-in wallpaper library.“Open source wallpaper”