Wallpaper Engine

Use stunning live wallpapers on your desktop. Animate your own images to create new wallpapers or import videos/websites and share them on the Steam Workshop!

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game_description_snippet

Use stunning live wallpapers on your desktop. Animate your own images to create new wallpapers or import videos/websites and share them on the Steam Workshop!

game_review_summary

Overwhelmingly Positive

responsive_reviewdesc

- 98% of the 11,121 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive.

review_number

11,121

release_date

Nov 2018

developer

Wallpaper Engine Team

publisher

Wallpaper Engine Team

popular_tags

Mature,Utilities,Software,Anime,Design & Illustration,Animation & Modeling,Memes,Indie,Cute,NSFW,Early Access,Action,Funny,Singleplayer,Photo Editing,Sandbox,Game Development,Horror,First-Person,Gaming

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https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256735610/movie480_vp9.webm

video_webm_hd

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256735610/movie_max_vp9.webm

video_poster

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256735610/movie.293x165.jpg

image_highlight

https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/431960/ss_5aec3335b1ae2300aa91da990d7e24541ddcf68d.1920x1080.jpg

game_area_description

About This Software

Wallpaper Engine enables you to use live wallpapers on your Windows desktop. Various types of animated wallpapers are supported, including 3D and 2D animations, websites, videos and even certain applications. Choose an existing wallpaper or create your own and share it on the Steam Workshop! In addition to that, you can use the free Wallpaper Engine companion app for Android to transfer your favorite wallpapers to your Android mobile device and take your live wallpapers on the go.

NEW: Use the free Android companion app to transfer your favorite wallpapers to your Android mobile device.



  • Bring your desktop wallpapers alive with realtime graphics, videos, applications or websites.
  • Use animated screensavers while you are away from your computer.
  • 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.
  • Use the Steam Workshop to share and download wallpapers for free.
  • 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).
  • Use the free Android companion app to take your favorite scene and video wallpapers on the go.
  • Support for Razer Chroma and Corsair iCUE.



Wallpaper Engine aims to deliver an entertaining experience while using as few system resources as possible. You can choose to automatically pause or completely stop the wallpaper while using another application or playing fullscreen (including borderless windowed mode) to not distract or hinder you while playing a game or working. Many options to tweak quality and performance allow you to make Wallpaper Engine fit your computer perfectly. As a general rule of thumb, 3D, 2D and video based wallpapers will perform best, while websites and applications will require more resources from your system. Having a dedicated GPU is highly recommended, but not required.

Choose from over a million free wallpapers from the Steam Workshop with new wallpapers being uploaded every day! Can't find a wallpaper that fits your mood? Let your imagination go wild by using the Wallpaper Engine Editor to create your own animated wallpapers from images, videos, websites or applications. A large selection of presets and effects allow you to animate your own images and share them on the Steam Workshop or to just use them for yourself.

community_hub_url

https://steamcommunity.com/app/431960

game_url

https://store.steampowered.com/app/431960/Wallpaper_Engine/

game_id

431960

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insdate: 2025-07-04 07:46:40
title: Wallpaper Engine
additional: Use stunning live wallpapers on your desktop. Animate your own images to create new wallpapers or import videos/websites and share them on the Steam Workshop!
category: Mature
md5: c8e9e9524a7bacb1a14dc967a02af5be
game_description_snippet: Use stunning live wallpapers on your desktop. Animate your own images to create new wallpapers or import videos/websites and share them on the Steam Workshop!
game_review_summary: Overwhelmingly Positive
responsive_reviewdesc: - 98% of the 11,121 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive.
review_number: 11,121
release_date: Nov 2018
developer: Wallpaper Engine Team
publisher: Wallpaper Engine Team
popular_tags: Mature,Utilities,Software,Anime,Design & Illustration,Animation & Modeling,Memes,Indie,Cute,NSFW,Early Access,Action,Funny,Singleplayer,Photo Editing,Sandbox,Game Development,Horror,First-Person,Gaming
video_webm: https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256735610/movie480_vp9.webm
video_webm_hd: https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256735610/movie_max_vp9.webm
video_poster: https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256735610/movie.293x165.jpg
image_highlight: https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/431960/ss_5aec3335b1ae2300aa91da990d7e24541ddcf68d.1920x1080.jpg
game_area_description:

About This Software

Wallpaper Engine enables you to use live wallpapers on your Windows desktop. Various types of animated wallpapers are supported, including 3D and 2D animations, websites, videos and even certain applications. Choose an existing wallpaper or create your own and share it on the Steam Workshop! In addition to that, you can use the free Wallpaper Engine companion app for Android to transfer your favorite wallpapers to your Android mobile device and take your live wallpapers on the go.

NEW: Use the free Android companion app to transfer your favorite wallpapers to your Android mobile device.



  • Bring your desktop wallpapers alive with realtime graphics, videos, applications or websites.
  • Use animated screensavers while you are away from your computer.
  • 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.
  • Use the Steam Workshop to share and download wallpapers for free.
  • 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).
  • Use the free Android companion app to take your favorite scene and video wallpapers on the go.
  • Support for Razer Chroma and Corsair iCUE.



Wallpaper Engine aims to deliver an entertaining experience while using as few system resources as possible. You can choose to automatically pause or completely stop the wallpaper while using another application or playing fullscreen (including borderless windowed mode) to not distract or hinder you while playing a game or working. Many options to tweak quality and performance allow you to make Wallpaper Engine fit your computer perfectly. As a general rule of thumb, 3D, 2D and video based wallpapers will perform best, while websites and applications will require more resources from your system. Having a dedicated GPU is highly recommended, but not required.

Choose from over a million free wallpapers from the Steam Workshop with new wallpapers being uploaded every day! Can't find a wallpaper that fits your mood? Let your imagination go wild by using the Wallpaper Engine Editor to create your own animated wallpapers from images, videos, websites or applications. A large selection of presets and effects allow you to animate your own images and share them on the Steam Workshop or to just use them for yourself.
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