windows-animated-wallpapers
High-quality animated and live wallpapers for Windows 10 and 11. Smooth 60 FPS animations, low CPU usage, 4K support. Open-source and portable
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GITHUB · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 300 upvotes (top 6%) · 0 views
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- animated-wallpaper
- desktop-customization
- live-wallpaper
- motion-background
- open-source
- webm
- +3 more
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Could you build this?
Yes A Windows live-wallpaper app is mostly desktop-window embedding and video or animation playback, which a solo builder can assemble with standard Windows APIs and media libraries.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #22 of 491 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 305 days after the earliest competitor.
- SeeWallpapers · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- wallpaper-engine-4k-animated-wallpaper-toolkit · github · 2026-09-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- HTML TO MOTION · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- penguin-engine · github · 2026-10-24 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Overlook Live Wallpapers · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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- wallpaper-engine-hotswap · github · 2026-09-18 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- lowpaper · github · 2026-10-03 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- HYPNIX · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48