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, portable, and easy to set up.
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GITHUB · launched Nov 9, 2026 · 119 upvotes (top 36%) · 0 views
Niche: live wallpaper applications · 91 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- animated-wallpaper
- desktop-app
- desktop-customization
- live-wallpaper
- motion-background
- open-source
- +3 more
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More like this: all 91 launches in live wallpaper applications →
Could you build this?
Yes Animated Windows wallpapers can be built by a solo developer using a WebView2 or Electron-style host rendering video or canvas content behind desktop icons, with the performance tuning done iteratively.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 540 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #151 of 541 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 308 days after the earliest competitor.
- SeeWallpapers · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- MY: Live Wallpapers · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- HTML TO MOTION · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- EWRE - Live Desktop Wallpaper · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- wallpaper-engine-4k-animated-wallpaper-toolkit · github · 2026-09-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Overlook Live Wallpapers · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- LiveWall · ph · 2026-10-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- HYPNIX · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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