lively-community/lively

lively-community/lively has 20,028 GitHub stars and 1,406 forks. GitHot measured +8 stars in 24 hours. Last checked 2026-11-06 15:49 UTC. Last push 2026-09-30.

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Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers powered by WinUI 3.

20,028 stars 1,406 forks +8 in 24h

What you can do

Minimal webpage renderer powered by chromium.
Hardware accelerated video playback using mpv/vlc player with customizable video filters.
Easy to use; Just drag'n'drop media or webpages into lively to set as wallpaper.
Latest Windows 11 design using WinUI 3 + WindowsAppSDK framework.

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Lively Wallpaper

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Animated desktop wallpapers, bring your desktop to life!

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Features

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Types Of Wallpapers

Wallpaper	Example	Interactive	Resolution	Performance
Video/GIF	Video by Rostislav Uzunov	No	Fixed	Fixed
Webpage	25th Hour by Loius Coyle	Yes	Variable	Variable
Application/Games	Run Unity or Godot games as wallpaper	Yes	Variable	Variable

Screensavers

Lively supports Windows screensaver.
Any wallpaper can be used as screensaver.
Multiple monitor supported.
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Automation

Lively can be controlled with command line arguments from terminal.
Integrate with other languages like Python or scripting software AutoHotKey.
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Lively API

Powerful set of API for developers to create interactive wallpapers.
Get hardware readings, audio graph, music information..
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Machine Learning

Leverage Machine Learning inference to create dynamic wallpapers.
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More Features

Minimal webpage renderer powered by chromium.
Hardware accelerated video playback using mpv/vlc player with customizable video filters.
Easy to use; Just drag'n'drop media or webpages into lively to set as wallpaper.
Latest Windows 11 design using WinUI 3 + WindowsAppSDK framework.
Efficient, Lively is native application designed for Windows.
Fully opensource & free; no blackmagic, no features behind paywall.
Shadertoy.com urls are supported as wallpaper.

Performance

Wallpaper playback pauses when fullscreen application/games run on the machine (~0% cpu, gpu usage).
Set wallpaper playback rules based on running foreground application.
Can be set to pause wallpaper when running on battery power (laptops.)
Wallpaper automatically pauses when running remote desktop session.

Lively is not officially affiliated with Unity technologies, godot, shadertoy;