Animated Wallpapers are nothing new per se. But until now a majority of the available options are not free of cost. I remember seeing animated wallpaper on my friend’s PC back in the day.

Install Lively Wallpaper and open the app. It will display a small window preloaded with animated wallpapers to choose from. You could just grab one of those—some even include customization ...

This personalization software lets you turn various videos, GIFs, emulators, HTML, web addresses, shaders, and even games into animated Windows desktop wallpaper. The Lively application for ...

The Android 16.4 beta allows Pixel users to create AI-generated animated wallpaper based on the weather.

Put a goldfish on your desktop with this beautifully animated wallpaper. In our household we have a hard time keeping goldfish alive–infact, we just buried one last week. Instead of heading back ...

It’ll automatically load up. If you want the animated GIF as your default wallpaper, you’ll need to also add the GIFPaperAgent app to your Mac login items. Otherwise it’ll go back to your ...

Tom Warren is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has been working on dynamic animated wallpapers for ...