Wallpapers don't need to be the same old static images we're used to. If you want to use something more active or animated, these programs can help.

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 ...

Lively Wallpaper needs to always run in the background, so if you close the program, the animated wallpaper is also removed along with it.

RainWallpaper is a free software that brings live, animated wallpapers to your computer. The software offers a good amount of customization features and allows users to get dynamic wallpapers easily.

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.

Use Lively Wallpaper to set any YouTube video as a Windows wallpaper Lively Wallpaper is an app created by rocksdanister.

Wallpaper Engine may be familiar to those of you who are using Windows PCs. This is actually a very popular program that allows you to create your own animated wallpapers.

How to create an animated wallpaper for your PC? Dynamic wallpapers can give life to your screen (although they may reduce the battery life of your device more than a static image). There are two ...

A former Microsoft designer has revealed what Windows 11’s dynamic wallpapers look like. The feature was supposed to ship last year, but has likely been canceled now.

Here’s a sample of the new wallpapers–but keep in mind that these are single shots of an animated sequence.