Live Wallpaper Engine for Windows
Your desktop,
but it's alive.
DesktopHut plays videos and animated wallpapers behind your icons — and adds a floating widget called Island that keeps your music, weather, and shortcuts one glance away.
Wallpapers
One library. Every screen.
Drop in your own videos and GIFs, or pull from a gallery that's already full of them. DesktopHut handles the playback so your desktop never looks like it's "loading."
Online gallery
Browse first, download what you like
Discover is a built-in gallery of community wallpapers, updated regularly. Preview, download, and it lands straight in your library — no separate site, no manual file hunting.
- New wallpapers added regularly across every genre
- One-click download straight into your Library
- Works alongside your own local files in the same view
Multi-monitor
Every display, exactly how you want it
Run a different wallpaper on each monitor, or span one ultra-wide scene across all of them for a single immersive backdrop. Set per display, or set on all at once.
- Independent wallpapers per display
- One wallpaper spanned seamlessly across every screen
- Per-wallpaper brightness, contrast, saturation, speed and fit
A small widget that does a lot.
Island floats at the top of your screen, on top of whatever's running. Pick a shape, a theme, even your own background — then put it to work.
Media controls
Whatever's playing in any app shows up automatically, with full transport controls and synced lyrics.
Weather, at a glance
Current conditions and a 5-day forecast, right there — no separate app to open.
Focus timer & DND
Start a focus session or a Do Not Disturb countdown right from the Island, with a live progress ring.
Quick launch dock
Drag a file, folder, or shortcut onto the Island and it's one tap away from then on.
Tasks & notes
A real calendar with per-day tasks, plus quick notes and checklists — add them from the Island or from Settings.
Shape & theme
Pill or notch-style, solid or glass, eight color presets — or upload your own background image or GIF.
Performance
Tuned for real machines, not demo rigs
Quality presets, an FPS limit, and a Low Resource Mode for laptops and integrated graphics. DesktopHut also frees GPU and CPU automatically the moment a game or app goes fullscreen.
- Stops automatically on fullscreen apps and games
- Adjustable quality, FPS limit, and decode threads
- Low Resource Mode for laptops and older hardware
Give your desktop something to do.
Free on the Microsoft Store. Takes about a minute to set your first wallpaper.
Questions