Live Wallpaper App for Windows
Your desktop,
but it's alive.
DesktopHut Studio plays videos and animated wallpapers behind your icons. Download from the gallery of 67,000+ wallpapers on desktophut.com, or turn your own photo into one with the built-in Motion Photo Editor.
Wallpapers
One library. Every screen.
Drop in your own videos and GIFs, or pull from the gallery at desktophut.com — 67,000+ wallpapers and growing. DesktopHut Studio handles the playback so your desktop never looks like it's "loading."
The Wallpaper Library
Browse first, download what you like
The DesktopHut wallpaper library is free, updated regularly, and organized by category and tag. Preview a wallpaper, download it, and it lands straight in your Studio library alongside your own files — video, HTML packages, native .dh scenes and even an online URL all play in the same grid.
- 67,000+ wallpapers across anime, gaming, nature, sci-fi and more
- Live fit, brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and playback-rate controls — no re-export needed
- A live CPU/RAM readout on every wallpaper's card, so you can see what's actually costing you
Multi-monitor
Every display, exactly how you want it
Run a different wallpaper on each monitor, or use Span Mode to play one scene as a single continuous canvas across all of them. DesktopHut Studio also remembers your per-monitor assignments and reapplies them automatically if a display gets disconnected and reconnected.
- Independent wallpapers per display
- Span Mode: one scene, spanned seamlessly across every screen
- Per-monitor assignments restored automatically after a display reconnects
Or paint one from a single photo.
The Motion Photo Editor turns any photo into a living wallpaper: import it, paint a mask over the part you want to animate, and apply a motion preset or particle effect to just that region — no other software needed. See the Handbook for the full walkthrough, or try it at desktophut.com/motion-photo-editor.
Start from any photo
Import a still image as your base layer, then paint a soft-edged mask to control exactly where an effect applies.
65 motion presets, 8 categories
Motion & displacement, water, light & color, weather, glass & lens, blur & focus and more — paint one onto your mask and keyframe its parameters over time.
~30 particle assets
Snow, rain, fire, fireflies, sakura, dust, embers, leaves, bubbles, stars and more — layered on and tuned visually.
Bone rig & Cloth Sway
Rig and move part of a photo with joint-based animation, or use Cloth Sway — real Verlet-integration physics, not a shader — for hair, capes and curtains.
Full undo/redo history
Experiment freely — every edit is tracked, so you can step back through changes at any point.
Export three ways
MP4/GIF/WebP for sharing, a lightweight HTML live wallpaper, or the native .dh package with full effects and layers.
Performance
Tuned for real machines, not demo rigs
Adjustable quality tiers, hardware decoding, an FPS limit, and Low Resource Mode for laptops and integrated graphics. DesktopHut Studio also pauses automatically on fullscreen apps, games, and screen lock, and shows a live CPU/RAM readout right on each wallpaper's card.
- Auto-pauses on fullscreen apps, games, and screen lock
- Adjustable quality tiers, FPS limit, and hardware decoding
- Live CPU/RAM readout per wallpaper, plus Low Resource Mode
Give your desktop something to do.
Free and ad-free. Takes about a minute to set your first wallpaper — then browse the full library at desktophut.com.
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