App Like Wallpaper Engine For Mac

Wallpaper Engine enables you to use live wallpapers on your Windows desktop. Various types of wallpaper are supported, including 3D and 2D animations, websites, videos and even certain applications. Choose an existing wallpaper or create your own and share it on Steam Workshop!

Apps Like Wallpaper Engine
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Great images for your desktop are great on their own, but wallpaper software can make them even better. Here are a few apps that will allow you to keep your wallpapers fresh, add video and effects, and a lot more.

Apps Like Wallpaper Engine

Satellite Eyes

OS X: Satellite Eyes change's your Mac's desktop image to a satellite view of your current location. It uses Wi-Fi to figure out approximately where you are, grabs satellite images of that location, and then sets them as your wallpaper. Obviously not an exciting prospect for desktop machines, but those of you with MacBooks will appreciate the novelty.

Download Satellite Eyes (Free)

Living Earth

Windows: Living Earth puts NASA satellite images of the entire earth on your desktop. It also provides weather. In addition to providing a live desktop in Windows, it also doubles as a screensaver. Here's a similar option for Linux, and a free option for Windows.

Set a Rotating Picture of the Earth as Your Ubuntu Wallpaper

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Wallpaper Clocks

Windows/OS X/iOS/Ubuntu/KDE4: Vlad Studios offers a number of Wallpaper Clocks, which are—believe it or not—wallpapers with built-in clocks. They're not apps or simple image files, but rather WCZ files that can be used by a number of wallpaper clock apps. If you check out Vlad Studio's page, you'll see a list of apps for several platforms on the left side of the page.

Download Wallpaper Clocks (Free) | Vlad Studios

DeskScapes

Windows: DeskScapes provides you with a collection of hundreds of animated wallpapers. You can also add animated effects to existing wallpapers. This can involve adding birds in the sky of a photo you love or stylizing any image in various ways.

Download DeskScapes($20, Free Trial)

Desktop Aquarium

OS X: Desktop Aquarium's name should imply what it does: put an aquarium on your Mac's desktop. The free version includes shorter videos (30 seconds) and occasional popup ads. If you want longer videos and no ads, you can get the full version for $3.

Download Desktop Aquarium (Free) or Desktop Aquarium ($3)

Desktop Weather and YWeather

Windows: Always want to know the weather? Desktop Weather will put it on your desktop. In addition to an actual image, it displays a forecast as well.

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Download Desktop Weather (Free)

OS X: YWeather is a Perl script that does the same sort of thing on OS X using the popular desktop customization app GeekTool.

Download and Setup YWeather (Free)

Yweather Puts the Weather On Your OS X Desktop

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Desktop Wallpaper Construction Kit

OS X: Want shelves on your desktop? This app will help you take a wallpaper you already like and add them. You can choose the number and types of shelves you have, plus add a floor for those shelves to sit on.

Download Desktop Wallpaper Construction Kit ($1)

NatGeo Downloader

Windows:NatGeo Downloader can grab over 5,000 wallpaper-worthy images from National Geographic's library. If your desktop is generally sporting a rotation of nature and wildlife photos, you'll want to grab this app.

Pulse

Windows: If you don't want to bother looking for wallpapers but want great ones cycling through your desktop, Pulse will download and display them automatically based on any keyword of your choice.

Download Pulse (Free)

Add Movie Wallpaper

OS X and Windows: Using the app Add Movie Wallpaper, you can add video to your OS X desktop. Windows users can do this for free with VLC.

Set a Video as Your Wallpaper with VLC

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