How to Get Live Wallpapers on Windows 10 [Full Guide]

If you are searching for how to set live wallpapers on your Windows computer, this article may be helpful. 

What Is a Live Wallpaper?

Live wallpapers are animations and moving pictures that are displayed on the Windows computer, which gives you a way of personizing, and customizing your computer, making your desktop more interesting. But, it has drawbacks. The live wallpapers will drain your computer battery and need extra demand from your computer CPU, and it is a distraction when you using the computer. If you consider using a live wallpaper, consider whether it will not consume your Windows 10 computer performance. 

How to Get Live Wallpapers on Windows 10?

There are many wallpaper software on the market, here we take some as recommendations. All you need to do is download one find the wallpaper you like and set it as your desktop.

Wallpaper Engine

Wallpaper Engine is a helpful solution that customizes your computer. But it needs a $5 fee. This app allows you to create live and animated backgrounds for your own Windows 10 computer, and you can import pictures you like. It supports MP4, WebM, AVI, M4V, MOV, and WMV File Formats. Here is how to use it.

Step 1: Download Wallpaper Engine.

Step 2: Install the Wallpaper Engine.

Step 3: Launch the application. The app icon will show up in the taskbar. 

Step 4: Right-click the icon. > Select Change Wallpaper.

Step 5: Choose A Display. You need to pick up a resolution for your computer. 

Step 6: Choose A Wallpaper. You can go to the Workshop tab and search for a specific one.

Stardock DeskScapes 10

DeskScapes is a great program to set live, dynamic wallpaper on the Windows 10 computer, which allows you to use your own WMV files to personalize your desktop. It costs 4.99$ with 30 days of free trial.

Step 1: Download and install it.

Step 2: Launch it.

Step 3: Search for the live wallpapers you like. 

Step 4: Click Apply background.

Desktop Live Wallpaper

Desktop Live Wallpaper is a free tool that allows you to set GIFs, images and videos as wallpapers on your Windows 10 computer. You can download the app from the Microsoft Store. 

Step 1: Download it and install it. 

Step 2: Click Add Photos/Videos.

Step 3: Click Pick From PC.

Step 4: Select the material you want to set as your wallpaper.

Step 5: Click Apply Changes.

Plastuer

Plastuer is developed based on Chromium, which is good at setting GIFs as wallpapers on Windows. It has a clean UI interface and is simple to use. You can set a GIF in less than 2 minutes on your Windows 10 computer. What’s more, it also supports videos, dream scenes, images, and web pages. The fee is 5$.

Step 1: Download and install it. 

Step 2: Launch it.

Step 3: Enter the GIF URL in the Enter Valid URL. (Or you can choose a locate GIF on your computer by Selecting File option.)

Step 4: Click Save.

Step 5: Choose your display settings.

Step 6: Click Save to apply.

Push Video Wallpaper

Push Video Wallpaper is a paid (7,46$)solution with a free trial for your Windows 10 computer desktop wallpapers. You can open the system tray to open it. It allows you to set YouTube videos as your wallpapers; you just need the link to complete this. 

Step 1: Download and install it.

Step 2: Launch it > click the playlist icon.

Step 3: Name the playlist from the drop-down menu.

Step 4: Select the playlist.

Step 5: Click the plus icon to add the GIF you like.

Step 6: Click the add URL icon to add a YouTube video.

Step 7: Paste the URL.

Step 8: Click Add to Playlist.

Rainmeter

Rainmeter is a tool that allows you to display customizable wallpaper and widgets on your Windows 10 computer. 

Step 1: Download and install it.

Step 2: Click Rainmeter from the system tray.

Step 3. Then, in the skin section, you can choose the one you like, or you can install skins in VisualSkins.com and GitHub. And use Rainmeter to load it.

RainWallpaper 

RainWallpaper is a powerful dynamic wallpaper for Windows 10 computers, which allows you to set up customizable animated wallpapers in both 3d and 2d live images and mouse interactions. The fee is 3.99$ but with free usage. 

Step 1: Download and install it.

Step 2: Launch it from the system tray.

Step 3: Go to the workshop tap.

Step 4: Find the one you like. The chosen one will be downloaded and installed.

Step 5: Click installed tap and choose the one you like. The app will automatically set the desktop with your choosing images.

Lively Wallpaper

Lively Wallpaper is another practical app providing a way of setting dynamic images as your computer wallpapers, which is an open-source tool. It is free to use. It supports GIFs, videos, and webpages as your wallpapers.

Step 1: Download and install it. (You can search for it on the Microsoft Store.)

Step 2: Launch it from the system tray. Click Open Lively.

Step 3: Select any wallpaper from the library.

Step 4: If you want to set a GIF or YouTube video as your wallpaper, click the Plus “+” icon on the interface.

Step 5: Paste a URL of the page that you want to make it as your wallpaper. 

Step 6: Choose display settings and Click OK.

VLC Media Player App

VLC Media Player App is a video player that allows you to set the live images of the video as wallpapers on your computer. It is free to use.

Step 1: Download and install it.

Step 2: Select the video or movie > right-click it.

Step 3: Hover to Open with option > select VLC media player.

Step 4: Click the Video tab > select Set as wallpaper option.

Conclusion

Here are the night apps we suggest you use to set the live wallpapers on your Windows 10 computer. But, you should pay attention to your compute CPU usage when you are setting the live wallpaper.