About
A desktop that breathes, not just sits.
LiveLayer is a free, open-source live wallpaper and date widget app for Windows. We believe your desktop should feel alive — without bloatware, without tracking, and without a store.
Why we built LiveLayer
Most wallpaper engines are heavyweight programs that need Steam, a store, and an account, and they run as slow background processes. We wanted a live wallpaper app that was the opposite: tiny, fast, private, and free. So we built one with Tauri.
The technology
LiveLayer is built with Tauri and React, so the installer is about 5 MB and the app uses only about 200 MB of RAM while playing video wallpapers. It supports MP4, WEBM, AVI, MOV, MKV, GIF, JPG, PNG, WEBP, TIFF, and TGA — your wallpapers, your formats.
Open source by conviction
LiveLayer is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license. Anyone can read the code, verify the privacy promises, build the app themselves, or contribute. Open source is not a marketing line for us — it is the whole point.
View the source on GitHub →Made by one developer
LiveLayer is designed and built by Ritesh Kokam. The project is small, focused, and driven by community feedback. If you have an idea, a bug, or a question, we would love to hear from you.
Get in touch →Make your desktop feel alive.
Download LiveLayer free from the Microsoft Store and bring motion to your desktop in under a minute.