Truly lightweight
Comes with zero pre-loaded content — no bloatware eating your storage. The installer is about 5 MB, and the app stays lean while it runs.
Features
Every feature, thoughtfully built.
LiveLayer focuses on the essentials and polishes them — wallpapers that play beautifully, widgets that fit your layout, and performance that stays out of your way.
Live video wallpapers
Set any video as your desktop background with seamless playback. Supports MP4, WEBM, AVI, MOV, and MKV.
Auto-change slideshow
Cycle through your collection automatically at your own interval. Wallpapers rotate in random order, always skipping the one you’re looking at.
Customizable date widget
A transparent date and time overlay you can drag anywhere on screen and lock in place. Pick fonts, colors, scale, alignment, and 24-hour time.
Multi-format support
Images: JPG, JPEG, PNG, BMP, WEBP, TIFF, TGA. Videos: MP4, WEBM, AVI, MOV, MKV. Plus GIF. Your wallpapers, your formats.
System tray integration
Control everything from the tray without opening the main window — toggle the date widget, stop video wallpapers, or quit. Optional auto-start on boot.
Video wallpapers
Wallpapers that actually move.
Drop in any MP4, WEBM, AVI, MOV, or MKV and LiveLayer plays it as your desktop background. No transcoding, no quality loss, no special formats to learn. A GPU with hardware video decoding keeps playback smooth.
- MP4, WEBM, AVI, MOV, MKV + more
- Hardware video decoding
- Plays over static images and GIFs too
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Date widgets
The desktop widget you actually wanted.
Overlay a date and time widget on any wallpaper — then tune every detail. Choose from six fonts, set the color, scale it from 0.5× to 1.5×, align it anywhere, and switch between 12- and 24-hour time. Drag it wherever you want and lock it in place — it stays put while your wallpaper moves beneath it.
- 6 fonts — Google fonts + system fonts
- Color, scale (0.5×–1.5×) & alignment controls
- 12/24-hour toggle, drag anywhere, and lock in place
Ready to see it in motion?
Download LiveLayer free from the Microsoft Store and transform your desktop in under a minute.