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Live wallpapers for Mac & Windows, built with web tech. Turn React or Vue into interactive, 4K animated desktops—or pick no-code image/video. The only live-wallpaper app on both Mac and Windows, with a marketplace to discover or sell your own.
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Fluxlay is a live-wallpaper app for macOS and Windows that turns your desktop background into high-quality, web-powered animation. Wallpapers are built with web technologies like React and Vue — any Vite-compatible framework, including Three.js / react-three-fiber — and rendered up to 4K. A...
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Fluxlay's answer
Fluxlay is the only live-wallpaper app that runs natively on both Mac and Windows — Wallpaper Engine is Windows-only and Plash is Mac-only.
A few things set it apart:
Web-powered & interactive: wallpapers are built with web tech (React, Vue, any Vite-compatible framework, including Three.js / react-three-fiber) and rendered up to 4K — so they can react and animate, not just loop a video.
Light on resources: a native Rust engine (Tauri 2) runs smoothly at up to 120 FPS and auto-pauses in fullscreen, returning CPU/GPU to 0%.
A marketplace, not just an app: publish an image or video wallpaper in about three minutes with no code, or build interactive React wallpapers with an SDK of 12 hooks — then share or sell them.
AI-assisted creation:
an official Claude Code plugin scaffolds a working wallpaper from a single prompt (/fluxlay:new) — from idea to publish.
Fluxlay's answer
Two groups:
Desktop users on Mac and Windows who want a beautiful, animated desktop without slowing their machine down.
Creators — designers, motion and 3D artists, and React/web developers — who want to make and monetize live wallpapers, either with no code (image/video in ~3 minutes) or with the React SDK on Fluxlay Studio.
It's especially at home with people who enjoy customizing their setup and developers who already build with web tech.
Fluxlay's answer
Fluxlay's answer
Fluxlay started from a simple idea: the desktop is the one screen you look at all day, but live wallpapers were stuck — locked to a single OS, often heavy, and hard to create without a proprietary editor.
Fluxlay's take is to build wallpapers with the web stack people already know (React, Vue, Three.js) and play them through a lightweight native Rust engine that runs on both Mac and Windows. That makes a living desktop something any web developer can build — and, through the marketplace, something creators can share and sell.
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