Joe Maring / Digital trends
Favorite pets, loved ones, and precious memories are some of the common choices for phone backgrounds, but you don’t have to choose just one of these options. One of the more fun features to come out of the smartphone revolution is the “live wallpaper” — a wallpaper that is, you guessed it, alive in some form. Whether that means an aquarium with moving fish, a map that tracks your location, or a sparkling neon explosion of color, live wallpapers are attention-grabbing, stunning, and worth experimenting with.
While most phones now have built-in live wallpapers, there are excellent options available through a number of apps. While many of them may not have been updated recently, they are still functional, highly rated, and worth your time. Here are the best free live wallpapers for Android.
Do you have an iPhone? You can also get live wallpapers for iPhone.
Wall St
Live wallpapers can be flashy, but they can also be useful. Wall St falls neatly into the second category and lets you create a live wallpaper based on your location. Select the live wallpaper option and it will turn your lock or home screen into a conveniently updated map — extremely useful if you’re in a new city or unfamiliar location. You can choose from a number of different styles and colors for your map, and if you opt for the Pro version of the app, you can then remove the markings from your maps, making them cleaner and more stylish.
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drawing
This open source app brings you original and unreleased Material You wallpapers from the Google Pixel 4 and Pixel 6, along with a range of Chrome OS wallpapers. These soft pastels are soothing, quiet, and a far cry from many of the loud and neon wallpaper apps on the Play Store — and would suit someone who wants a more relaxed vibe on their phone. Customization and battery saving are also strong here. Your live wallpaper can respond to dark mode and power saving mode, plus you can fine-tune effects like parallax to your liking. Although not the app of choice for those who want strong and vibrant wallpapers, Doodle is worth downloading and checking out.
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R device information
Most of your phone’s processes hide in the background, but you can bring them to the forefront with this amazing live wallpaper. Device Info R Live Wallpaper displays all your phone’s background stats, including CPU usage, storage level, and even information about your sensor. It’s the perfect background for data geeks, and you can choose from a range of different colors and customize which bits of information are visible to you. It’s a relatively simple live wallpaper compared to some bombastic or ostentatious options, but it’s sure to have some loyal fans.
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Forest live wallpaper
Forest Live Wallpaper depicts an animated dense forest set against majestic mountains and boasts a host of dynamic features. An intuitive day-night cycle gradually brightens and fades background colors according to the time of day, and a star-studded sky appears after dusk. The trees also move as if experiencing the wind. Although it has stopped providing weather information, it is still a beautiful, inspiring live wallpaper app.
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4D live wallpaper
4D Live Wallpaper app offers a large selection of AMOLED 4D wallpapers, HD and animated live wallpapers along with 3D, depth effects and video. Styles range from geometry to 3D parallax with 4D depth effects visible when you tilt the device to activate the gyroscope or accelerometer motion sensors. Choose from 3D images of superheroes, outer space, black neon, flaming skulls and other such dramatic options. There are also doggies, roses, marble patterns, unicorns, glitter, anime, you name it — whatever suits your identity and mood. Updated versions have added even more wallpapers.
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Rain Live Wallpaper
Many of us like to watch and listen to the rain on the window, and the renamed rain live wallpaper allows you to watch the rain on your screen whenever you turn on your phone. The live wallpaper, featuring a high-definition video of raindrops on a window glass, offers more than just rain and a gray sky. A subtle blur effect prevents droplets from obscuring your shortcuts and widgets, and the wallpaper is optimized to consume minimal resources to preserve your phone’s battery.
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Stalker cat live wallpaper
If you’ve ever wanted a cat without the hassle of changing the litter or filling the living room with squeaky toys, Stalker Cat Live Wallpaper might be your best bet. The live wallpaper features a silhouetted mischievous black cat moving around the edges of your screen. It pops up from random places along the edge of the screen and gets smug if it thinks you haven’t spotted it. Anne Pätzke — the artist behind the wallpaper — designed the little creature to be subtle and enchanting, and we couldn’t agree more.
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Paperland
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Paperland is a beautiful realization of a two-dimensional parchment world. The free version features Beach, Silent Night, Desert Migration, and Grass themes, each of which comes with the same customizable aesthetic. You can choose a fixed time of day or let the sun rise and set according to the local time. Additional options allow you to change specific scene elements, such as tree leaves and the height of various hills, along with kinetics such as movement speed. The latest version allows you to set your own location for weather reporting and other themed details.
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A galaxy of shadows
The Galaxy collection is a robust offering that includes choices such as the Ice, Inferno or Vortex Galaxy finishes, although we prefer the Shadow version as it works as a dark, subtle backdrop. The wallpaper places your device in the middle of a star-studded galaxy, much like a spaceship observing space. Customizable parameters include the number of stars and celestial body animation speed, but the defaults are a great place to start.
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Live weather
If you’d like to know when you should get your rain boots ready, find those snowshoes hidden in the back of the closet, or just slip on your flip flops, the changing weather wallpaper is a great choice. Weather Live presents an up-to-date selection of climate statistics not only from your neighborhood but from around the world. You also have the chance to specify effects like raindrops, light streaks and faded colors, allowing your phone to correctly display the current conditions. You can even view the real-time forecast with satellite data, and built-in algorithms extend battery life.
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Muzei live wallpaper
If you’re an art enthusiast, Muzei Live Wallpaper refreshes your home screen with artwork from famous painters that blend into the background, blur and darken to keep the focus on your icons and widgets. Maybe you’re not a fan of famous pictures. Nothing special. The app can also pull your own artwork and photos to insert as background images that change every few hours. The app can also import galleries from other apps you’ve downloaded. Muzei now automatically switches between the bottom navigation when in portrait and the navigation bar along the left side of the screen when in landscape
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Fish Live Wallpaper
If you love aquatic creatures, don’t miss Fish Live Wallpaper. Use it to set up a beautiful 3D display where you can view a wide variety of fish in your personal aquarium. Watch the fish swim, float and race. Add flowers, rocks and mountains to the foreground and watch animated air bubbles and numerous 3D effects. Check out all kinds of fish species including pearl gourami, goldfish, swordfish and many more. Best of all, when you touch the fish, they react, giving a fun interactive element that really brings them to life. The latest versions add more fish, improve the aquarium design and work with Android 11.
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