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LiveWall
A live wallpaper that costs nothing when you aren't looking
Live video wallpapers that don't drain your laptop. When a window covers the desktop, LiveWall tears the decoder down entirely: not paused, destroyed. Native on macOS, Windows, Linux and Android. 504 KB binary, 12 MB idle, menu bar only. Free and open source (MIT).
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I built LiveWall because every live wallpaper app I tried showed up in Activity Monitor and spun my laptop fans, decoding video nobody could see behind my editor.
So LiveWall is built around one constraint: it should cost almost nothing when you aren't looking at it.
• Visibility tears down, it doesn't pause. Cover the desktop and the decoder is destroyed. The last frame stays on screen for free; playback resumes where it left off.
• Partial coverage counts. It measures how much of the desktop is actually visible (64×40 grid) and stops below 8%, so one visible corner doesn't keep a 4K decode running.
• One frame in flight. No read-ahead queue, no buffering a second of 4K into memory.
• Low Power, thermal, lock screen and idle are all hard stops.
It's native on every platform: Swift + Metal on Mac, C++/Direct3D 11 on Windows, X11 + Wayland on Linux, and a 102 KB APK on Android. No Electron, no web view.
The website has a live demo: drag a window over the wallpaper and watch the decoder shut off.
Mac tip: first launch, right-click LiveWall › Open (it isn't notarized yet).
Free and MIT-licensed. I'd love feedback, especially numbers from your machine.
“A live wallpaper that costs nothing when you aren't looking”
LiveWall was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 10 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #106 on the daily leaderboard. Live video wallpapers that don't drain your laptop. When a window covers the desktop, LiveWall tears the decoder down entirely: not paused, destroyed. Native on macOS, Windows, Linux and Android. 504 KB binary, 12 MB idle, menu bar only. Free and open source (MIT).
LiveWall was featured in Mac (103.8k followers), Open Source (69k followers), GitHub (41.4k followers) and Menu Bar Apps (12.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 63.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted LiveWall?
LiveWall was hunted by Swalahu cv. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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