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Sucrose Audio API
A real-time FFT audio visualizer drives compatible web wallpapers off your system audio and music — spectra, pulses and motion that move with the sound.
FFT128-bin20 Hz–16 kHzStereo
Free & open sourceModern wallpaper experience,
Modern wallpaper experience,
engineered for Windows.
A versatile wallpaper engine that brings life to your desktop with a wide range of interactive wallpapers — Gif, Url, Web, Video, YouTube and Application. Eight engines, one precise app. Completely open-source and free.
Eight enginesWebViewCefSharpMpvPlayerVlcPlayerNebulaVexanaXavierAurora
What sets it apart
A wallpaper that listens to your machine.
Most engines play a loop and stop there. Sucrose reads your audio and your hardware in real time, then gets out of the way the moment you start working or gaming.
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Performance-aware
Auto-pauses when a game or app goes fullscreen, runs a power-saving mode on battery, spans multiple screens and all resolutions, and manages CPU/GPU usage.
Fullscreen pauseBattery modeCPU/GPU management
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Sucrose System API
A JavaScript API exposes live hardware and system data straight to web wallpapers — CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, battery, network and BIOS — so a wallpaper can genuinely respond to your machine. A capability still rare among free engines.
CPUGPURAMStorageBatteryNetworkBIOS
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Free & open source
The full engine is free on GitHub — no paywall, no payment for any feature, no trial, no watermark. Read the source, file an issue, ship a fix.
Taiizor/SucroseNo paywall
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Customizable
Many wallpapers expose their own interactive controls — colors, speed, intensity and behavior — adjustable from the app. Or build your own wallpapers from scratch.
Interactive controlsBuild your own
The engine layer
Eight engines. Six wallpaper types. One app.
Different content wants a different engine. Sucrose ships a backend for each job and lets you pick — web stacks for interactive pages, dedicated players for video and Gif, and its own native engines.
#EngineTechnologyWallpaper typesKind
01WebViewMicrosoft Edge WebView2Web
02CefSharpChromium (CEF)Web
03MpvPlayerlibmpvMedia
04VlcPlayerlibVLCMedia
05Nebulanative WPFNative
06Vexananative WPFNative
07XavierXamlAnimatedGifNative
08Auroranative WPFNative
Web renderingMedia playbackNative WPF renderer
Six wallpaper types · default engine per type
GifDefault · MpvPlayer
UrlDefault · CefSharp
WebDefault · CefSharp
VideoDefault · MpvPlayer
YouTubeDefault · CefSharp
ApplicationDefault · Aurora
Showcase
Browse, install, and make it yours.
A built-in store puts a growing library of free wallpapers one click from your desktop — served through the sucrose.soferity.com API and browsable only inside the Sucrose app. Publish your own for free, install, tweak the controls, and place across monitors — all without leaving Sucrose.
20 wallpapers in the library — more in the built-in store, right inside the app.
Get started
Bring your desktop to life.
Get Sucrose Wallpaper Engine free from the Microsoft Store or GitHub Releases and set your first live wallpaper in minutes. Open source, no account, no payment for any feature.
Windows 10 & 11x86 · x64 · ARM64GPL-3.028 languages
