Motion 0.4 · Linux and Windows · Android coming soon
Wallpapers that move, and the studio to make them.
Motion plays animated wallpapers on your desktop and your phone. Each wallpaper is a scene: a file you can download, make and publish. Motion Studio is where you make your own: layers, keyframes, effects, scripts and shaders, played by the same engine as the wallpaper.
KDE Plasma · GNOME · Sway, Hyprland and other Linux desktops · Windows 10 and 11 · Android: coming soon to Google Play
Comes with Motion
Twenty scenes to start with. Or make your own.
Drop a video or a picture on Motion and that's a scene too. Videos decode on the GPU.
Gradients, a nebula and stars, drifting at three depths round a warm magenta heart.
A rose and an ice-blue spiral falling into each other.
Jellyfish swimming in the dark, from an animated 3D model.
A neon harbour in the rain, with its own sound and a bell.
A field of lava from above, crust and glowing cracks and rivers.
Motion Studio
Build a scene out of layers. See it as it'll play.
The preview in Studio is the wallpaper's own engine, so what you see is what your desktop gets.
- 60 kinds of layerGradients, aurora, particles, 3D, text and clocks, video, web pages, your own shaders.
- 56 effects, keyframes and masksBlur, glow, colour grading and film looks on any layer, moved on a timeline.
- Logic and materialsScripts in JavaScript or TypeScript, or nodes if you'd rather not type. Shaders in code or in nodes too.
Light on your hardware
It stops when you can't see it.
On integrated graphics
Most scenes cost a millisecond or two of an Intel laptop's GPU.
When it's covered
A window over the whole screen pauses it. On battery too, if you want.
Unless you ask for more
One clock drives everything. When nothing moves, nothing is drawn.
Motion Hub
Scenes other people made.
Browse and download scenes other people made, in Motion Player or on the web, and publish yours from Studio when it's ready. The twenty that come with Motion are already in the app.
This week on the Hub
Get Motion
Buy it once. Use it on the computer and the phone.
Buy Motion in one place and you have it on your computer, and on your phone once Motion for Android is out. A scene you make plays on Windows, Linux and Android. What's free and what owning Motion adds
Direct
The Windows installer and the Linux .debs, downloaded from Motion Hub. The installer isn't signed yet, so Windows asks before running it: choose More info, then Run anyway.
Buy directGoogle Play
Motion for Android, its watch app and Motion Studio for Android come to Google Play after the desktop. Bought on Steam or direct, they open for you there too.
Coming soonAlready own it? Download · How to install