● live — real engine render

Bring your
desktop to life

Name: DeskRift
Author: DeskRift

DeskRift turns anything that moves into your Windows wallpaper: videos from YouTube and RuTube, your own files and GIFs, ready-made catalog collections — or an endless 3D space rendered in real time.

▶ Video GIF loops ✦ 3D space ≡ Playlists ⌗ Catalogs

Download for Windows free See what it does

up to 4K at 60+ FPS · 0% GPU while gaming · streams without downloading · Windows 10/11

Features

Anything can be your wallpaper

One tool instead of a zoo of apps: video from the web or your disk, GIF loops, ready-made collections, and a space engine of its own.

live video

Video wallpapers from YouTube & RuTube

Paste a link or use the built-in search — DeskRift streams the video onto your desktop without waiting for a download. Like it? Cache it and keep it offline, up to 4K.

live video

GIFs & seamless loops

Lightweight endless loops — lofi coziness on your desktop. You can even cut your own GIF out of any video.

Wallpaper catalogs: a wall of preview thumbnails

Ready-made catalogs

Built-in collections of live wallpapers: browse previews, set one in a click, star your favorites.

real engine render

Real-time 3D space

Not a recording — a simulation. Planets, nebulae and black holes that never repeat.

Playlists, favorites, clips

Group videos into rotating playlists, star what you love, and cut a clip out of a long video right in the app — no external tools.

See the interface →

Unified center

Everything managed
in one window

Library, search, downloads and settings live in one tidy control center. This is the app's actual interface — no retouching.

⌕YouTube & RuTube search — with previews and recommendations.
▤Library — space, video, local files and wallpapers by section.
↓Downloads & GIF export — save videos and cut clips.
◐Dark & light themes, English, Russian and Chinese.

DeskRift — Unified Center

The real DeskRift interface: library, YouTube and RuTube search, player

Signature mode

Space that
never repeats

DeskRift's pride is its own engine: the camera drifts forever through a procedural universe, and every frame is computed on your GPU right now. Every launch is a new route: different planets, different nebula palettes, different encounters.

✦Living bodies — planets with atmospheres, stars with boiling plasma, black holes with lensing, comets and meteors.
✦Cursor parallax — space responds to your mouse even underneath desktop icons.
✦Cinematic image — bloom and tone mapping like a planetarium, not a 2005 screensaver.

Multi-monitor

One scene across every screen

Stretch the picture as a single panorama across your whole setup — the scene continues seamlessly from monitor to monitor, aware of their real layout and DPI. Or use clone mode: the identical picture on every screen, frame for frame.

⧉Span — one continuous scene across all monitors.
⧉Clone — identical content on each screen.
⧉Any configuration — mixed resolutions, scaling and orientations.

Three monitors with a single scene spanning all screens

Performance

Beautiful when you look.
Invisible when you work.

auto-pause 0%

GPU while gaming

A fullscreen game or movie instantly pauses rendering and fully releases your graphics card.

WebGPU 4K

Native resolution

Video and space in true 4K on modern GPUs — no upscaling, no blur.

fallback 3

Graphics tiers

WebGPU → WebGL2 → lightweight 2D: the engine picks the path for your hardware, from a gaming rig to an office laptop.

own process ∞

Self-sufficient

The wallpaper lives in its own process: configure, close the app — the picture keeps living.

Install

Three steps to a living desktop

Download the installer

Grab the latest build via the direct link and run the file — installation takes under a minute.

↓ DeskRift-setup-x64.exe done

Find the rocket in the tray

DeskRift lives in the system tray next to the clock and never clutters your taskbar. The wallpaper starts right after launch.

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Pick your wallpaper

Double-click the icon to open the control center: space, video from YouTube and RuTube, your own files or GIFs — your call.

Picking a wallpaper in the DeskRift control center

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Which content sources are supported?

YouTube and RuTube (by link or via built-in search), local video files, GIFs, wallpaper catalogs with ready-made collections, plus DeskRift's own 3D space engine. You can also cut a clip out of a long video right in the app.

Does DeskRift slow down games?

No. The moment you launch a game or any fullscreen app, DeskRift pauses the wallpaper and fully releases the GPU. Rendering resumes when you return to the desktop.

What are the system requirements?

Windows 10 or 11. Video wallpapers run on almost anything, and the 3D space engine adapts: modern GPUs get the WebGPU renderer up to 4K, older ones fall back to WebGL2, and low-end machines get a lightweight 2D mode.

Is multi-monitor supported?

Yes. One scene can span across all monitors, or clone onto each one — in clone mode the picture is identical on every screen.

Windows warns me during installation — is that normal?

Yes. The installer is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn about an unknown publisher. Click "More info" → "Run anyway". Only download DeskRift from the official downloads page.

Is the space just a looped video?

No — it is a true simulation rendered in real time. The universe is procedurally generated: every launch is a new journey with different planets, nebulae and events. The picture never repeats.