Mural is a live wallpaper engine where every wallpaper is a stack of layers you can change: pictures, animated effects, live widgets, image sequences, and AI tools that edit, generate and animate for you.
Version 0.1.12 · 100 MB · 64-bit · installs per user, no admin needed · all releases
Other wallpaper apps give you a file. Mural gives you a scene: drag things around, swap the picture, tune the colours, add a widget, and apply. It runs behind your icons like a normal wallpaper, pauses for games, and uses your GPU.
Thumbnails, visibility, locks, drag to reorder, blend modes and opacity. Crop, resize and move any picture right on the canvas; double-click a layer to edit it where it sits.
Clock, date, weather for your city, system stats, a fresh quote every refresh, and photo feeds. Glass cards, glows, letter-spacing: styled, not stuck on.
Aurora, flowing gradients, layered mountains, stars, snow, rain, particles and film grain. GPU shaders, crisp on any display.
Play a folder of frames or a clip as a looping layer. Slice any video into frames with one click.
Same wallpaper on each display, or one scene stretched across all of them with per-monitor guides in the editor.
Edit this wallpaper, open Mural or jump to the next one straight from the desktop menu. Playlists rotate on a schedule.
A real canvas with drag handles, a floating action bar on the selected layer, undo and redo, and a properties panel for every detail: fonts, formats, colours, animation effects, canvas size.
Pick a canvas resolution from Full HD to 4K, ultrawide or portrait, and layers reflow to match. Warp any photo into an editable mesh and drag its points.
Or skip the editor: Edit on desktop puts the controls over your real wallpaper so you see changes live.
Everything below is free to use with your own files. The AI layers run on Mural Pro, or on your own API keys if you prefer.
Tell Mural "add a slow snow effect and a daily quote at the bottom" and it edits your layers, not a flat image. You can still move, restyle or delete every piece afterwards.
Generate a still from a prompt, matched to your canvas, with an upscale pass for 4K. Turn any picture into a few seconds of motion and get it back as an editable image sequence that loops seamlessly.
Nothing to configure: Mural Pro includes the AI. Prefer your own Anthropic, Stability and fal.ai keys? Paste them in Settings and everything works for free.
Every editing feature is free, forever. Pro plans add a monthly allowance of AI credits that covers edits, images and animations. Cancel anytime; credits reset on the 1st.
| What a credit buys | Credits |
|---|---|
| Prompt help (turns an idea into a strong prompt) | 1 |
| Scene edit with AI | 5 |
| Scene edit with the best model | 20 |
| Image generation, generative fill or cut-out | 5 |
| Upscale for 4K canvases | 2 |
| Animation, priced by clip length: 480p 4 · 720p 6 · 1080p 15 · 1440p 22 · 4K 34 credits per second (pick the frame count; a 121-frame 720p clip is 30) | 4–30 / s |
Mural is a new app and the installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen shows that notice. Click More info, then Run anyway. The installer is the exact file published on our GitHub releases page.
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, and a GPU with up-to-date drivers (anything from the last ten years is fine). It installs per user with no admin rights, and about 300 MB on disk.
No. Mural pauses rendering while a fullscreen app is in front, and can pause on battery too. You can also cap it at 30 or 24 fps and lower the render quality in Settings.
On your PC, in your user profile. Scenes are plain JSON plus the pictures you imported. Nothing is uploaded unless you use an AI feature, which sends only what that feature needs.
After checkout you receive a license key by email. Paste it in Settings → Mural Pro and the AI tools light up. Your plan's credits renew on the 1st of each month. Cancel from the email receipt or your Lemon Squeezy customer portal anytime.
Yes. Settings has fields for Anthropic (scene editing), Stability AI (images) and fal.ai (animation). With your own keys there's no subscription and no credit limit.