Snowy night
Windows 10 / 11 · free download
Your desktop,
Your desktop,
moving.
Mural turns your wallpaper into a living scene: your photos, animated effects and live widgets, stacked as layers you can change any time. Free forever. No account. Pauses when you game.
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Ten scenes to start from
- Free forever
- No account
- No telemetry
- Cancel Pro anytime
Version 0.1.16 · 100 MB download, about 300 MB installed · 64-bit · installs per user, no admin needed · all releases · what's new
AI, on the wallpaper itself
One sentence → a new wallpaper.
Tell Mural what to change and it edits your layers, not a flat picture. Everything stays movable afterwards. Needs Mural Pro or your own API keys; the rest of the app never does.
Before
After
Add snow and move the clock up5 credits
Before
After
Bring to life· a still picture becomes a 5 s idle loop, like a game login screen30 credits
Why Mural
Everything is a layer. Nothing is final.
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.
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Photoshop-style layers
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.
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Live widgets
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.
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Animated effects
Aurora, flowing gradients, layered mountains, stars, snow, rain, particles and film grain. GPU shaders, crisp on any display.
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Image sequences & video
Play a folder of frames or a clip as a looping layer. Slice any video into frames with one click.
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Multi-monitor done right
Same wallpaper on each display, or one scene stretched across all of them with per-monitor guides in the editor.
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Controls on the desktop
An eye button at the bottom-right of your desktop hides your icons with a click and opens the Mural menu on right-click: edit this wallpaper, next wallpaper, arrange icons. The same menu sits in the tray and under the desktop's "Show more options". Playlists rotate on a schedule.
Start from a scene
Ten starting points. Change anything.
Open one in Mural (it installs straight into your library) or download the .mural file and double-click it. Every scene is made of effects and widgets, so it needs no pictures and weighs almost nothing.
Synthwave
Synthwave
Magenta-to-cyan gradient, film grain, a bold glowing clock and a quote.
Rainy evening
Rainy evening
Deep blue aurora, falling rain, and the weather for your city in the middle.
Aurora
Aurora
The sample scene: northern lights, stars, mountains, clock, date, weather and a quote.
Minimal clock
Minimal clock
A big thin clock and the date on a near-black gradient. Nothing else.
Space
Space
Dense stars, drifting particles, and your CPU and memory in a quiet corner.
Cozy cabin
Cozy cabin
Warm amber tones, light snow, and a serif quote to read with your coffee.
Ocean
Neon city
Neon city
Pink and cyan glow, rain on the glass, film grain, and a clock that hums.
Forest dawn
"Open in Mural" needs Mural installed; the browser will ask before handing the link to the app. The download works anywhere: double-click the file on a PC with Mural.
The editor
Built like a design tool, not a settings dialog.
A real canvas with drag handles and corner resize, a right-click menu on every layer, undo and redo, keyboard shortcuts, and a properties panel for every detail: fonts, formats, colours, motion 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.
The layer set
Every kind of layer, one Add button.
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.
Media
- Imageany picture, cover or fit
- Editable meshwarp a photo by dragging points
- Videolooping mp4 or webm
- Image sequenceframes played as animation
- Web wallpaperany http(s) page as the wallpaper (free)
- Multi-path animationseveral AI paths from one picture, random order, pauses and idle holds
- Desktop iconsone-click hide/show button, auto-arrange around the picture
- My animationsevery animation you make, reusable anywhere
- Frames from a videoslice a clip, loop it
- Textany font, shadows, styles
Live widgets
- Clock12/24h, glow, letter-spacing
- Dateany format
- Weatherconditions, high/low, wind
- System statsCPU, memory, uptime
- Quotea new one every refresh
- Photo feedpictures from an online feed
Effects
- Auroranorthern lights
- Mountainslayered silhouettes with mist
- Flowing gradientslow colour waves
- Stars, snow, rainparticle systems
- Particlesfloating motes of light
- Film graintexture for flat art
AI PRO
- AI imagedescribe it, it's painted at your canvas size
- AI sequencea prompt or your picture becomes a looping animation, up to 4K
- Edit with AI"make it warmer, move the clock up"
- Generative fillpaint an area, AI repaints it
- Remove backgroundcut a subject out of its picture
AI that keeps your layers
Say it. See it. Then keep editing.
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 plays out and back so it never jumps.
Nothing to configure: Mural Pro includes the AI. Prefer your own Anthropic, Stability and fal.ai keys? Paste them in Settings and Mural uses them instead; you pay those providers directly and no Mural Pro is needed.
Mural vs Wallpaper Engine
Keep Wallpaper Engine for the Workshop. Use Mural to make your own.
Real layers, live widgets, and AI that edits the scene instead of replacing it. Mural is free, so try both.
| Mural | Wallpaper Engine | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free. Pro is optional and only for the AI tools. | One-time purchase on Steam. |
| Make your own | Built around it: a layer stack with drag, crop, blend modes, undo, and your own photos and videos. | Has an editor, but most people pick from the Workshop. |
| Live widgets | Built in: clock, date, weather, system stats, quotes and photo feeds, styled per layer. | Through individual wallpapers and web wallpapers; depends on what the author built. |
| AI edit and animate | Yes (Pro): describe a change and the layers change; animate any picture into a loop. | No built-in generative AI. |
| Workshop / gallery | Ten starter scenes above, plus whatever you make or import. | Steam Workshop: a huge library made by its community. Wallpaper Engine wins here. |
Pricing
Free to use. Pro when you want the AI.
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 your billing date.
Founder pricing Founder prices end Oct 22, 11:59 pm ET
Free
CA$0
Your own files, or your own AI keys
- All layers, widgets and effects
- Multi-monitor and playlists
- Image sequences and video
- Bring your own API keys for AI
Pro
CA$5/ month now · CA$6 from Oct 23
Subscribe before Oct 23, 2026 and your plan keeps its current price for as long as that subscription stays active. Switching plans or resubscribing uses the price at that time.
250 credits a month
- About 8 five-second 720p clips, or 50 images, or 1 six-second 4K clip a month
- Scene editing, generative fill and cut-out
- No keys to set up
- A 4K clip of 8 s or longer (over 250 credits) needs Plus
Plus
CA$12/ month now · CA$14 from Oct 23
Subscribe before Oct 23, 2026 and your plan keeps its current price for as long as that subscription stays active. Switching plans or resubscribing uses the price at that time.
800 credits a month · 3.2× Pro's credits for under 2.5× the price
- About 25 clips or 160 images a month
- Everything in Pro
- Room to iterate on prompts
- Any single clip fits, even 10 seconds at 4K
Studio
CA$25/ month now · CA$29 from Oct 23
Subscribe before Oct 23, 2026 and your plan keeps its current price for as long as that subscription stays active. Switching plans or resubscribing uses the price at that time.
2,000 credits a month
- About 65 clips or 400 images a month
- Everything in Plus
- For wallpaper makers and streamers
Your first month comes with 25 extra welcome credits (about five AI edits). They expire at your first renewal.
Clip counts assume 5-second 720p clips (30 credits); images and AI edits assume 5 credits each. Credits reset on your billing date each month and unused credits do not roll over. Failed jobs are refunded. Prices in CAD; Lemon Squeezy is the merchant of record and handles taxes and refunds.
Credit details
| What a credit buys | Credits |
|---|---|
| Prompt help (turns an idea into a strong prompt) | 1 |
| Scene edit with AI (Fast) | 5 |
| Scene edit with the best model | 20 |
| Image generation, generative fill or cut-out | 5 |
| Upscale for 4K canvases | 2 |
| Animation at 480p, per second of clip | 4 / s |
| Animation at 720p, per second (a 5-second clip is 30) | 6 / s |
| Animation at 1080p, per second (6 to 10 s clips) | 15 / s |
| Animation at 1440p, per second (6 to 10 s clips) | 22 / s |
| Animation at 4K, per second (6 to 10 s clips; 6 s is 204) | 34 / s |
You pick the frame count before generating and the price is shown on the button. Credits are shared across all your PCs on the same license.
Questions
Good to know
Is it safe? Why the SmartScreen warning?
Mural is a new app from a small developer and the installer is not code-signed yet, so Windows shows "Windows protected your PC" the first time. The installer is the exact file published on the GitHub releases page, and its SHA-256 is in the footer so you can check it. To run it:
- In the blue SmartScreen box, click More info.
- Click Run anyway.
It installs into your own user folder and needs no admin rights. Only the widgets you add (weather, quotes, photo feeds) and update checks go online; nothing about you is sent.
Do I need AI?
No. Everything except the AI tools is free and never asks for an account. Layers, widgets, effects, videos, playlists and multi-monitor all work without Pro.
What does it need?
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.
Does it slow down games?
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.
Where are my wallpapers stored, and what leaves my PC?
On your PC, in your user profile. Scenes are plain JSON plus the pictures you imported. Only the widgets you add (weather, quotes, photo feeds) and update checks go online; nothing about you is sent. The AI tools are the only ones that upload your content: Edit with AI sends the wallpaper's layer list (no pictures) to Anthropic; Improve prompt sends your idea to Anthropic; Generate sends your prompt (not a picture) to Stability AI, and an upscale sends the generated image back to Stability; Remove background and Generative fill send that picture to Stability AI; Animate from a picture uploads it to fal.ai, which hosts it on a temporary public link while the clip renders, and animating from a prompt sends the prompt to Stability AI for a still, then uploads that still to fal.ai the same way. With Mural Pro these go through Mural's own relay, which keeps your license key, your credit count, the last 40 charges and refunds (operation, cost, time, job id; deleted 90 days after your last AI use), animation job records for up to 6 hours, and a welcome-credit record, and nothing else. With your own keys they go straight to the provider. Mural has no analytics or telemetry. Details in the privacy page.
How does Pro work?
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 your billing date each month. Cancel from the email receipt or the billing portal anytime. Founder pricing: subscribe before Oct 23, 2026 and your plan keeps its current price for as long as that subscription stays active. Switching plans or resubscribing uses the price at that time.
What if I run out of credits?
The AI buttons show their price and simply stop working when you are short; everything else in Mural keeps working. Your allowance comes back on your billing date, you can move to a bigger plan in the billing portal, or paste your own API keys in Settings to pay the providers directly with no limit.
Will my wallpapers keep working if I cancel?
Yes. Everything you made, including AI-generated pictures and animations, is stored on your PC and keeps working. Only the AI buttons stop until you subscribe again or add your own keys.
How do refunds work?
Every Pro plan has a 14-day, no-questions refund. Reply to your Lemon Squeezy receipt email or open a support issue and the charge is reversed. The full policy is on the refunds page.
When do credits reset?
On your billing date each month. Unused credits do not roll over, and credits spent on a job that fails are refunded.
Can I use my own AI keys instead?
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.