Your desktop,
alive and editable.
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 0.1.13 · 100 MB · 64-bit · installs per user, no admin needed · all releases
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.
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.
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.
Animated effects
Aurora, flowing gradients, layered mountains, stars, snow, rain, particles and film grain. GPU shaders, crisp on any display.
Image sequences & video
Play a folder of frames or a clip as a looping layer. Slice any video into frames with one click.
Multi-monitor done right
Same wallpaper on each display, or one scene stretched across all of them with per-monitor guides in the editor.
Right-click your desktop
Edit this wallpaper, open Mural or jump to the next one straight from the desktop menu. Playlists rotate on a schedule.
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.
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
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.
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 the 1st.
Free
- All layers, widgets and effects
- Multi-monitor and playlists
- Image sequences and video
- Bring your own API keys for AI
Pro
- About 8 animations, or 50 images
- Scene editing with AI
- Generative fill and cut-out
- No keys to set up
Plus
- About 25 animations, or 160 images
- Everything in Pro
- Room to iterate on prompts
- Same features, more credits
- Unused credits do not roll over
Studio
- About 65 animations, or 400 images
- Everything in Plus
- For wallpaper makers and streamers
- Lowest price per credit
| 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) | 4–34 / s |
Good to know
Windows says "Windows protected your PC" when I run the installer.
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.
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?
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. Then: Edit with AI sends the wallpaper's layer list (no pictures) to Anthropic; Generate, Remove background and Generative fill send the picture to Stability AI; Animate uploads the picture to fal.ai, which hosts it on a public link while the clip renders. With Mural Pro these go through Mural's own relay, which stores only your license key and credit count. With your own keys they go straight to the provider. Mural has no analytics or telemetry.
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 the 1st of each month. Cancel from the email receipt or your Lemon Squeezy customer portal anytime.
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.