Taiizor/Sucrose
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Sucrose is a versatile wallpaper engine that brings life to your desktop with a wide range of interactive wallpapers. observed · 2026-10-05
Health v2 · maintenance only
91/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 84
- Longevity 87
Flags: no_readme
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-22. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 17
- age_days: 1218
- days_rel: 108
- days_push: 17
- n_releases_24m: 22
Adoption not part of the score
1545 stars · 73 forks observed · 2026-10-05
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Sucrose is a free, open-source wallpaper engine for Windows that renders interactive live wallpapers from GIFs, videos, URLs, web pages, YouTube, and applications. It includes eight rendering engines, a real-time FFT audio visualizer API, and a JavaScript system API exposing live hardware data to web wallpapers.
Use cases
- set live video wallpapers on windows desktop
- audio-reactive wallpaper visualizer
- use a webpage as my desktop wallpaper
- youtube video as wallpaper
- pause wallpaper when gaming fullscreen
- multi-monitor dynamic wallpapers
- wallpaper that reacts to cpu and gpu usage
- free wallpaper engine alternative
When to choose
- you want a free open-source alternative to Wallpaper Engine on Windows 10/11
- you need audio-reactive or system-aware interactive wallpapers
- you want web-based wallpapers with a JavaScript API for live hardware data
- you need multi-monitor and ARM64/x86/x64 support
When to avoid
- you need live wallpapers on macOS or Linux
- you want a large built-in wallpaper marketplace like Steam's Wallpaper Engine
- you run Windows 7 or older unsupported systems
Facets
application · maturity active
gui graphics animation audio-processing image-processing video-processing desktop-applications windows media entertainment developer-tools windows cross-platform wallpaper-engine live-wallpaper wpf winui fluentui audio-visualizer webview-wallpapers open-source desktop
1 source
- homepage: https://sucrose.dev · fetched 2026-08-29 · 17840d7eeff1
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Taiizor/Sucrose | main | 91 |
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