# Taiizor/Sucrose

Sucrose is a versatile wallpaper engine that brings life to your desktop with a wide range of interactive wallpapers.

Repository: https://github.com/Taiizor/Sucrose
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/sucrose
Homepage: https://sucrose.dev
Language: C#
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: engine, wallpaper, wallpaper-app, wallpaper-engine, wallpaper-engine-free, desktop, live-wallpaper, wallpaperengine, wallpapers, desktop-wallpaper, dynamic-wallpaper, wallpaper-changer, fluent, wallpaper-application, windows-app, winui, wpf, widgets, windows, fluentui
Last push: 2026-08-12T19:44:42+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 92/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 92, longevity 83
- inputs: {"age_days": 1169, "days_push": 21, "days_rel": 59, "gap_med": 18.0, "n_releases_24m": 25}
- flags: no_readme
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1503, forks 68 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:54.648080+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, graphics, animation, audio-processing, image-processing, video-processing
- domain: desktop-applications, windows, media, entertainment, developer-tools
- platform: windows, cross-platform
- tags: wallpaper-engine, live-wallpaper, wpf, winui, fluentui, audio-visualizer, webview-wallpapers, open-source, desktop

## Member repositories
- Taiizor/Sucrose (main) score 92

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:54.648080+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:32:47.233310+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - homepage: https://sucrose.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T11:37:26.892414+00:00, sha 17840d7eeff1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.