11 Best Live Wallpaper Apps for Android

Android phones have always been optimized for the user, with an operating system that allows you to customize the look and feel in many ways. You can use different launchers, themes and icons on your device.

However, the simplest customization options you have for your phone are the lock screen and home screen wallpapers. And you can take it a step further by installing motion pictures in your background. Check out our top picks for the best live wallpaper apps for Android that you'll love.

1. Forest Live Wallpaper

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Forest Live Wallpaper application provides soothing animated wallpapers with many beautiful animation options. It can match the weather outside and even have some nice surprises during the holiday season, such as bright stars during Christmas and fireworks during New Year's.

The app also has a night setting, which can make your wallpaper more visible after dark. Although the app isn't updated often, it's still one of the best live wallpaper apps you can use for your Android phone.

2. Muzei Live Wallpaper

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Muzei Live Wallpaper shows different artworks on lock screen every day. It can also change the background between your favorite photos every few hours.

One of the unique things about this app is that it's developer-friendly, with the app's source code available at code.muzei.co. This means that anyone can use the source code to manipulate and develop their own unique live wallpapers.

3. Asteroids

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Space themed Asteroid lets you customize your live wallpaper, from background color to asteroid type and color etc.

In addition to being a regular Live Wallpaper app, it also has a still image mode that will display a photo every 10 seconds. This is useful for those who want to minimize battery consumption while keeping your lock screen interesting.

For more cool features and to unlock different asteroid designs, you can upgrade to the premium version of the app.

4. Cartogram

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If you travel a lot, you can easily use the map as your wallpaper. Map tracks your location and sets wallpaper using your location.

If you want to customize the wallpaper that the app flash, this is possible as it can easily be adjusted to your taste through the app settings. You don't have to worry about this too much as the app comes with lots of high quality live wallpapers that won't let you down.

5. Rainpaper

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Rainpaper synthesizes the best live wallpapers from Reddit. With this app you can customize weather effects like rain and fog to use as wallpaper. You can also choose the color, frequency and type of raindrops depending on your preference.

In addition, Rainpaper allows you to synchronize the actual weather situation with the application through the local weather synchronization feature. You can choose any photo from your device to be your wallpaper along with the live background.

6. Paperland Live Wallpaper

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The Paperland Live Wallpaper app hasn't been updated in a while, but it's still worth a look. It has funny landscape wallpapers for your phone screen. You can set sunrise and sunset times, and even the weather in the app, through integration with AccuWeather. It works even if you are not using it as a weather app for Android.

In the free version of this app you can choose 3 wallpaper themes: Quiet night, grass and desert. You can upgrade if you want more options.

7. Borderlight Live Wallpaper

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Borderlight Live Wallpaper is a simple but very neat option. This live wallpaper app displays a multicolored moving border around the edges of the screen. It can be adjusted to fit any screen size without any problem.

You can also choose to add a normal background image to pair with it, in addition to an edge lighting effect. In addition, the application also allows users to set the position and size of the notch, which will give a nicer look to the background of the gadget.

8. 4D Live Wallpaper

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4D Live Wallpaper app is a collection of the best AMOLED live wallpapers. It has a cool 3D depth effect live wallpaper, with many options for different people with their own preferences.

Another great thing is that although 4D Live Wallpaper offers many great wallpapers, it consumes very little battery. And best of all, if you're a tech geek, you get a wallpaper that's controllable by smartphone sensors.

9. Wall.Engine

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Wall.Engine gives you the option to use live wallpapers on your lock screen and home screen. It also comes with an automatic wallpaper changer, which rotates the live wallpapers on a schedule.

There's a lot to choose from, so you can definitely find something to suit your taste. In addition to live wallpapers, you can also download ringtones from this application.

10. ZEDGE Wallpapers & Ringtones

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Zedge is an all-in-one wallpaper app. The application contains a rich collection of live wallpapers of all topics, from space to spirituality, in addition to static wallpapers. You can use Zedge Credits to get premium content (which you can buy with real money or earn by watching ads).

The app also has a huge library of free ringtones and alarm sounds that you can browse through. This means you don't have to download additional apps to discover different ringtones; You can access everything in the Zedge app itself and decide on the spot if the ringtone is right for your wallpaper.

11. Rad Walls

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If you like the classic 1980s feel, Rad Walls is the perfect live wallpaper app for you. While admittedly the app's user interface needs a bit of improvement, the wallpapers themselves are high quality and look really eye-catching. Of the total 31 live wallpapers in the app, 16 are free and the rest can be purchased through the Pro version of the app.

One main reason to consider Rad Walls over other live wallpaper apps is that the developer claims that it doesn't drain the battery as "each live wallpaper is just a simple 6-second looping video with effects and pre-rendered 3D graphics".

Isabella Humphrey

Update 22 April 2023