Modern
Flowing colour mesh and blurred album art.
Your desktop,
painted by your music.
Aura Live Wallpaper turns the background behind your desktop icons into a living scene. It takes its colours from the album art of whatever you're playing and moves to the beat.
Seven styles, one soundtrack
Pick one in the app and it's applied to your desktop instantly. Every style uses the album's palette and the same frosted-glass now-playing panel.
3D
A GPU particle field orbiting a lit album-art card.
Fluid
Swirling paint stirred by the music.
Smoke
Coloured smoke puffed out on the beat.
Ink
Nozzles fire ink on bass, mids and highs.
Lightning
Strikes on the kick, crackles on snares and hats.
Fire
Beat-driven jets set a stack of logs alight.
Nothing playing?
An animated nebula drifts across your desktop until the next song starts.
Made to live on your desktop
Light, native and private. It's a real wallpaper, not a window.
🖼️
Really behind your icons
Renders as the actual desktop wallpaper across all your monitors and restores your own wallpaper when you exit.
🎨
Album-art colours
Takes a palette from the cover of every song and fades smoothly between tracks.
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Moves to the beat
Bass, mids and highs are detected from your PC's audio output, live and on-device.
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Glass now-playing panel
Title, artist, album, track number, genres, source app, shuffle and repeat, and a sleek progress bar.
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Tune each style
Per-style intensity and beat-sensitivity sliders, plus a 15, 30 or 60 fps cap.
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Polite by default
Pauses for full-screen games and videos and when battery saver is on.
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Keep a frame
Save the current frame as your normal Windows wallpaper with one click.
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100% local
No account, no tracking, no network. Nothing ever leaves your PC.
A proper Windows app
A native WinUI 3 window with Mica and glass styling. Choose a style, switch the live wallpaper on or off, start with Windows and tune everything, or control it from the tray icon.
Download Aura Live Wallpaper
Version 1.0.2 for Windows 10 (2004+) and Windows 11, x64. Per-user install, no admin needed.