Windows 11 may not support animated wallpapers out of the box, but you can liven up your desktop thanks to a third-party app.

All of these are animated wallpapers that really bring your desktop to life, with both 2D and 3D animations at play.

and the only way to currently get animated wallpapers in Windows is to install a third-party app like Wallpaper Engine. Microsoft used to support videos as wallpapers with its Windows DreamScene ...

Kisselev also revealed that the wallpaper engine was designed to adapt seamlessly ... in Windows 11 versions 22H2 and 23H2 – dynamic wallpapers never became an official offering.