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| Smarter discovery, collections, notifications and a new lookmajor This update redesigns the whole app around the wallpapers themselves: less clutter, a faster way from seeing a wallpaper to having it on your desktop, and a proper place for your own creations. New · Wallpaper drill - click any wallpaper to see it big, with similar wallpapers filling the page around it; click one of those to keep going · Similar wallpapers for your own images - pin a picture yo… | 25103788 | |
| Playlists, create up to 20 animations per day, lock screen syncing and moremajor Version 0.3 is here... You can now create up to 20 animations a day! This is thanks to our new lightweight animation model. New · Playlists · Lock screen wallpaper automatic syncing (Windows) · Energy system , replacing separate limits Improvements · CPU usage significantly reduced when the app is hidden in the tray · Animations now render 5x faster | 24750087 | |
| Update 0.2.236 - August 10, 2026 The most-asked-for change since the limits shipped: you can now buy extra animations. The free allowance also grew, and got faster. New · Buy extra animations - packs of 5, 10, or 20 through Steam, at $1 per animation (roughly what one animation costs us to render). Bought animations never expire and stack on top of the free allowance. The "More animations" link sits in the studio, next to "Why… | — | |
| Update 0.2.230 - August 6, 2026 New · New animation engine - animations are now generated by a different model (MiniMax H3) running on our own servers. Motion looks smoother and more natural on most wallpapers, and picture quality improves on some. If it is ever unavailable, the previous engine takes over automatically, and the wait stays around five minutes either way. · Discover: Trending and Recent - a Trending row, plus a… | — | |
| Update 0.2.208 - July 15, 2026 Mostly fixes this time. The big one, reported by several of you, is the app closing a second after launch on some PCs. If that was you, it should now start normally, and it will tell you how to fix things if it can't. New · Stretch fit mode - a new wallpaper fit option that stretches the video to fill monitors whose shape doesn't match the wallpaper, instead of cropping it. Improvements · When… | — | |
| Update 0.2.196 - July 8, 2026 This update is about surfacing wallpapers better: search understands more, and the home page shows fewer duplicates and more honest picks. New · Search by mood - search now understands a wallpaper's mood and style, not just what it depicts, so queries like "cozy" or "dark and moody" find fitting wallpapers even when those words never appear in the title. Improvements · Home rows no longer repea… | — | |
| Update 0.2.192 - July 7, 2026 New · Limits, explained - the create studio now shows how many animations you have ready and when the next one arrives, and a "Why the limits?" link opens the full breakdown: what each creation costs, how image and animation allowances refill, and how unused animation slots bank up. · Original creator credit - remixed wallpapers now show an "original by" line crediting the creator whose work th… | — | |
| Update 0.2.187 - July 5, 2026 Few improvements and fixing frequent live wallpaper display stability issue. Improvements · Seamless wallpaper switching - picking a new wallpaper now hands over directly from the old video to the new one. No more still image flashing on screen while the video loads. (Windows) · The wallpaper resumes almost instantly after you close a fullscreen game or unlock your PC. (Windows) Fixes · Fixed t… | — | |
| Update 0.2.186 - July 4, 2026 The feedback mentioning picture quality were heard: this update improves it on both the generation side and the playback side. New · Per-monitor wallpapers - a screen selector in the top-left corner lets you target all monitors or a single one. Playing, generating, and importing apply to the selected screen, so each monitor can run its own wallpaper. (Windows) Improvements · New animations gene… | — | |
| Update 0.2.180 - July 3, 2026 Another day another set of updates. Thanks to everyone giving valuable feedback! New · Pause while covered - wallpaper playback pauses when a window fully covers a monitor or the session is locked, and resumes the moment the desktop is visible again. Saves GPU and battery; can be turned off in Settings. (Windows) · Creator updates on launch - if your published wallpapers earned new keeps since… | — | |
| Update 0.2.162 - July 2, 2026 A quick follow-up to today's update, focused on a smoother home screen and faster browsing. Improvements · Community browsing is much faster - Explore rows, search, and the gallery now load almost instantly. · Deleting the wallpaper you are playing now hands playback to your newest remaining wallpaper instead of leaving the screen empty. · With an empty library, the home screen now shows a prop… | — | |
| Update 0.2.157 - July 2, 2026 Most of this update comes straight from your feedback: the Favorites rename, the clearer Favorites button, and the still-image badge all started as player suggestions. Keep it coming. New · 10 new languages - Japanese, Korean, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Italian, Ukrainian, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Czech. The app is now available in 18 languages. · Seamless animation loops - generate… | — | |
| Update 0.2.136 - June 30, 2026 New · High-priority startup - your wallpaper can load right at login, before the desktop finishes coming up. Turn it on from the first-launch startup prompt or in Settings. (Windows) · Update prompt - when a new version is ready, the app shows a prompt with a one-click Quit to update. Improvements · Wallpapers are added to your library only when you bookmark them, not automatically when you pla… | — | |
| Update 0.2.104 - June 26, 2026 New · KDE Plasma video wallpapers (Linux) - Animated wallpapers run natively on KDE, keeping your desktop icons and layout in place. · Leaderboard ranks by keeps - Creators are now ranked by how many people keep their wallpapers running, instead of by saves. · Keep and save counts on the spotlight - The featured wallpaper shows how many people keep it and how many have saved it. Improvements ·… | — | |
| Update Notes for Jun 21 Wallpaper Animator Update Daily generation replaces energy Energy has been replaced with a daily generation allowance for full-game owners: 10 image generations and 3 video animations per day, reset at midnight UTC. No credits to spend or save. In-app energy purchases have been removed. Unlimited community downloads The download cap in demo on community wallpapers has been removed. Keeps count… | — | |
| Creator leaderboard + rewards for popular wallpapers Every creator can now compete & gets extra energy depending on how liked the wallpapers they share are. These updates are meant to incentivize high quality wallpaper creation. | — | |
| Demo release & app redesign You can't create wallpapers in the demo but you can use any animated wallpaper from the community. Also the app looks more modern now. | — | |
| Support for 7 new languages! Newly supported languages include: English, German, Spanish, French, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, and Simplified Chinese. | — | |
| Wallpaper Animator is now Kinett Same app, same Steam library entry, same purchases. New name. Your wallpapers, energy balance, and library are untouched. Why? "Wallpaper Animator" is descriptive but generic, and sits next to dozens of similarly-named apps in search. What you might notice · The app window, Steam library entry, and Start menu shortcut now say "Kinett" · Steam will install an update with the rename · If you had… | — | |
| Linux support is here! Still work in progress but several distros already successfully tested: - Ubuntu 22 & 24 - KDE Plasma - Arch - Pop OS | — | |
| Patch Notes — April 25 New · Energy system replaces credits — daily regen, simpler usage, cleaner UI · Better image generation — sharper results, improved prompt handling · Semantic search (Explore) — find wallpapers by meaning, not just keywords · Drag & drop import — drop any image to animate it instantly Improvements · Smoother generation flow (no stuck or orphaned tasks) · Window position and size now persist · M… | — |
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| 6 Sep 2026new | Sun | 15:40 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 25153029 | public | 1 | — |
| 5 Sep 2026 | Sat | 09:41 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 25139264 | public | 1 | — |
| 4 Sep 2026 | Fri | 22:39 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 25133506 | public | 1 | — |
| 4 Sep 2026 | Fri | 21:22 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 25128626 | public | 1 | — |
| 4 Sep 2026 | Fri | 12:41 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 25123619 | public | 1 | — |
| 3 Sep 2026 | Thu | 15:09 | Smarter discovery, collections, notifications and a new look | 25103788 | public | — | — |
| 31 Aug 2026 | Mon | 12:55 | No patch notes · unannounced build | 25022997 | public | — | — |