Undead Wallpaper

maocide

About this app

Your Phone, Your Rules.

- UNLEASH YOUR VIDEOS: Turn any video file on your phone into a high-performance live wallpaper. From epic gaming moments to your favorite anime loops, if you have it, you can background it.

- REAL-TIME LIVE PREVIEW: Tune your setup with instant visual feedback. Sliders for zoom, pan, and positioning reflect changes directly on the preview as you adjust them, with a hold-to-peek full-screen view to check your framing before applying.

- PER-VIDEO CONTROL: You're the director. Tap the sliders icon to customize every single video individually! Tweak zoom, rotate, and reposition it to fit your screen perfectly. Adjust playback speed, fine-tune brightness, set volume levels, and change Status Bar icon colors (White/Black) so your clock and battery are always visible.

- UNRESTRICTED PLAYLISTS: No artificial limits. Queue up limitless videos in full drag-and-drop playlists. Smart grouping and optimized transitions keep playback seamless across "Loop All" or "Shuffle" modes.

- HOME SCREEN GESTURES: Control the action without opening the app. Bind double-tap or triple-tap gestures directly on your home screen to instantly play/pause playback or skip to the next clip in your playlist.

- DYNAMIC PARALLAX: Give your home screen real depth. The custom OpenGL engine intercepts your launcher's swipe events, smoothly shifting your video's perspective as you scroll through your pages—without tanking your frame rate or eating your battery.

- SYSTEM COLORS MATCH YOUR VIDEO: Fully integrated with Material You. Your Android system colors dynamically adapt to match the color palette of the active video wallpaper.

- SMART START TIMES: Control how your wallpaper reacts when you unlock your phone. Resume where you left off, restart the video, or jump to a random frame.

- 100% FREE & HONEST: A true passion project. That means zero ads, zero in-app purchases, zero background tracking, and completely offline. Full source code is on GitHub because transparency matters.

A Note From The Developer:
This app is personal. It marks a comeback after a long hiatus from coding... a passion clawing its way back to the surface. It's undead because some things are just too stubborn to die. This app was built by an enthusiast, for enthusiasts. Enjoy the freedom.

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PROJECT & SOURCE CODE
UndeadWallpaper is a free and open-source project. You can view the code, report issues, or follow the development process here:
- GitHub (Source & Issues): https://github.com/maocide/UndeadWallpaper

Ratings and reviews

This is THE best app for turning videos into wallpapers. SO much better than all the 'top' rated results when searching. Lots of customization options, very intuitive and user friendly UI. And also no ads! The developer also seems very passionate and dedicated (on Reddit) so definitely love supporting indie!

Really nice! Question- does it pause if I go to system settings or call logs or after lockscreen timeouts? Great to have: * If there is an option to change the frame rate like to 30fps or 24fps. It would be a battery saver. * Support of gif animations would be great 🙂

(first time leaving a review so bare with me) does exactly what it says, interface & tools are super straightforward & easy to grasp. learned more about battery drain & file formats of live wallpapers in these reviews' responses from the dev than hours of googling prior lol. converting to mp4 is supported on the honor phone i'm using so that didn't require a separate app. my lil motion jpgs made for really sweet live wallpaper that's working great & image quality didn't suffer either. A+++

What’s new

🧟 v1.4.2: Floating Monitor & Kinetic Preview Update!
• FLOATING MONITOR: Sticky video preview that dynamically tracks your scrolling across settings.
• KINETIC PREVIEWS: Interactive live preview that reacts to setting changes in real time, plus hold-to-peek.
• REFINED TRANSITIONS: Enhanced rendering pipeline for even smoother transitions between videos and parallax.
• INSTANT ENGINE SYNC: Sub-millisecond in-memory event bus applies settings at once, with smarter storage cleanup.