Neither Windows nor macOS lets you use your own video as the desktop wallpaper out of the box, so you need a small helper app. This guide covers the options that work with our MP4 loops, platform by platform. (Updated October 2026.)
They are short MP4 videos made from our still wallpapers with an AI image-to-video model (how they are made). Each clip lasts about five seconds (81 frames at 16 frames per second). Landscape loops are 3840×2160, portrait loops 2160×3840 and ultrawide loops 3440×1440. Files average about 11 MB and have no audio track. Every clip also has a lighter preview version: 960×540 for landscape, 540×960 for portrait and 1280×540 for ultrawide.
The clips are not specially processed to loop, so in some of them you may notice a small jump when the video starts over. Scenes with gentle, repetitive motion, like rain, drifting clouds or falling leaves, usually hide it best.
Lively Wallpaper is a free, open-source app that plays video files as your desktop background, including across several monitors.
Wallpaper Engine is a paid Windows app on Steam with a large community library. It can also import your own video files (look for Open Wallpaper → Open from File). Our files have no audio, so there is nothing to mute.
macOS has no built-in way to use your own video as the desktop wallpaper. The options we can point to:
Android supports live wallpapers, but setting your own video usually needs an app. Search Google Play for "video live wallpaper" and choose a well-reviewed one. They generally work the same way: pick the MP4, preview it, then set it for the home screen, the lock screen or both. Use a portrait loop so it fills the screen.
Some phones can do it without an extra app. On many Samsung Galaxy phones, for example, you can open a short video in the Gallery app and set it as the lock screen wallpaper.
iOS doesn't accept video files as wallpapers, but it does accept Live Photos on the Lock Screen. To use one of our loops:
Live Photo wallpapers don't play continuously: they move briefly when you wake the iPhone. That is how iOS handles them, not a problem with the file.
Try the preview version of the same loop (960×540, 540×960 or 1280×540). It is much lighter and still looks fine as a background, especially on smaller screens.
Turn on your helper app's options to pause on battery or when a full-screen app is open.
Some clips show it more than others, because they aren't built as perfect loops. Try another scene from the same theme, preferably one with soft, repetitive motion.
If a particular file won't play in any app, please tell us through the contact page with its address so we can check it.
Animated wallpapers follow the same terms as our still images: free for personal use on your own devices, and for non-commercial projects with a visible credit link to lofistudy247.com. Please don't resell them or redistribute them in bulk. For any other use, ask first through the contact page.
Ready to try one? Browse the full collection of animated lofi wallpapers or pair one with our 24/7 lofi stream for a complete ambient setup.
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