Desktop Overlays

DesktopOverlays

Your desktop is the screen you stare at all day, so why does it have to be boring? DesktopOverlays lets you put whatever you want on top of it. A looping GIF in the corner, a video that reacts to your music, a little buddy that sits on the edge of your game window. You place it, you size it, you forget the editor exists. It just lives there.

Put anything, anywhere

Drag images, GIFs, and videos straight onto your screen. Move them, scale them, rotate them, fade them, stack them however you like. Got more than one monitor? Each display gets its own set of overlays, so you can go wild on one and keep another clean.

No clunky editor window

Editing happens right on the overlay itself. Flip on edit mode, grab the thing, and drop it where it belongs. When you are done, it gets out of the way and lets you work or play.

Pin overlays to your apps

This is the fun part. Stick an overlay to a specific app window and it follows that window around as you move and resize it. It only shows up when the app is open, and you can set it to appear only when the app goes fullscreen. Perfect for a webcam frame on your game, a logo on your stream, or a reminder that only pops up when a certain program is running.

Cursor effects

Give your mouse some personality. Pick from a ribbon trail, sparkles, ripples, or floating bubbles, then tune the color, size, and amount. Want sparkles shaped like hearts or diamonds? Done. Want the whole thing cycling through a rainbow? Also done.

Clean backgrounds in one click

Got an image with an ugly background? Built in background removal cuts it out for you, with a model for regular photos and a separate one tuned for anime and illustrations. Drop in a character, remove the background, and it sits cleanly on your desktop.

Reacts to your sound and your music

Overlays can listen to whatever is playing on your PC and move with it. They can also read your "now playing" info, so an overlay can show the current track, artist, and album art straight from Spotify, your browser, or any media app.

Build it yourself, or grab one from the Workshop

DesktopOverlays comes with a bundle format for HTML based overlays. Visualizers, animated wallpapers, clocks, widgets, anything you can build with web tech runs in a safe sandbox with its own settings panel. Browse the Steam Workshop to find creations from other people, subscribe with one click, and publish your own for everyone else. There is also a developer mode that hot reloads your bundle straight from a folder while you build.

Made for Windows

Multi monitor aware, light on resources, and tucked into your system tray. Set it to launch at startup and your desktop is ready the moment you log in.