asciipaper38 styles, one click
Every wallpaper takes any style, then you fine-tune it live: 13 shapes, 21 character sets, 20 retro palettes, dithering, and effects you can stack: CRT curve, scanlines, bloom, RGB split, grain, glitch.
Make it yours
Port anything
Drop in a photo, a GIF, a video or a link to a post on X. asciipaper measures it and picks a great starting look.
Share a look in one line
Every look is a short code. Paste a friend's code and you get their exact style. Pictures you save carry their look inside.
Big text
Your name, a word, a quote: drawn in characters, rippling under your pointer, in any style.
Let AI design one
Ask Claude for "a slow teal aurora, CRT style". It writes the wallpaper, looks at each attempt, and sets the one you like.
Light on your PC
A tiny native engine draws on the GPU at under 1% of a CPU core, and pauses behind fullscreen windows.
Write your own
A wallpaper is one GLSL function. Save the file and it updates on your desktop as you type.
Get it
Windows 10 and 11
Download the installer from Releases and run it. No admin rights needed. It lives in the tray and starts with Windows.
Linux
Hyprland, KDE Plasma, Sway, niri, COSMIC and other Wayland desktops.
Android
A live wallpaper for your phone. Download the .apk from Releases, open asciipaper, pick a wallpaper and a style, and set it. It ripples under your finger.
macOS
Export any wallpaper as a ZIP (from Windows or Linux, or one a friend shares), unzip, and open index.html in the free Plash app.
git clone https://github.com/cYoren/asciipaper && cd asciipaper && ./install.sh # Linux claude mcp add --scope user asciipaper -- asciipaper mcp # let Claude design wallpapers