RWPP: Rive Wallpaper Player

RWPP: Rive Wallpaper Player

What it is

A native macOS app that turns Rive animations into animated desktop wallpapers. It lives in the menu bar and was built for Apple Silicon.

What it does

It plays `.riv` scenes full-screen behind your desktop with native Metal rendering. A gallery manages your wallpapers, and runtime controls adjust the scene's ViewModel values (colour, scale, angle, lighting) live.

Features

• Rive-native wallpapers that run offline
• Multi-display support: a separate animation per screen, or one scene spanning all of them (combined mode)
• Dynamic ViewModel controls: colours, toggles, sliders, pickers
• Automatic landscape or portrait artboard choice per screen
• Persistent gallery (animations are copied internally, so you can move or delete the originals)
• Frame-rate limit setting (unlimited, 60 or 30 fps) to cut CPU use
• A free animated hexagon background included, with its Rive project file available to customise

Capabilities

Live interactive wallpapers, and a way for Rive creators to test a scene full-screen across several displays.

Compatibility

• macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon (M1 to M4) only
• Loads Rive `.riv` files that the Rive iOS/macOS runtime (6.13 or later) can play

Availability

Free during the beta and may become paid later. Closed source (private repository). Download from Forge; latest published release v1.3.1 (2026-01-28), the repo is tagged v1.3.2.

Under the hood

Swift and SwiftUI/AppKit with the Rive Swift runtime, Metal rendering, and wallpaper windows managed per display.