Earth Pulse
A living seismic atlas. Earthquakes reported in the past hour, day or week appear as rings: size shows magnitude, colour shows depth.
Live wallpapers for Windows
The world, quietly in motion.
Daywisp turns your desktop into a calm window on the planet. Earthquakes ripple across a map, ocean swell rolls past a real buoy, aircraft drift overhead and the night sky turns above your home, all drawn from live observations.
For Windows 10 and 11. No account, no ads, no tracking.
- 12living wallpapers, from the sea floor to the stars
- Real datapublic observations, never invented or looped
- Calmpauses on battery and behind fullscreen apps
- Privateno account, analytics or advertising
The collection
Twelve windows on a living planet.
Every wallpaper is drawn from something real that is happening right now. Pick one, choose a place or a feed, and it settles in behind your desktop icons.
Ocean Motion
An open-water horizon off San Francisco, Long Island or Cape Canaveral. Wave height, period, direction and wind shape the swell.
Tide Room
A quiet shoreline that rises and falls with the measured water level, alongside the astronomical tide prediction for the day.
Solar Wind
Flowing ribbons and particles that respond to the speed, density and magnetic field of the solar wind measured upstream of Earth.
Night Sky
The bright stars, constellations and Moon above your chosen place, calculated for this moment, with an optional ISS track.
Live aircraft
A quiet radar of the flights passing through your part of the sky, with callsigns, altitude, speed and smooth trails between position reports.
City Pulse
Oslo or New York as a constellation of bike-share stations, each ring filling and emptying as bicycles come and go.
Living Wikipedia
Watch people add to a shared world of knowledge. Real article edits and new pages bloom as a fading constellation of lights and titles.
Code in Motion
Follow the commits shaping a public GitHub project. Messages, hashes and branches arrive at your chosen pace, linked by their real history.
Grid Flow
Great Britain's electricity mix as proportional ribbons: wind, solar, gas, nuclear and more, with the renewable share at a glance.
Block Flow
A mosaic of recent Bitcoin transactions sized by virtual size and coloured by fee rate, beside the newest blocks joining the chain.
Market Watch
A calm price board for Bitcoin, gold and silver, with charts built only from prices your PC actually observed. No ticker frenzy.
Plus your own videos: add local MP4, MKV, WebM and more, and loop them behind your icons.
A closer look
Beautiful at a glance. Readable when you look closer.
Daywisp is built to be glanced at between tasks. Each scene is a piece of calm design first, and an honest instrument second.
Live aircraft
See what is flying over your home.
Paste a coordinate from Google Maps or look up an address, choose a viewing radius, and a north-up radar fills with the aircraft around you.
- Callsign, reported altitude, speed and heading for each flight.
- Smooth motion at up to 60 fps between position reports, with trails of real fixes.
- 5, 10, 25 or 50 km radius, plus a highlighted near-home zone.
- Use the public adsb.lol feed or your own local ADS-B receiver.
Night Sky
The stars above you, right now.
An all-sky chart calculated for your place and the current minute, laid out as if you were lying on your back looking up.
- Bright stars, constellation guides and the Moon with its current phase.
- Works offline: calculations happen on your PC and your coordinates never leave it.
- Optional ISS track predicted from public orbital elements.
Living Wikipedia
Knowledge, growing in real time.
Every few seconds someone, somewhere, improves Wikipedia. Daywisp turns that stream into a slow, glowing constellation.
- English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese or every language at once.
- Shows whether an article is new or edited, and how much it changed.
- Bots and non-article changes are filtered out; editor names and IPs are discarded.
- Adjustable pace, so busy hours stay readable.
Earth, sea and sky
Nature's rhythms, measured.
Earth Pulse, Ocean Motion, Tide Room and Solar Wind turn scientific observations into scenes you can live with all day.
- Choose the station or region: San Francisco, New York, Key West, Cape Canaveral and more.
- Every scene shows how old its data is, and holds still when data is unavailable.
- Built-in reading guides explain every colour, line and movement.
The app
Simple to set up. Easy to forget it's running.
Browse the collection, open a wallpaper to tune it, and press Apply. Close the window and Daywisp keeps your wallpaper going from the system tray.
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Designed to stay out of the way
A wallpaper, not a distraction.
Battery aware
Pause automatically when your laptop is running on battery, and resume when you plug back in.
Fullscreen aware
When a game or video covers your display, Daywisp can pause so every bit of performance goes to what you're doing.
Lives in the tray
Close the window and the wallpaper keeps running. Reopen, pause, stop or quit from the system tray at any time.
Gentle motion
Slow, eased animation tuned for peripheral vision, with reduced-motion support built into every scene.
Behind your icons
Wallpapers sit behind your desktop icons on the display you choose. Stop and your usual wallpaper returns.
Self-healing
If Windows rebuilds the desktop, live wallpapers reconnect on their own, and feeds back off politely when a source is busy.
Honest by design
Real data, drawn with care.
Daywisp is art that respects its sources. It never fabricates readings to keep a scene busy.
Freshness on screen
Scenes show the age of their observations. When a feed is late or unavailable, the motion holds still and says so.
Artistic, not misleading
Rings are markers, not seismic waves. Swell is an illustration, not a wave reconstruction. Each reading guide is clear about the difference.
Polite to providers
Bounded request rates, conditional requests and backoff keep Daywisp a good citizen of the public services it relies on.
- USGSEarthquake reports
- NOAA NDBCOcean buoy observations
- NOAA Tides & CurrentsWater levels and predictions
- NOAA SWPCSolar-wind measurements
- adsb.lolAircraft positions
- WikimediaPublic edit stream
- GitHubPublic commit history
- NESOGreat Britain generation mix
- Citi Bike · Oslo BysykkelStation availability
- mempool.spaceBitcoin network data
- Gold APIBitcoin, gold and silver prices
- CelesTrakISS orbital elements
- Natural EarthLand map
- Photon · OpenStreetMapOptional address lookup
Privacy
Your desktop stays yours.
Daywisp has no account and no analytics. Your settings and saved places live on your PC, and each wallpaper only contacts its data source while it is showing.
Read the privacy policy- No account, ads or tracking. Nothing to sign up for, nothing watching you.
- You choose your location. Daywisp never asks Windows where you are. Use a nearby public place if you prefer.
- Your videos never leave your PC. Files stay where they are; Daywisp only remembers where to find them.
- Browsing is offline. Feeds connect only when you preview or apply a wallpaper.
Requirements
What you need.
Windows 10 or 11
64-bit (x64), Windows 10 version 2004 (build 19041) or newer. Windows in S mode is not supported.
Microsoft Edge WebView2
Included with Windows 11 and most Windows 10 PCs. If it's missing, Daywisp points you to Microsoft's official download.
An internet connection
Needed for live wallpapers. Night Sky works offline, and your own videos play without one.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Is the data really live?
Yes. Each wallpaper reads a real public source, such as USGS for earthquakes or NOAA for buoys and tides, and refreshes on a schedule suited to that source, from every 15 seconds for aircraft to every half hour for the electricity mix. Every scene shows how old its data is.
Will it slow down my PC or drain my battery?
Daywisp is designed to be gentle. It can pause automatically on battery power and whenever a fullscreen app covers your display, and you can pause or stop it from the tray at any time. Only one wallpaper runs at once.
Does Daywisp know where I live?
Only if you tell it. You enter a location yourself for the aircraft radar and Night Sky; Daywisp never requests your Windows location. The aircraft feed receives the coordinates and radius you choose, so you can use a nearby public spot instead of your exact address. Night Sky's calculations happen on your PC.
Can I use my own videos?
Yes. Add local video files to the Videos library and loop them behind your desktop icons, muted by default. Files stay in their original location. Video wallpapers use the free mpv player, which you select in Settings.
Does it work with multiple monitors?
You can choose which display shows your wallpaper. Daywisp currently runs one wallpaper on one display at a time.
What happens if a data source goes down?
The scene holds still and tells you the data is unavailable or stale, then picks up again automatically once the source returns. Daywisp never fills the gap with made-up values.
How do I get help?
Email support@daywisp.io or visit the support page.
Daywisp for Windows
Let the world drift by your desktop.
Daywisp is coming soon to the Microsoft Store. Questions in the meantime? We'd love to hear from you.