SakuDesk
Wallpapers, music and sound for your Windows desktop, in one window.
Free download
Everything on this page is in the free download, unless it says Premium.
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The first page you see. What's playing, your volume and sound output, the clock and calendar, and how hard your PC is working.
- How hard it works
Its share of your processor and graphics card, with a word on whether to turn it down.
- Now playing
Whatever Windows is playing, with play, pause and skip.
- Volume
Your PC's volume, one drag away.
- Sound output
Which speakers or headphones are playing, with arrows to switch.
- Wallpaper cycle
Whether it's running, and how often it changes.
Wallpapers
Your own folder on a timer, or new pictures found from inside the app.
- Your folder
Any folder of pictures. New ones you find land in
Pictures\SakuDesk wallpapers. - How often
Pick the interval, and whether to shuffle.
- Running
The cycle is on, and changes every five minutes here. F9 starts and stops it.
- Library
Every picture in the folder, with the one on your desktop marked Current.
- The finder
Search wallhaven by word or category: Anime, Cyberpunk, City nights, Space and more.
- An exact fit
Pictures can be cropped to your screen's size as they download.
Sound
Choose which outputs to cycle through, then hop between them with a key. In a game, too.
- What's playing it
The output your sound comes from now, and how many are in your cycle.
- Switch
Step through your outputs here, or with F7 and F8 from anywhere.
- Combine speakers
Two speakers playing as one. Locked in Free, it's part of SakuDesk Premium.
- Your cycle
Switch on the outputs F7 and F8 should move between.
Hotkeys
They work in games and from the tray. Changing them is part of SakuDesk Premium.
Press one of the keys above, or the real ones on your keyboard.
And the rest
Music controls
Play, pause and skip whatever Windows is playing, music in your browser included, from Home.
Two themes
Sakura and Midnight. Fifteen more come with Premium.
Your pace
Low, Medium or High. You decide how much of your PC its animations can use.
A three-second opening
The name flies in over your desktop and a blade cuts through it. Clicks pass straight through, and one switch turns it off.
The tray
Close the window and it can wait in the tray, hotkeys still working. Start with Windows if you like.
Unlockables.
You'll see a small lock on these inside SakuDesk Free. SakuDesk Premium, a monthly subscription, opens them in the same app.
- Live wallpapers behind your icons: 19 scenes, moving to your music
- Desktop widgets, as many as you like on every screen
- A Discord voice hub, on top of your game
- Two speakers playing as one, synced with your microphone
- Setup profiles that switch everything at once
- A wallpaper of its own for every screen
- Overpower speed, for machines with power to spare
- Cyberpunk lyrics, more themes, backdrops and clock styles
- Notification styles, motion and glitch effects
- Your own hotkeys, and a Home you arrange
Before you download.
- Works on
- Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit. Built and tested on Windows 10
- Needs
- Nothing else. One file with everything inside, so no Python and no installer
- Costs
- Nothing. No adverts, no trial, no time limit and no account
- Leaves behind
- One settings folder, which you delete along with the file to remove it
Windows will warn you about it the first time. Here's what to do, and the help page has the rest.