Live 1440p wallpapers that move while you're looking and go perfectly still the instant your screen sleeps. If you can't see it, it isn't drawing power — that's the whole idea.
The engine releases the video decoder the instant the wallpaper leaves your screen — sleep, an app change, or the launcher hiding it. Battery Saver and thermal throttling drop it to a single still frame. No frames drawn off-screen means no power spent there.
Deeply integrated into the Android system. Leverages dynamic accent color generation (Material You), locks frame-rates to match high-refresh display curves, and manages full system Lock Screen wallpapers seamlessly.
Backdrops are downloaded once and cached directly to local memory storage. Eliminates network buffering, plays smoothly without cloud rendering overhead, and works seamlessly offline with downloaded backdrops.
Dozens of Backdrops are drawn on your phone rather than downloaded — a GPU shader on Android 13+, a few hundred bytes of recipe instead of a video. Nothing to stream, nothing to store, and no compression artifacts. New ones arrive without an app update.
Tide works out how far away each pixel in a photo is and drifts the scene as though the camera were moving through it — every depth at its own rate, not a cut-out sliding over a blur. It all happens on your phone; the photo never leaves it.
Point at any video, pick the part of the frame that matters, and Tide crops and encodes it into a 1440p Backdrop right on your phone — then publishes it for everyone else, if you want it shared.
Most live wallpapers keep decoding video the whole time your phone is on. Tide only draws when the wallpaper is actually on your screen — and gets out of the way the moment it isn't. These are design guarantees of the engine, not best-case numbers.
Backdrop by Cindori is the largest Mac live wallpaper engine, featuring 4K video wallpapers, Lock Screen support, custom playlists, and a thriving community of over 50,000 users.
Purchasing Backdrop through our link directly supports Tide development — it never costs you anything extra!
Screenshots and press kit assets used with permission from Cindori.
