Animated Rain Desktop Wallpaper

Rainy days have their own charm, especially if you spend them in the comfort of your home. Some people even have a soft spot for rain (also known as pluviophiles), preferring it over sunny days. Animated Rain Desktop Wallpaper is a tool that can help bring raindrops to the desktop.

The app doesn’t change any of your settings regarding the background image or the theme but simply adds falling raindrops to the screen. These follow a random path, so it makes it seem real.

The software utility should be able to cover the entire desktop but it failed to do this on a 1920x1080 monitor in our tests. While other applications are active, the animation isn’t visible. It only “rains” when you’re watching the desktop and not when you’re playing or browsing the Internet. Also, you might notice some occasional lightning, represented by the entire screen flashing for a brief moment.

The icon of Animated Rain Desktop Wallpaper hides to the systray immediately after you fire it up. By right-clicking on the app’s icon, you can access a brief menu. Thus, you can pause the rain whenever you want, without having to close the program. This causes the rain drops to remain still in the current position. Alternatively, this menu can be used to stop the app altogether.

Animated Rain Desktop Wallpaper is a nice way to refresh the way your desktop looks. The tool is easy to install, so inexperienced users should have no trouble figuring out how to work with it.

On the other hand, there are no customization preferences available. It would've been practical to have the possibility to control the rain properties, such as density, drop size, speed, direction and even color for adventurous users looking for a unique approach to an animated rain wallpaper.