About

WallpaperDuck is a curated collection of wallpapers for phones, tablets, laptops and desktop monitors. Every picture on the site was made for it, chosen by hand and published in full size. Downloads are free, and the site is paid for by ads. The people behind it are the WallpaperDuck editors, and they are the ones who decide what goes live.

How the pictures are made

The editors write the prompts. A prompt is a short description of a scene, and the good ones are built on new associations: two ideas that do not usually meet, such as a ring of neon hanging in a pine forest, a motorcycle workshop lit like a 1970s photograph, or a polar bear walking through discarded electronics. The images are then generated from those prompts. Nothing is generated and published automatically: a picture reaches the site only if an editor approves it.

How pictures are chosen

Not everything that is generated is published. Each candidate is looked at in full size, and the editors check composition, sharpness, colour, and the small details that tend to go wrong on a large screen, such as hands, edges and text. Pictures that do not hold up are left out. The ones that pass get a title, a theme, descriptive tags and a colour palette, so you can find them by what they show and not only by their name.

What you will find here

More than 1,600 wallpapers in over 80 themes: nebulae and galaxies, crystals and minerals up close, botanical macro studies, brutalist architecture, watercolour ponds with ducks, chrome and glass still lifes, surreal miniature worlds and much more. Most are 16:9 for desktop and laptop screens, there are tall frames for phones and square ones for tablets. Every theme has its own page with a short introduction, and the topic pages, such as Dark, Space or Duck wallpapers, gather pictures across themes. The guides explain how to set a wallpaper on an iPhone, an Android phone, Windows 11 and a Mac.

Downloads

Each wallpaper can be downloaded as the original PNG at full size, 3840 × 2160 for desktop frames, or as a JPEG in three smaller sizes. Without an account you can download one full-size PNG and three JPEGs of any size a day. A free account gives you four downloads a day in any size, plus three small JPEGs on top. The previews on the site carry a PREVIEW watermark; the downloads do not, only a small WallpaperDuck mark in one corner.

Proof of origin

When a wallpaper is published it is registered in a timestamped ledger. Its page shows the date of registration and the SHA-256 fingerprint of the original file, so any copy can be checked against the one published here.

Using the wallpapers

You are welcome to use them as wallpapers on your own screens, at home or at work, and to share screenshots of your desktop. Selling them, offering them for download elsewhere or putting them in apps and wallpaper packs is not allowed; the Terms page has the details. For anything else, such as print or a project of your own, write to support@wallpaperduck.com and ask for a licence.

Get in touch

Questions, a theme you would like to see, or a problem with a download: write to support@wallpaperduck.com. New wallpapers are also pinned on Pinterest, and the Support page lists the ways to help keep the duck going.

Contact: support@wallpaperduck.com