Your icons, surrounded by bubbles
Keep using your desktop shortcuts and taskbar while fish swim behind them.
Interactive live wallpaper for Windows
Your desktop.
Now alive.
Your aquarium can now become your desktop. Watch water fill the screen, feed your fish and change the underwater scenery while your desktop icons stay within reach.
Windows 10 & 11No accountLocal progress
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Interactive live wallpaper for Windows
A wallpaper you can play with.
Turn your desktop into a living aquarium. Water flows out of the aquarium window and fills the screen, bringing your fish into a bigger underwater world.
Feed fish from your desktop
Hold Ctrl and click in the aquarium to drop food. Watch your fish swim over for a bite.
Choose your underwater scenery
Switch between the aquarium backgrounds in your collection to change the mood of your desktop.
Bring your desktop to life
Get Desktop Aquarium on Microsoft Store
More than decoration
A small living world
between you and the noise.
Desktop Aquarium is designed to be noticed, not managed. Fish explore, feed and move through real depth while you work, study or take a quiet break.
LunaExploring
FeedCareCollection
Keep the aquarium in a compact window or activate live wallpaper and let the water fill your desktop.
Built for quiet focus
Responsive behavior
Not a loop.
A living presence.
Drop food and watch fish notice it, approach from different depths and compete for a bite. Leave them alone and they explore the habitat at their own pace.
- 01Feed and careFish react to food and remember when the aquarium needs attention.
- 02Natural movementIndependent routes, depth changes and pauses make every visit feel different.
- 03A world that changesWater clarity and the habitat respond to how you care for the aquarium.
Build your collection
Meet the rare ones.
Begin free, then make the aquarium yours with distinctive premium inhabitants. Every creature adds a different rhythm, silhouette and personality.
Living collection · Optional premium residents
Aurelia
Opal color and calm, measured movement.
Vesper
A bright jewel with a restless flowing tail.
Marlin
Playful, curious and impossible to miss.
Kaia
The apex resident that owns the depth.
Start your aquariumFree download · Optional in-app purchases
Made for your desktop
Present when you want it.
Quiet when you don’t.
Compact companion
Keep a small always-on-top aquarium beside notes, browsers and work.
Live wallpaper
Keep the aquarium in a compact window or activate live wallpaper and let the water fill your desktop.
Your progress stays yours
No account required. Your aquarium is saved locally on the PC.
Questions
Before you dive in.
Is Desktop Aquarium really free?+
Yes. Download it free from Microsoft Store and begin with a living fish. Optional rare residents and other premium content are available inside the aquarium.
Is this a live wallpaper or a game?+
Both. Desktop Aquarium is an aquarium game with an interactive live wallpaper mode. Your icons and taskbar remain accessible. Hold Ctrl and click to feed your fish, or return to windowed mode whenever you want.
Which computers are supported?+
Desktop Aquarium is built for 64-bit Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs.
Does it collect personal information?+
No account is required and game progress is stored locally. Microsoft Store handles purchases and licensing.
Your quiet corner is waiting
Bring the ocean
to your desktop.
Choose your underwater world, feed your fish and make your Windows desktop feel alive.
Download free fromMicrosoft Store