About This Software

Some apps ask for your attention. Stillayer gives it back.

Stillayer is an ambient desktop layer — a slow, living light laid over your wallpaper, and a quieter way to reach everything on your desktop. Nothing to check. Nothing to finish. Just a desktop that breathes with you while you work.

A wallpaper that breathes

Behind your icons, a soft field of light rises and falls like breath. Move the cursor and it answers; hold still and it settles on its own. Four scenes, each a different kind of quiet:

• Breathe · Presence — a glow that swells and fades with the breath.

• Ripple · Stillness — move sharply and the water churns; slow down and it calms itself.

• Bloom · Being — light blooms wherever you come to rest.

• Aware · The Watcher — thoughts drift up and dissolve as you watch.

Pick a breathing rhythm — Natural, 4-7-8, Box, or Sigh — and let the light keep the pace.

Light Pools — your desktop, gathered into calm

Your icons don't have to be a grid of clutter. Light Pools draws them into a few glowing pools by kind — apps, media, documents, folders. Hover a pool and it blooms open; click to launch; right-click to reveal the real file. You can even tuck the desktop icons away entirely and simply live in the pools, with nothing between you and the breathing light.

Stillayer never moves, renames, or deletes a single file. It only draws a calmer view over what's already there.

Sound that settles

An optional ambient bed — an oceanic drift, softly tuned to 432 Hz — with gentle tones that answer your touch. Turn it on and the room changes. Turn it off and the quiet is just as intended.

Made to disappear

Stillayer is feather-light. Windows are created only when you need them and released when you don't, so while you're working it stays nearly invisible — no churn, no fans spinning up over a wallpaper.

Yours, in ten languages

English · 简体中文 · 日本語 · 한국어 · Русский · Українська · Español · Português · Français · Deutsch

No check-ins. No notifications. No progress bars. Just stillness, made into a place you can keep.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Stillayer uses AI-assisted tools during development for some pre-generated content: the ambient sound bed (the background audio pad) was created with AI audio generation and then hand-edited by the developer; the interface text and store descriptions were written and localized into multiple languages with AI assistance and reviewed by the developer. All visuals — the desktop scenes, light pools and animations — are hand-coded procedural graphics with no AI-generated artwork. Stillayer does not generate any content at runtime, contains no live AI features, and works fully offline.