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222 live scenes in 11 collections, all with music.
Murmuration
Starlings at dusk, folding and splitting around a falcon.
Lorenz Butterfly
The 1963 weather model that gave chaos its butterfly, drawn by its own flow.
Snow Globe
Shaken now and then, the snow swirls and settles around a small pine.
Spiral Arms
Stars brighten as they cross a density wave that turns slower than they do.
Particle Clock
The time, in your own format, written in particles that regroup every minute.
Torus Knot
A tube wound through a ring in a knot; two knobs choose how it winds.
Harmonograph
Damped pendulums draw nested loops that slowly redraw themselves.
Cloud Chamber
Particle tracks condense in vapor and curl in a magnetic field.
Wind Tree
A lone tree sways on a hill through four seasons.
Soap Film
Rainbow colors swirl across a thin, draining soap film.
Tesseract
A four-dimensional cube turns through planes we cannot see.
Orrery
Planets circle a steady sun, trailing the paths they draw.
Ringed Planet
A dark ringed world slowly eclipses its sun.
Overcast
A low gray ceiling of cloud rolling slowly overhead.
Sandstone City
An endless fractal city of sunlit sandstone blocks.
Neon Heart
A glass heart inside a ring of flowing neon current.
Star Trails
Long arcs of colored light, like a night-sky exposure.
Koi Pond
Koi glide under lily pads in a clear green pond.
Gas Giant
A banded giant planet turning slowly, with a small moon in orbit.
Lighthouse
A lighthouse sweeps its beam over a dark sea under the Milky Way.
Slow Fireworks
Fireworks open in slow motion over dark water.
Digital Rain
Columns of glowing green symbols fall down a black screen.
Dream Gradient
Soft pastel colors melt into one another.
Woven Rosette
Fine glowing lines weave a slowly turning rosette.
Total Eclipse
The Sun's corona streams around a black Moon.
Tide Line
Turquoise waves wash up a sandy beach, seen from above.
Dandelion Seeds
Dandelion seeds float past in low evening light.
Midnight Skyline
A city skyline at night, its lit windows mirrored in the water.
StripesSeigaiha Waves
The Japanese wave pattern in indigo, cream, and gold.
Paper Cut Hills
Layers of cut paper form rolling hills under a paper sun.
Zen Garden
Raked sand circles three stones as the light slowly moves.
Fireplace
A log fire burning in a brick fireplace.
Planet Rise
Sunrise over the curved edge of a planet, seen from orbit.
Firefly Meadow
Fireflies glowing and dimming over a night meadow.
Golden Hour
A low sun and orange light under drifting purple clouds.
Rain on the Pond
Raindrops spreading rings across a dark pond.
StripesSynthwave Sunset
A striped sun, neon mountains, and a glowing grid.
Dense dotsCity Bokeh
Out-of-focus city lights in gold, pink, and blue.
Ink in Water
Teal, indigo, and crimson ink unfurling in clear water.
Kaleidoscope
A mirrored pattern of jewel colors, always rearranging.
Candlelight
One candle flame, leaning and steadying in the dark.
Meteor Shower
Shooting stars crossing a clear night sky.
Campfire Embers
Orange sparks rising from a fire into the dark.
Sea of Clouds
Sunrise over a blanket of cloud, seen from above.
Desert Dunes
Layers of sand dunes under a hazy sun.
Fast motionStarfield Warp
Stars streaming out from the center at an easy pace.
Light Leaks
Warm washes of orange and rose light with a little grain.
Watercolor Bloom
Blots of watercolor spreading on textured white paper.
Dense dotsMandala Breath
Gold and teal rings of petals, swelling and settling.
Fairy Lights
Strings of warm bulbs, gently brightening and dimming.
Wormhole
A slow flight down a swirling tunnel of colored gas.
Quiet Snowfall
Soft snow falling at dusk over snow-covered pines.
Cotton Candy Sky
Soft pink, peach, and lavender haze, slowly folding.
Kelp Forest
Tall kelp swaying in green-blue, sunlit water.
Fast color changeRetro Plasma
Blocky blobs of saturated color from old computer demos.
Window Light
Afternoon sun through blinds, striped across a wall.
Liquid Chrome
Liquid metal rippling with bright white highlights.
Julia Bloom
A Julia set fractal that keeps changing shape.
Lantern Festival
Paper lanterns rising into the night above still water.
Comet
A bright comet with a blue ion tail and a golden dust tail.
Cherry Blossom Drift
Pink petals tumbling across a pale spring sky.
Moonlit Clouds
A full moon behind drifting, silver-edged clouds.
Jellyfish Drift
Glowing jellyfish pulsing upward through deep blue water.
Mystify
Two glowing polygons bouncing and leaving fading trails.
Soft Orbs
Balls of colored light drifting and merging in the dark.
Smoke Wisps
Thin incense smoke curling into ribbons in the dark.
StripesContour Lines
A slowly changing map of fine teal contour lines.
Snowy Window
Snow and warm street lights beyond a frosted window.
Harvest Moon
A large golden moon whose phase slowly changes.
Autumn Leaves
Red and gold leaves spinning down through amber light.
Pine Fog
Rows of pines fading into pale morning fog.
Lake at Dusk
Mountains and a crescent moon mirrored in a still lake.
Oscilloscope
A green trace looping through Lissajous figures.
Neon Halo
Neon rings turning above a dark, glossy floor.
Paper Marbling
Bands of indigo, ochre, and crimson pulled into waves.
StripesMoiré Rings
Three sets of rings sliding into moiré patterns.
Night Train
Dark hills and distant lights passing a train window.
Supernova Remnant
Rings of blue, red, and gold gas around a small white star.
Sunbeam Dust
Dust motes glinting in a shaft of sunlight.
Balloon Dawn
Striped hot air balloons drifting across a dawn sky.
Summer Meadow
Golden grass swaying in a warm evening breeze.
Circuit Glow
Pulses of light running along circuit board tracks.
StripesTruchet Weave
Rounded ribbons of color winding through loops and curves.
Rainy City Night
A lit skyline reflected in wet ground on a rainy night.
Star Cluster
Thousands of stars gathered around a bright center.
Soap Bubbles
Rainbow-rimmed bubbles rising against a blue sky.
Frozen Lake
Thick blue ice, pale cracks, and glinting frost.
StripesRadio Waves
Stacked white lines rising into peaks like a mountain range.
StripesQuasicrystal
A glowing pattern with symmetry that never quite repeats.
Stardust Spiral
A tilted spiral galaxy made of points of light.
Pool Caustics
Nets of sunlight wobbling over turquoise pool tiles.
StripesLight Tunnel
A glide down a tunnel of color-changing neon rings.
Glowing Tide
Small waves lighting up electric blue on a night beach.
Event Horizon
A black hole bending the light of its own disk.
Misty Peaks
Mountain ridges fading into dawn mist.
Lava Lamp
Warm wax rising, merging, and drifting apart.
Stained Glass
Jewel-colored panes with light moving behind them.
Solar Corona
The Sun up close, wrapped in slow streamers.
Sunlit Deep
Shafts of sunlight reaching into blue water.
Oil & Water
An iridescent film curling across dark water.
Dense dotsHoneycomb Pulse
Waves of light crossing a glowing comb.
Northern Lights
Luminous curtains above a still horizon.
Silk Flow
Iridescent fabric, caught in a gentle current.
Velvet Nebula
Rose and indigo clouds drifting among stars.
Prism Bloom
Petals of light unfolding in perfect symmetry.
Star Nest
A slow journey through a field of stars.
Moonlit Sea
Moonlight reflected on a quiet sea.
Open Ocean
Rolling blue waves beneath a low sun.
Distant Galaxy
A spiral of starlight in the deep dark.
Fast color changeColor Melt
Pools of vivid color, endlessly folding.
Marble Drift
Blue marbling with an unhurried rhythm.
Saturn Orbit
A ringed world, suspended in soft light.
Rain on Glass
Cool raindrops and warm, distant city lights.
Liquid Gold
Warm metallic ripples with an amber glow.
Opal Rings
Pearlescent circles, gently breathing.
Ribbon Waves
Fine threads of light moving as one.
StripesLuminous Lattice
A delicate grid with softly wandering light.
Aizawa Bloom
A sphere with a tube through its middle, wound by one steady equation.
Thomas Labyrinth
Three identical equations, one per axis, wandering a maze of loops.
Halvorsen Triad
Three lobes that turn the same way whichever axis you look down.
Rössler Band
A flat spiral that lifts into a fold and drops back in, again and again.
Dadras Scroll
Two scrolls trading a thread of light between them.
Four Wings
Four wings around one center, beating in no regular order.
Rabinovich Shell
A curled shell from a model of waves in a plasma.
Chua Double Scroll
The double scroll of Chua’s circuit: a few cheap parts that behave chaotically.
Nosé–Hoover Tori
Nested shells from a model of heat, each point held to its own.
Burke–Shaw Ribbon
A twisted ribbon that loops around itself and never closes.
Arneodo Shell
A spiral that grows, folds over, and starts again from the inside.
Shimizu–Morioka Wings
Two small wings joined by one long outer loop.
Dequan Li Spring
A coiled spring with a pair of wide wings on top.
Clifford Silk
A two-line formula, repeated millions of times a second, folding into silk.
Hopalong Quilt
Barry Martin’s hopping map, stitching a quilt as it goes.
Gumowski–Mira Bloom
A map from particle-accelerator research that grows birds and flowers.
Ikeda Spiral
Light circling inside a laser cavity, as a map. It curls like a wave.
Tinkerbell Orbit
A quadratic map whose points never settle and never leave.
Chaos Fern
Four simple rules picked at random, and a fern appears. It sways if you let it.
Fractal Flame
Three bent copies of the plane, chosen at random, glowing where they agree.
Dragon Curve
The paper-folding dragon, built from two rules picked at random.
Dense dotsChaos Game
Jump part of the way to a random corner, never the same one twice, and a pattern appears.
Duffing Section
A forced, damped spring, photographed once per swing.
Mandelbrot Nebula
Every orbit that escapes the Mandelbrot set, drawn as it flies.
Bifurcation Tree
One simple equation: order splits in two, again and again, then turns to chaos.
Curl Currents
Threads of silk on a slowly turning current, a few bright among many dim.
Ocean Gyres
Two ocean gyres breathing back and forth, stirring their waters together.
Vortex Street
A stream flows past a post and sheds whirlpools: left, right, left.
Magnet Lines
Field lines running from north poles to south as the magnets drift.
Jet Streams
Two jet streams snaking around the globe, dragging eddies along.
Leapfrog Vortices
Two smoke rings, seen edge-on, taking turns to pass through each other.
Combed Fur
Short strokes laid along a swirling field, like fur brushed one way.
Solar Loops
Glowing plasma climbs magnetic loops above the sun’s surface and falls back.
Wind Map
Weather systems turn and drift; the wind leaves its paths as streaks.
Hurricane Eye
Rain bands spiraling in toward a calm eye.
Cream in Coffee
Cream poured in, stirred once, and left to curl.
Pendulum Phase
Every way a driven pendulum can swing, all flowing at once.
Convection Cells
Heated from below: warm fluid rises and cool sinks, in rolls that wander.
Shear Billows
Two layers of air slide past each other and roll up like waves.
Chladni Plate
Sand on a vibrating plate, gathering on the lines that stay still.
Galaxy Collision
Two spiral galaxies pass close and pull long tails out of each other.
Accretion Disk
Matter spirals into a black hole, brighter on the side coming toward you.
Planet Nursery
Young planets clearing lanes in the dusty disk they formed in.
Binary Stream
Gas spills from a swollen star into a disk around its small companion.
Ring Shepherds
Two small moons herding a narrow ring and leaving kinks in it.
Three-Body Dance
Three equal stars chasing each other around one figure eight.
Trojan Swarm
Asteroids leading and trailing a giant planet, seen turning with it.
Radiation Belts
Charged particles spiral along a planet’s magnetic field, bouncing between the poles.
Dyson Swarm
Thousands of collectors circling a star in rings tilted every way.
Precession Rose
An orbit that turns a little every time around, drawing a rosette.
Retrograde Loops
The planets as seen from Earth, looping back on themselves.
Light Fountain
Three jets of light, arcing up and splashing down.
Waterfall
Water pours off a ledge while mist drifts up from the pool.
Sparkler
A sparkler waved through the dark, its sparks cooling as they fall.
Lava Fountain
Molten rock thrown high, cooling from gold to dull red before it lands.
Geyser
A pool that builds, erupts and settles, with steam drifting downwind.
Hourglass
Sand runs through the neck and piles up below, then the glass turns over.
Maple Seeds
Winged seeds spinning down on the breeze.
Drifting Feathers
Feathers rocking side to side as they sink.
Fast motionSandstorm
Gusts driving sand across the frame in waves.
Tornado
Debris spiraling up a funnel that leans with the wind.
Light Painting
Three lights drawing in the dark, like a long-exposure photo.
Paper Planes
Paper planes gliding past, rising and dipping as they go.
Impact Ejecta
Small impacts on an airless moon throw up dust that falls back slowly.
Bait Ball
A school of fish wheeling as one, opening for the shark.
Bee Swarm
Bees looping around their queen as she moves.
Moths and Lamp
Moths keep the light at a fixed angle, and so they spiral around it.
Slime Mold
Simple cells that lay down scent and follow it, building a network.
Rival Colonies
Three colonies following their own trails and avoiding each other’s.
Rail Network
Slime mold growing between food sources, the way it once redrew a rail map.
Ink Veins
The same network, drawn as ink soaking into paper.
Shape Shifter
One cloud of points flowing from sphere to ring to cube and on.
Double Helix
Two strands and their rungs, turning as they slide along.
Möbius Flow
Points flowing along a strip that has only one side.
Spherical Harmonics
A sphere breathing in the shapes that describe vibrating drums and atoms.
Beating Heart
A heart of particles, beating at whatever pace you set.
Gyroid
Points crawling over a surface that splits space into two tangled halves.
Klein Bottle
A closed surface with no inside, shown in its figure-eight form.
Hopf Fibration
Circles on a four-dimensional sphere, projected into nested, linked rings.
Seashell
A spiral tube that widens with every turn, the way a snail’s shell grows.
Calabi–Yau
A cross-section of the shapes string theory uses for its hidden dimensions.
Rose Curves
Polar roses that open and close as their petal ratio drifts.
Electron Orbitals
Where a hydrogen atom’s electron is likely to be, sampled point by point.
Boy’s Surface
A one-sided surface that closes on itself, found by Werner Boy in 1901.
NewNebula Drift
A million-point nebula advected through curl-noise flow.
NewFast motionNeon Metropolis
An instanced emissive city flythrough.
NewLiquid Chrome (Screen Test)
Raymarched metaball fluid with mirror shading.
NewDense dotsCanvas 2D Basic Circles
Simple bouncing circles with smooth animations
NewCrystal Blizzard
Sparkling ice crystals with prismatic light effects
NewCosmic Vortex
Swirling cosmic energy vortex
NewParticle Explosion
Dynamic particle explosion with shockwaves
NewGalaxy Spiral
Spiral galaxy with rotating arms
NewAurora Borealis
Northern lights with flowing colors
NewParticle Connections
Network particles with connection dynamics
NewMoving staticStatic Field
Per-pixel noise, fresh every frame — a worst case for any panel.
NewAlien Planet
Cratered ground under a hazy sun and a ringed giant.
NewAlien Beacon
A pink canyon under a hazy alien sky.
NewTopologica
Electric-blue filaments threading through a noise field.
NewFast motionWarp Speed
Streaks of light pouring toward a bright core.
NewDigital Maelstrom
Green code rain spiraling around a knot.
NewProtophore
A chrome fractal sphere under a studio softbox.
NewStripesStar Planes
Nested stars stacked into the distance.
NewStripesDisco Tunnel
Neon rings pulled toward a vanishing point.
NewStripesKaleidoscope (Screen Test)
A black-and-white Truchet pattern folded through mirrors.
NewApollonian Twist
Circles within circles on a slowly turning fractal.
Every scene is drawn live in your browser.
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Screen Test & Utility Tools
A Little Atmosphere for Your Screen
Choose from 222 live scenes in eleven collections. From northern lights and a black hole to a fireplace, falling snow, and a synthwave sunset, every effect is drawn in real time, and each one comes with background music. Pick a scene, make it your own, and press Start fullscreen.
Find Your Mood
- Space — wander through stars, a velvet nebula, the rings of Saturn, a black hole, a sunrise seen from orbit, a meteor shower, or a comet.
- Sky & weather — look up at a sunset, a sea of clouds at sunrise, a cotton candy sky, moonlit clouds, pines in morning fog, or hot air balloons at dawn.
- Nature — settle into northern lights, a moonlit sea, misty mountains at dawn, a kelp forest, glowing jellyfish, rain on a pond, or a frozen lake.
- Drifting things — follow fireflies, campfire embers, falling snow, cherry blossom petals, autumn leaves, dust in a sunbeam, or soap bubbles.
- Light & glow — soften the room with city bokeh, film light leaks, sun through window blinds, drifting orbs, or neon rings.
- Cozy — stay in with a fireplace, a candle, fairy lights, sky lanterns, a snowy window, a night train, or a city in the rain.
- Retro & digital — revisit a synthwave sunset, a classic starfield, plasma, Mystify, an oscilloscope, a glowing circuit board, or a neon tunnel.
- Flow & color — watch silk, molten gold, a lava lamp, ink in water, watercolor, liquid chrome, and incense smoke drift across the screen.
- Geometry — explore stained glass, a glowing honeycomb, opal rings, a kaleidoscope, a breathing mandala, a Julia fractal, and moiré rings.
- Chaos & fractals — follow the Lorenz butterfly, a Clifford attractor folding into silk, a fractal flame, a fern drawn by four rules, or the Mandelbrot nebula.
- Flocks & swarms — watch starlings fold around a falcon, a school of fish turn as one, bees circle their queen, or a slime mold grow a rail network.
Ninety of the scenes are made of particles: strange attractors, orbits, flocks, fountains, knots, a snow globe, and a clock that tells the time in your own format. They come from the same library as the Screen Test effects gallery, and each one has its own sliders.
The classic DVD Screensaver is still here, with its corner counter and familiar bounce.
Make It Yours
Adjust the speed, shift the color, and fine-tune the scene's own controls. Your choices are saved in this browser. Use Pause preview for a still frame, or start fullscreen whenever you are ready. In fullscreen, the left and right arrow keys change scenes, the mouse wheel adjusts brightness, and a click or Escape exits.
The first time a scene moves, a short note says what to expect and asks before it plays. Most scenes are slow; a few are marked for fast motion, dense dots, fast color change or high-contrast stripes. Tick the box and that kind of note won't ask again on this device.
Under More settings, choose a quality level, set a stop timer, or keep the screen awake. Auto quality adapts to slower devices; Battery saver uses a lower resolution. When the timer ends, the scene fades to black and releases the screen's wake lock.
Background Music
Press Music to play a soundtrack that suits the scene. It is off until you turn it on, loops quietly, and changes when you change scenes. Use the volume slider to set the level; your choice is remembered in this browser. The music pauses with the tab and fades out when the stop timer ends.
Made for a Browser Tab
These effects play while this page is open. They cannot launch automatically when your computer becomes idle. Try them on a spare monitor, a TV connected to your computer, or as a quiet backdrop while you take a break. Playback pauses when the tab is hidden, and previews respect your reduced-motion preference.
Looking After Your Display
Some scenes keep bright details in roughly the same place. For long sessions, lower the brightness, vary the scene, and use the stop timer. A moving image does not guarantee protection from OLED burn-in. If playback stutters, try Battery saver or a simpler scene such as Ribbon Waves.
Credits
Thirty-eight scenes come from the Screen Test effects gallery: twenty-two by the authors listed below, and sixteen written there, ten of them from its benchmark. The ninety-four WhiteScreen Studio scenes were designed for this collection. The music was composed for the Screen Test effects gallery and is streamed from our own servers. The ninety particle scenes were written for both sites and come from the same library.
| Scene | Author | License |
|---|---|---|
| Star Nest | Kali (Pablo Roman Andrioli) | MIT |
| Moonlit Sea | mrange | CC0 |
| Open Ocean | afl_ext | MIT |
| Distant Galaxy | mrange | CC0 |
| Color Melt | TEttinger | CC0 |
| Marble Drift | Alalalat, after Inigo Quilez | MIT |
| Ringed Planet | mrange | CC0 |
| Overcast | afl_ext | MIT |
| Sandstone City | mrange | CC0 |
| Neon Heart | mrange | CC0 |
| Star Trails | Danil (morimea) | CC0 |
| Static Field | David Hoskins | MIT |
| Alien Planet | mrange | CC0 |
| Alien Beacon | Otavio Good | CC0 |
| Topologica | Otavio Good | CC0 |
| Warp Speed | mrange | CC0 |
| Digital Maelstrom | mrange | CC0 |
| Protophore | Otavio Good | CC0 |
| Star Planes | mrange | CC0 |
| Disco Tunnel | mrange | CC0 |
| Kaleidoscope | mrange | CC0 |
| Apollonian Twist | mrange | CC0 |
| Harmonograph, Cloud Chamber, Wind Tree, Soap Film, Tesseract, Orrery | ScreenTest.Pro | Original |
| Nebula Drift, Neon Metropolis, Liquid Chrome, Canvas 2D Basic Circles, Crystal Blizzard, Cosmic Vortex, Particle Explosion, Galaxy Spiral, Aurora Borealis, Particle Connections | ScreenTest.Pro | Original |
| All particle scenes (90) | ScreenTest.Pro | Original |
| All other scenes (94) | WhiteScreen.tv | ISC |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this a real screensaver?
It is a fullscreen animation in a browser tab. It looks and behaves like a screensaver while it is open, but it cannot start by itself when the computer goes idle - only the operating system can do that. Open the page, press Start fullscreen, and it runs until you leave.
Do I need to download or install anything?
No installation is needed. The live effects require a browser and device with WebGL2 enabled. If it is unavailable, we show a still preview and link to the classic DVD Screensaver.
Can I use it on a TV?
Yes, if the TV has a browser, or if a laptop, stick or console is plugged into it. Open the page, start fullscreen, and set Stop after if you do not want it on all night. Smart-TV browsers are slow: choose Battery saver quality if the picture stutters.
Will it stop my screen from going to sleep?
Only if you leave Keep screen awake ticked, and only while the scene is fullscreen and visible. When the stop timer ends, the page goes black and lets the display sleep normally.
Is it safe for an OLED screen?
Moving images do not guarantee protection against OLED burn-in. Some scenes retain bright details in one area. For long sessions, lower brightness, change scenes periodically, and set the stop timer.
Why did it pause when I changed tabs?
Browsers stop animation in tabs you cannot see, and this page stops drawing on purpose as well, so a hidden tab costs no battery. It picks up where it left off when you come back.
Does it have sound?
Yes, if you want it. Press Music in the player to loop a soundtrack chosen for the current scene, and set the level with the volume slider. Music is off by default and nothing is downloaded until you turn it on.
