DeskCanvas

Decorate your Windows desktop with images and GIFs

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Decorate your Windows desktop with images and GIFs

4 followers

DeskCanvas is a free Windows app for placing PNG, JPEG, BMP, WebP, and animated GIF files directly on your desktop. Drag, resize, rotate, flip, reorder, adjust opacity, and lock each item so it becomes click-through. Layouts are saved locally, with no account or cloud required.

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Launch tags:Windows•Design Tools•Productivity

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GPT-5.6 let me turn a very specific idea into a shippable native Windows app instead of stopping at a prototype. It helped me work through platform-specific desktop window behavior, click-through locking, GIF animation, drag/resize/rotation controls, local persistence, testing, and installer packaging. Previously, that breadth of Windows-specific engineering was not practical for me to handle alone for such a small personal utility. With GPT-5.6, I could build, debug, and release DeskCanvas as a complete app.

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Hi Product Hunt! I built DeskCanvas with Codex and GPT-5.6 because I wanted a simple way to place favorite images and animated GIFs directly on the Windows desktop. You can drag, resize, rotate, flip, reorder, and adjust the opacity of each item. Once locked, everything becomes click-through and stays behind normal applications. All files and layouts are stored locally—no account or cloud service required. DeskCanvas is a small personal project, and v1.0.1 is available now. I’d love to hear what you would put on your desktop.

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