Wallpaper Viewer1.0.0

If you're constantly looking for beautiful and high-quality wallpapers to breathe life into your desktop but don't want to waste a lot of time searching for them on the web, you can try Wallpaper Viewer.Made with the Electron framework, it's an ultra-simplistic tool for Windows users, adopting an elegant appearance and straightforward commands for viewing and applying desktop wallpapers.

Explore and set photos as desktop wallpapers

To get it running, you just have to double-click the downloaded .exe since it brings up the main app window right away (a program shortcut is automatically placed on the desktop).You are greeted by a very large window that takes up most of your screen and cannot be resized, showing a long list of available wallpapers, including their thumbnail and author. Once you set your eye on a particular photo, you just have to click the "Set Wallpaper" button next to it.

Offers free, high-quality photos from Pixabay

Confirming the action isn't necessary because the change is immediately applied (you can go to the desktop and see so for yourself). Wallpaper Viewer doesn't contain anything else, not even a note about where the pictures come from.After a brief investigation of its source code, we discovered that the wallpapers are hosted on Pixabay (the "Popular" section), a photo hosting domain that provides high-quality wallpapers to users worldwide, completely free of charge. This is important to mention because the wallpapers do not have copyright watermarks, which means they can be even used for commercial purposes for free, without having to worry about legal repercussions.

Download images from Pixabay without login

All aspects considered, Wallpaper Viewer does not only provide a simple way to find online images and set them wallpapers, but also a quick mode of leaving out copyright pictures in order to use them for personal and commercial purposes for free. Also, the Pixabay website requires users to sign up and log in with an account to be able to download pictures while this program skips this step.