Video wall software for Windows
Anemone Player is video wall software for Windows that displays multiple videos and images across one screen or many, arranged in a grid you pick from presets. It runs as a standard desktop app — no dedicated wall-controller hardware, no cloud dashboard, no per-screen licensing tiers.
What counts as "video wall software"?
Traditionally, a video wall meant a matrix switcher and rack-mounted controller feeding a physical bank of displays — hardware built for permanent installs with a specialist to configure it. Software video walls do the same job differently: a PC with enough outputs (or a single high-resolution display split into panels) runs an application that arranges video and image sources into a grid, with no dedicated controller in the chain.
Two ways to build a video wall with Anemone
- —Single-screen grid: split one monitor into a live grid of video and image panels — a 2×2 split, a wide multi-column layout, or a custom arrangement.
- —Multi-monitor spanning: each connected display gets its own full-screen window, with its own layout and its own content — not one stretched desktop, but a genuine array of independent screens.
Combine both and you get a wall of several monitors, each one running its own grid of sources — the closest a single PC gets to a hardware video wall controller.
What you get
- —No fixed cap on the number of sources in a layout, or the number of displays.
- —Video and images mixed freely in the same grid — most video wall tools are video-only.
- —A deduplicated shuffle: every clip in your library plays once before anything repeats.
- —Runs unattended — set the layout, hit Go, and it keeps playing indefinitely.
- —Custom layouts are a JSON file — build and share your own instead of being limited to presets.
What it doesn't do
Anemone is one licensed instance per machine — it doesn't ship a central controller that coordinates content across several separate PCs. If your video wall is one PC with multiple outputs, that's exactly the job it's built for. If it's a large installation spanning many independent machines, you'd be running an instance on each and managing their content yourself; there's no networked sync between them today.
Step-by-step: set up a video wall with Anemone Player
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Download and install Anemone Player
Free download for Windows — no credit card needed to start.
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Open the app and start your trial
Register with your email or a Google account to get a license key instantly — 30 days, full features.
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Pick a grid layout for each screen
Choose a preset per monitor, or build a custom arrangement to match the wall you're driving.
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Drag your videos and images into the panels
Mix content freely — each panel plays independently within its grid.
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Hit Go
Every screen starts playing at once and keeps running unattended.
Build your video wall, free
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Frequently asked questions
Do I need special video wall hardware?
No. Anemone Player runs as ordinary Windows software on a standard PC with enough video outputs for the monitors you're driving — no matrix switcher, wall controller, or proprietary box required.
Can I run a video wall across multiple monitors from one PC?
Yes. Each connected monitor gets its own full-screen window with independent content and its own layout — it isn't one image stretched across displays.
Can I run a video wall across multiple separate PCs?
Not natively. Anemone doesn't include a central controller or cross-machine sync — each PC runs its own licensed instance independently. For a wall driven by one machine with several outputs, that's exactly what it's built for; for a wall spanning many separate PCs, you'd be coordinating each instance's content yourself.
Does it work for digital signage too?
Yes — the same grid layouts and unattended playback that make it work as a video wall make it suitable for retail, lobby, and event signage. See our digital signage player guide for the signage-specific details.
How many screens or video sources does it support?
There's no fixed cap on panels in a layout — grids range from a single panel to dense arrangements of 20 or more. The practical limit is your PC's outputs and decoding headroom. One license covers up to 2 devices running simultaneously.