opt-in · windows · 50/50 split
Your wallpaper owes you money.
PaperRoute measures the part of your desktop that's actually visible, places a sponsor there, and pays you half of what the space earns. Cents, not riches — computed in the open.
the entire business model
cents = 2 /* your 50% */ × exposed_megapixels × active_hoursMeasure
Every 5 seconds the client computes how much wallpaper is exposed — window rectangles only, never contents — and whether you're actually at the machine.
Display
A sponsor creative is composited into the largest exposed region of your wallpaper. Pause anytime; your original is always restored.
Split 50/50
Active-exposed megapixel-hours become cents on an append-only ledger. Request a payout from $10. The math is public.
privacy promise
We read window rectangles, never your screen. No window titles. No process names. No screenshots. The full list of every field that leaves your machine fits on one page: the data dictionary.
questions people actually ask
No — and you shouldn't take our word for it. The client reads window rectangles (geometry) to compute how much wallpaper is visible. It never reads window titles, process names, or screen contents. Every field we collect is listed in the data dictionary, and the client is source-visible.
Beer money, honestly. A typical 30%-exposed desktop earns roughly 2 cents per active hour. The formula, caps, and rate are public on the transparency page — we'd rather under-promise.
Day-one inventory is operator-funded house and affiliate ads — we pay your share out of pocket while real sponsor inventory is built. This is disclosed on the transparency page.
Earnings are capped server-side: 8 active hours/day, exposed area clamped to two 4K monitors, 5 devices per account, and anomalous devices are held for review instead of paid.
Your original wallpaper is backed up before the first ad is ever drawn and restored on pause, quit, and uninstall. Leaving an ad behind would be the fastest way to lose your trust.