cents = winning bid × exposed area × time
Your half of whatever the sponsor on your screen bids, measured by the minute. Sponsors rotate; the top bid above is what the market leader pays.
How it works
1. Measure
Every 5 seconds the client computes how much wallpaper is exposed. Window rectangles only, never contents, plus whether you're actually at the machine.
2. Display
A sponsor creative is composited into the largest exposed region of your wallpaper. Pause anytime; your original is always restored.
3. Split 50/50
Active exposed screen time becomes cents on an append-only ledger. Request a payout from $10. The math is public.
What leaves your machine
Window rectangles, never your screen. No window titles. No process names. No screenshots. The full list of every field 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.
It depends who's bidding. The rate is set by an open auction between sponsors, and you get half of whatever the winning bid pays, measured by the minute. When nobody's bidding, it's zero. The live number is right there on this page, and the full formula and caps are public on the transparency page.
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 a day, exposed area clamped to two 4K monitors, 5 devices per account. 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.
Run a company fleet? Meet DeskProof.
The same signed agent, working for IT and comms teams: push your own wallpaper to employee machines and get per-person proof it was actually displayed. From the PaperRoute team.
Put the idle corner to work
Cents, not riches. Counted in the open.