Fit To ScreenAnime wallpaper, measured against the screen it is going on

Finding the picture is the easy part

Two things decide whether a wallpaper works: whether it is yours to use, and whether it is the right shape and size for the screen you are putting it on.

FILE 3840 x 2160SCREEN 3440 x 144013% LOST13% LOST

Match the widths and a 16:9 picture is taller than a 21:9 screen, so 74% of its height survives and the rest is thrown away. Every page here is a version of this measurement.

  • FILE, the pixels you have
  • SCREEN, what the display asks for
  • LOST, what gets discarded

Is it mine to use?

Free to download and free to use are not the same thing. A file a server will hand you may still belong to a studio, a publisher or the artist who drew it, and a licence that forbids derivatives forbids the crop you were about to make.

There are four kinds of picture you can genuinely use: work a rights holder has released, work under a stated open licence, work you licensed from its artist, and work you made yourself. Everything else is somebody else's.

Will it fit?

A screen wants one pair of numbers and one shape. Get the pair wrong and the picture is stretched or soft; get the shape wrong and the parts you cared about are outside the frame before you ever see them.

Phones are taller than any artwork is composed in, ultrawides are wider, and a Retina panel quietly asks for twice the pixels its own menus report. Each of those has a page.

Find your screen

Every measurement on this site starts from the width of the panel in front of you. Read across, then follow the section that matches what you are setting it on.

1366 x 768the cheap laptop, still everywhere1920 x 1080the most common desktop in the world2560 x 1440the ordinary 27 inch monitor3440 x 1440the 34 inch ultrawide, 21:93840 x 21604K UHD, four times 1080p5120 x 1440the 49 inch super ultrawide, 32:95120 x 28805K, the Apple Studio Display

Bar length is the pixel WIDTH. Two panels on this scale share a width and differ entirely in height, which is why width alone never answers the question.

What each screen asks for

Windows desktop1920 x 108016:9and 2560 x 1440 on a 27 inchLaptop2560 x 166416:10scaling makes the reported number a lieMac5120 x 288016:9points are half the pixels on RetinaiPhone1179 x 255619.5:9two slots: lock and homeAndroid1080 x 240020:9wants extra width for the scrolliPad1668 x 23883:4has to work rotated as wellUltrawide3440 x 144021:9crops a normal picture hardTwo monitors3840 x 108032:9one spanned file, not two

Where to go next

FREE TO USEFree to download and free to use are not the same thingWhere a free anime background actually comes fromSCREEN SIZE4K is 3840 by 2160, and most files that claim it are notWhat the number buysSCREEN SIZETwo screens need one wide file, not two copies of a narrow oneDual monitor wallpaper without the seamDEVICESmacOS fills the screen, so the sides of your picture go missingWhat macOS does to yours

WHAT THIS SITE IS NOT

Fit To Screen hosts no wallpaper files and has no gallery. It is a new and independent project with no connection to any previous owner of this domain, and it is not affiliated with any studio, publisher or program named on it.