Your screen,
but gentler
Paper Overlay adds a subtle paper grain texture across your entire screen — reducing eye strain and making digital reading feel like real paper.
Paper Overlay adds a subtle paper grain texture across your entire screen — reducing eye strain and making digital reading feel like real paper.
We spend over 7 hours a day staring at cold, flat, glowing screens. Blue light filters help — but they don't change how unnatural a screen feels compared to paper.
Paper Overlay takes a different approach: instead of just filtering color, it adds the physical texture of paper to your screen. Your eyes relax because they perceive a familiar, organic surface — not a glowing rectangle.
Same text. Completely different feeling.
Precise control over every aspect of your screen texture.
Neutral, Warm, Sepia, Night, Reading — switch with a keystroke. Save unlimited custom presets with all settings.
Independent red, green, and blue channels plus gamma and brightness. Dial in the exact warmth your eyes prefer.
4 grain sizes from ultra-fine to coarse. GPU-accelerated tiling. Tiles from 64px to 512px for the perfect pattern.
Covers your entire desktop — 1 screen or 5. Handles mixed DPI and different scaling. Automatic hot-plug detection.
Set it and forget it. No complicated key combinations or endless settings. Paper Overlay is designed to be essential. It's so lightweight you won't even notice it's there, but your eyes will thank you.
The overlay is completely transparent to clicks. Work normally — mouse, apps, and games are never affected.
Download from the Microsoft Store. One click, no setup. Less than 2 MB.
Choose one of the 5 built-in presets or customize every parameter. The texture appears instantly on your screen.
Paper Overlay starts with Windows and runs silently in the system tray. Your eyes will thank you — you'll forget it's even there.
Automatically adapts to the language set on Windows.
One purchase. Yours forever. No subscriptions, no ads.
Try Paper Overlay free for 7 days. If your eyes don't feel the difference, it costs you nothing.
Download from the Microsoft Store