A new masterpiece on your phone daily

Install Tessera and turn on rotation. It picks a new painting from its curated collection and sets it on your home and lock screen on its own, once a day. You can frame each one first in side by side previews. Rotation runs as a scheduled job that respects your battery and Wi-Fi settings. Pro adds custom schedules, including hourly.

Yes. The free version gives you a new art wallpaper every day, the full gallery with filters, the Home and Lock preview, favourites, history and the automatic daily changer. Pro is a one-time purchase with no subscription. It adds HD masters, the story behind each painting, six style filters, five colour grades, unlimited favourites, custom schedules and separate Home and Lock crops.

Tessera has them. The Starry Night, Irises, Sunflowers and Almond Blossom are all in the collection, alongside Monet, Vermeer, Hokusai, Klimt, Cassatt and more than 200 other artists. Open the gallery, filter by artist, and frame the painting for your home or lock screen. Every work is in the public domain, from open access museum collections.

Yes. Every artwork in Tessera is in the public domain, sourced from museums' open access collections. The artist and title are shown for each painting. Tessera is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any museum.

Tessera is built not to. It is not a live wallpaper and runs no background service to animate your screen. Paintings are fetched when you ask for them and cached, and rotation runs as a scheduled job that respects your battery and Wi-Fi settings. The style filters run on your phone's GPU, so applying one costs almost nothing.

Yes. Tessera can apply a painting to the home screen, the lock screen or both. The side by side preview shows both screens before you commit, with pinch to zoom framing. With Pro you can crop the home and lock screens separately, so each one frames the part of the painting you like best.

No. Tessera has no ads and no account or sign up of any kind. You open it and today's painting is there, ready to apply. Paintings are fetched when you ask for them and cached on the phone. Paid features come from a single one-time Pro purchase, not a subscription, and that payment unlocks everything, including features added later.