Muzei Live Wallpaper

Roman Nurik and Ian Lake

About this app

Muzei is a live wallpaper that gently refreshes your home screen each day with famous works of art. It also recedes into the background, blurring and dimming artwork to keep your icons and widgets in the spotlight. Simply double touch the wallpaper or open the Muzei app to enjoy and explore the artwork in its full glory.

Alternatively, you can choose your favorite photos from your own gallery or other apps to use on your home screen. To keep your wallpaper fresh, Muzei will rotate through your favorite photos every few hours.

Finally, Muzei is developer-friendly. All the code is available at http://code.muzei.co and Muzei even offers a simple API that allows you to build your own wallpaper source. For API details, visit http://api.muzei.co.

If you use a third party Legacy Source, you must disable Battery Optimizations on that app to allow it to continue to load artwork. See https://medium.com/muzei/muzei-3-0-and-legacy-sources-8261979e2264 for more details.

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Made by Roman Nurik and Ian Lake, along with contributions from many in the Android community. Muzei is a transliteration of the Russian word музей, which means “museum.”

Featured artwork in Muzei is curated daily by our small staff and made possible thanks to WikiArt.org and its contributors.

Ratings and reviews

The app is awesome when it works. A few times while using this app for just over a year or so as my main wallpaper method. The app just dies and can not be opened for a few days up to a week, and then it goes back to working again. I'm not sure what is causing it to happen, but uninstalling and reinstalling doesn't fix it and only waiting til it magically starts working again is what works...frustrating for sure *Edit sent an email to dev, hoping to help with the issue

Pretty cool, I like it. Also I haven't noticed a battery consumption increase. 👍 Suggestion: 2 working modes; > The normal when images are shuffled when connected to WiFi. > Alternative mode when no WiFi (or not specific WiFi) is connected to, in this mode specific images are set (currently the pic is random when WiFi gets disconnected).

Love having this app on my phone. Probably the best app decision I have ever made. I would like for the paintings to scroll from one side to the other as I scroll through the home screens on my phone, and at one point I had to uninstall and reinstall. But really I am still completely satisfied with this app. You get a very wide rang of art and artists from all over history. I wouldn't mind seeing some sculpture added, but you don't miss it.

What's new

- Improved the randomness of the 'Next Artwork' after you've seen every image to better select images you haven't seen recently.
- Full compatibility with Android 14, including opening artwork details from third party sources