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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Muzei now includes a watch face for Android Wear, so you can see your latest wallpaper right on your wrist!

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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

This app is essential and one of the apps I've used the longest on Android (maybe 10+ years) but the settings need a HUGE overhaul. It's confusing to find any setting because it could be on any one of the 3 tabs and hidden behind either a button or a 3 dots menu. It's time to update the settings to be in one menu, this is way too confusing to use in 2022.

The app is great, but i have one issue that's really annoying. My setup is using a single home screen, a landscape image (using Reddit extension), and the phone is in portrait mode. Instead of displaying the center of the image, Muzei acts like I have two home screens and shows me the left side instead of the middle. I'm not quite sure how to fix this, but it's super annoying and I just want it to be centered. EDIT: Devs responded, I switched back to Nova Launcher and everything works fine now.

What happened to the option to frequency that pictures would change? I've had this app for years. I'm not loving how it's changed in the past year, where the screen to add/change/select and delete are split In two but it's cool. The features I need still exist. My main issue is the fact that I can't change when the paper will change? I use to be able to tell It every 30 minutes, every hour, every day or so on. Dev reply fixed this! I'm just dumb

What's new

- Muzei now automatically swaps between a bottom navigation when in portrait and a navigation rail alongside the left side of the screen when in landscape
- Fixed a regression with the Tasker integration that was introduced in Muzei 3.4.4
- Fixed a number of crash issues in previous Muzei 3.4.5 builds, particularly on Android 4.4 devices

Note that live wallpaper apps crash on Android 12 Beta 1 due to https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/188636390 - please update to Android 12 Beta 2.