Muzei Live Wallpaper

- July 17, 2017

Everyone

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Description

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.

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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 in New York by Roman Nurik. 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.

Many thanks to Ian Lake for the watch face, and the many other contributors that help make Muzei possible.

Reviews

4.4

47,860 total

5 30,700

4 9,835

3 3,601

2 1,602

1 2,122

Joe Vegas

This was a fairly decent app until the Nougat update that forced Samsung users to use a Samsung store to change wallpapers instead of the traditional, stock, wallpaper selector. This is remedied with the Google app wallpaper selector. My biggest issue with Muzei is the UI. There's no explanations anywhere. I've had the so for a year or two now and I either forgot how to adjust/turn off the blur or the option has been removed/relocated. Either way it takes the user way too long to figure out how to customize a fairly basic feature of a fairly basic app...

Jacob Shuman

Edit: I changed my review from 3 to 2 stars because now muszei is stuck on a single wallpaper from backdrops please fix this I like the idea of the app but the execution seems a bit poor in two particular areas (that I know of). I use muzei in combination with backdrops to randomly pick a wall paper from backdrops every 4 hours. Unfortunately every few switches the wallpaper is cut off half way and only shows black for the bottom half. Another major issue is the widget which is supposed to force the next wallpaper to load but it seems most of the time it doesn't change the wallpaper at all. I like the idea of the app but these bugs need to be fixed

Nathan Williams

The app gets hung up alot and stops changing the wallpapers. I have to go in and force it to change to the next one. I have it set to change every 8hrs, using WiFi. It seems the issues arise when I'm not around WiFi for a bit. Hopefully this is fixed because its a decent app otherwise

Frederik Nagel

Stopped working on Xiaomi Mi5 after the last update. Every hour or so the wallpaper displays black, and it only resets to normal upon restarting the phone :( please find a solution, this app is wonderful!

Keith Mason

This used to be great but a recent update means that it no longer works. My screen is filled with white noise now when I'm using Muzei with Nova Launcher and have no way to address this. I can't use my phone when using Muzei. Until this is sorted I've had to lower my review.

Andrew Balchin

Great app but it's stopped automatically changing the wallpapers. I have to go into the app every time I want to do that. It's not as simple as pushing the >> button as it can be stubborn. I have to coax it in to working by navigating through the customise menus a bit, without actually changing any of the settings.

User reviews

Joe Vegas July 27, 2017

Jacob Shuman August 20, 2017

Nathan Williams August 19, 2017

Frederik Nagel July 19, 2017

Keith Mason August 18, 2017

Andrew Balchin July 31, 2017

Joseph Gramaglia July 24, 2017

Been using this app for years and loved it but recently stopped working and won't even let me manually change the wallpaper anymore. Can't figure out what's wrong with it but if fixed 5stars.

Harry Mitchell August 11, 2017

Fails to update the background 95% of the time and has no option for reframing/cropping the image to better fit your screen. You can even move/reframe the image in the app viewer, but there is no choice to actually keep that view when saving as your background.

George wise July 25, 2017

This stops changing wallpapers often, and even when you go into the app and try to get it to change, it keeps the same one.

Justin Cross July 21, 2017

Still doesn't update the wallpaper and when I click next manually it doesn't work. How is this not fixed yet? I will change back to 5 stars once it's finally fixed.

Alan C August 21, 2017

Wallpaper auto updates dont work and theres some graphical issues where top half of wallpaper goes black when going to homescreen Galaxy S6 Edge+ Android 7.0

Roman Nurik and Ian Lake February 6, 2015

Muzei 2.0 includes a watch face that keeps in sync with your device! If you aren't seeing it and Muzei was installed before your watch upgraded to Android 5.0, please try uninstalling and reinstalling Muzei. We also provide an open artwork API so that other watch faces can read your current background: http://api.muzei.co

David Johnson August 19, 2017

This app is amazing. They keep it updated with high resolution colorful historic paintings. You can access their archive from within the app. It also works with Android Wear and looks amazing on it. I have yet to see the same art twice!

Strong Duck July 28, 2017

Most of the time, it does not change the wallpaper automatically. Even though a day have past, and i dont even know how to just change or set the wallpaper manually.

Somendra Gurjar July 31, 2017

I have been using this application for 3 years. Since I've started using xiaomi redmi note 4 it doesn't update automatically. Pls fix this...

Brian Preble July 29, 2017

Used to live it, but the most recent patch broke things badly. It stopped changing wallpaper from all sources.

Vicente Solsona July 30, 2017

It gets stuck with the same picture for days. Please fix it

Георги Лалев August 15, 2017

An app that sole purpose is to change wallpapers in some interval stop changing wallpapers, seriously?

Jeffrey Shumway July 18, 2017

What a beautifully executed app. Nice blur effect and classic works of art. Great job!

Kenneth Jordan July 23, 2017

Does not change every day. Left same photo for 3 days and I still can't change it

Michael Spahn August 1, 2017

It's great, except that every few days to you have to reset the settings to make it keep working. Kind of ruins the point of it.

Ryan Stenz August 20, 2017

Awesome! Best wallpaper app. I also like using it with the Form watch face on my Sony Smartwatch 3

Bogdan Priymak August 14, 2017

Fails to update wallpaper

Jeremy Maritz July 20, 2017

Busted after the latest update on S8 and S8+. :/

Carlos Niquini August 8, 2017

It was once a great app, but now all I have is a black wallpaper.

AndroidJo 67 July 17, 2017

Still my favorite wallpaper!

Carmen Boudreaux July 26, 2017

Loved it until it stopped working. Please fix it .

Abood Ibrahim July 16, 2017

Keep going on updatea o_0

Jesse Ikawa August 2, 2017

Would be so awesome if it could restrict the wallpapers to a certain resolution.

Ebet Rogers August 16, 2017

It's a pretty good app. I didn't see where the keyboard was.

Vladimir Mazin August 12, 2017

Doesn't update daily

Mohsin Khan August 14, 2017

One of my best app for daily new paintings

Jakkarat Leungtheerapap July 20, 2017

Greatest wallpaper app ever!!

Rocki G June 5, 2017

Don't be deceived. This app has limited settings. The sources setting is utterly pointless and only links to the apps website where you cannot add sources. It claims to add a new image every day, but it only does this for a short period, then it grinds to a halt and you end up being stuck with the same image. Don't waste your time.

Hector July 5, 2017

As others have pointed out, the wallpapers have a tendency to get stuck. In my experience, if the phone is not connected to the Internet at a certain hour (during the night), then the app fails to download the daily picture. This shouldn't be, the app should detect when it has failed to download a picture and try to download again once it gets connected to the Internet at a later time until it manages to successfully download the image of the day.

Joe Piston June 25, 2017

Doesn't work most of the time. It's on my list to not hibernate. Even if I go into the app directly and select locally stored images and use the "next" button - nothing changing changes. Occasionally it will work and I have no idea why. I had to uninstall as I'd rather have expectation of static wallpaper than be disappointed constantly by one that's supposed to change and doesn't.

Resonance of Illumination - Ambition of Void July 15, 2017

I don't understand how after all this time the only option is still "random" when it comes to selecting images. Seeing the same 2 images repeated 3 or 4 times is something that happens regularly. Kind of sucks because the app itself works fine. If you could only add that one option...

Yechiam Weiss June 8, 2017

Best update ever! Finally next artwork widget! Edit: I just looked at the app size and ask myself how could this app be more than 1gb?! That's pretty much absurd don't you think? Please try to trim down the size in the next update and I'll return to 5 stars :)

Rudy Leonard June 26, 2017

Wallpapers stop rotating automatically after a couple of days and will only start again after clearing the cache. I love the app but this is annoying. Update: Uninstalled the app completely. Too much hassle trying to get it to automatically load new images each day like it should. Will check back later to see if this is addressed with a future update.

Joel C June 4, 2017

Fixed problems with stuck wallpaper. Both the app and any plug ins for the app that you use need to be placed in the hibernation ignored list on android. Otherwise this app is exactly what I was looking for with updated wallpaper.

Soffian Zainal June 21, 2017

I'm uninstalling this app because this app failed to change background after a few cycle. Unless the developer fix this issue, I would not recommend this app.