Muzei Live Wallpaper

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

Works exactly like it says it does. Super easy to understand and operate. It took me less than 5 minutes from when I installed the app to move my photos into a folder, use my phone's wallpaper crop on all the photos, and then use this app to select art randomly out of that folder. So easy! (warning: based on the other reviews I've seen of this app, if you need to read the instructional label on the shampoo bottle, then you should probably go find an adult to help you with this app)

Tis nice. The only complaint I have is I wish it had a way to set the pics for a single screen and center focuses. I only use one screen on the phone so images tend to get streched out too wide or tall to show pages that don't get used so you can't actually see the pic. Other than that it's nice to have changing pics and see new stuff in the background.

I've used this app almost two weeks. I have very much enjoyed it although, the first couple of days it did not change out my wallpaper as scheduled. That seems to have resolved now and is changing every 24 hours as set. One major issue remains though. I have the source set to use my photos. The app does not find all of my photos. It seems there is no rhyme or reason as to which photos it sees, as some are older and some are newer. Still, an amazing app, highly recommended!

What’s new

- Crash fixes
- New translations - join our CrowdIn project to add your own translations: https://crowdin.com/project/muzei