Taide

Fine art wallpapers for Android

Museum masterpieces on your phone.

Taide (say TIE-deh) is Finnish for art.

Taide is an Android art wallpaper app with over 59,000 public-domain artworks from The Met, the Finnish National Gallery, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Explore Curated Themes and set a painting, print or drawing as your wallpaper.

Set wallpapers yourself or let the daily highlight change them each morning for free. Taide Pass adds rotations of art you choose, Times of day and Colour relay. See what's included.

  • Real paintings, never AI-generated
  • No ads
  • No account needed
Join the waiting list Browse themes

Coming soon to Google Play

Taide setting a snowy forest painting as a phone's wallpaper
Pekka Halonen, Sunlit Winter Landscape, 1911Download original · 4000 × 5620 · 3.9 MB
Finnish National Gallery · Photo: Aleks Talve · Public domain

Times of day

Let your wallpaper follow the light.

Taide changes your wallpaper with the day where you are: soft blues before sunrise, bright days, the golden hour, then moonlight and lamplight. Each moment has its own paintings, so the screen always matches the sky outside.

See all six times of day

Times of day comes with Taide Pass. Taide follows the sun from your approximate location, or from a city or fixed hours you choose.

Colour relay

One colour. Another world.

A colour in one artwork leads to the next. Let your wallpaper take you through paintings, prints and drawings, connected by the colours they share.

  1. The Wind Blows by Hugo Simberg on an Android home screen, with the Taide widget

    The Wind BlowsHugo Simberg

  2. The next Colour relay wallpaper: a folio from Mantiq al-Tayr

    The Beggar who Professed his Love for a PrinceFolio from Mantiq al-Tayr

  3. The following Colour relay wallpaper: Tanners by Juho Rissanen

    TannersJuho Rissanen

Shared ochre
Shared warm brown
Three real wallpapers from a Colour relay. The swatches illustrate colours shared by the neighbouring pictures. Artwork and image credits.
See Colour relay in action

Automatic rotation with Taide Pass. Choose how often it changes.

What's inside

A museum that fits in your pocket.

  • Curated themes

    Golden hour, Winter light, Dark academia, Gods and monsters and more, each one picked painting by painting. Browse themes

  • Art movements

    From the Renaissance to Impressionism, ukiyo-e and the Finnish Golden Age. Or search by artist and subject. Browse artists

  • Artwork of the day

    A new museum highlight every morning, with a short note about the work. Make it your wallpaper and it changes by itself.

  • Wallpaper rotation

    The daily highlight changes your wallpaper each morning for free. Taide Pass adds rotations of themes, movements and your collections, plus Colour relay.

  • Made to fit

    Crop each painting for the home and lock screen, and keep a history of the wallpapers you've had.

  • Nothing in the way

    No ads and no pop-ups. Favourites and collections are saved on your phone, with no account to make.

Explore Taide

Find the art that feels like you.

Start with a mood, an era or an art movement. Open a curated theme and discover the paintings inside, with their artists, titles and museum collections.

Find your next theme
Taide Explore screen with curated themes including Dark Academia and Sea Air, followed by eras Inside the Behind the Mask theme: a grid of museum artworks with titles and artists
Real screens from Taide. Artwork credits.

Before you start

Questions about Taide.

What can I do for free?

Browse museum artworks, explore Curated Themes and artists, set any artwork as your wallpaper yourself, and save unlimited favourites. You can also let the free daily highlight change your wallpaper each morning.

What requires Taide Pass?

Taide Pass adds automatic rotation of themes, movements, artists, colours and your collections, plus Times of day and Colour relay. It also lets you create personal collections and save colours. Current plans and prices are shown in the app before you buy.

Does Taide show ads?

No. Taide has no ads, whether or not you have Taide Pass.

Do I need an account?

No Taide account or sign-in is needed. Favourites and collections are kept on your phone. Pass purchases and restores use your Google Play account.

Need help using the app? Visit Taide support.

Coming soon to Google Play

Be the first to know.

One email when Taide launches on Google Play. Coming to Android first; an iPhone version hasn't been decided.

No account or email app needed. Your phone answer helps us count interest in an iPhone version. To leave the list, contact support@taideapp.com.