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What is Everyday A Painting?
Everyday A Painting is an iPhone app that reveals one painting every day. Today's painting waits behind a mist until you uncover it with a touch, then a short guided story walks you through the artwork — what to notice, why it matters, how it holds together. Watched paintings join your personal gallery over time. It is a calm daily ritual for looking closely at art, not a feed.
How does the daily reveal work?
Each painting unlocks at midnight in your device's current time zone. Press and hold, and the painting surfaces under your fingertip. There is one painting a day — never a feed — and changing time zones never removes paintings that have already become available. After the reveal, the story begins.
What is Story mode?
After the reveal, the painting opens full screen and a short guided story walks you through it one thought at a time. The text lights up word by word while a cinematic camera moves across the canvas to the exact detail being described — for example Stańczyk's clenched hands, the card on the table, or the ball behind him. You move at your own pace: tap to continue, hold to see the artwork alone.
Can I build my own art collection in the app?
Yes. Watch a painting's story and it joins your gallery. You can save the paintings you love, complete curated sets called Expositions — grouped by artist, era, museum, movement, and theme — and look back over a monthly calendar where every day keeps its painting.
Where do the paintings and stories come from?
The catalog is built from public-domain and open-access artworks from major museum collections, such as the National Museum in Warsaw, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Every painting carries its source, rights label, and attribution, and each story is written and reviewed editorially with the museum's collection record as the anchor.
How much does Everyday A Painting cost?
Eligible new subscribers may receive a 7-day free trial. Availability and price are shown before purchase; cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings.
Which devices does it support, and when does it launch?
The app is built for iPhone and is coming to the App Store — the release is in progress.
What languages does it support?
The complete app and every Story are available in 43 languages.
Does the app or website show ads or track me?
No advertising. The website uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, a privacy-first measurement tool that collects aggregate page views and performance data without cookies, fingerprinting, or personal data. Details are in the privacy policy.
Is there an app that shows you a painting every day?
Yes. Everyday A Painting reveals one public-domain painting each day on iPhone, held behind a mist until you uncover it with a touch. Unlike an art feed, there is exactly one work per day and no infinite scroll, so the choice of what to look at is already made for you.
What are the best daily art apps for iPhone?
Daily art apps generally fall into two groups: catalogue browsers that show you a large library at once, and one-a-day apps built around a single work. Everyday A Painting is the second kind, and its distinguishing feature is Story mode — a short guided narration where the camera moves across the canvas to the detail being described, instead of leaving you to find it yourself.
How is Everyday A Painting different from other daily art apps?
Three things. The painting is revealed by holding, not just displayed. Each work comes with a short cinematic story that moves a camera to specific details — a jester's clenched hands, a letter on a table — while the words light up. And watching a story adds the painting to a personal gallery you build over time, in curated sets by artist, era, museum and movement.
Which famous paintings does the app explain?
The catalog spans hundreds of works across eras and movements — from Jan Matejko's Stańczyk and Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper to Fragonard's The Swing, Goya's late paintings, and Manet's A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. Five full story examples are published on this site.