Coming soon to iPhone
One painting a day, and the story behind it.
YEUX brings you one masterpiece each morning from the world's great museums, and tells you why it matters. A few quiet minutes with great art. No feed, no noise.
How it works
A small daily ritual, built to last.
Most art apps want your whole evening. YEUX wants a few minutes of your morning, every morning, and to leave you knowing a little more than you did yesterday.
One painting, every morning
Chosen by hand from the open collections of the world's great museums. Not a feed. Just one.
Claude Monet, Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer). Art Institute of Chicago
The story behind it
Who made it, what was going on, and what to look for. Short enough for your coffee, good enough to remember.
Johannes Vermeer, A Maid Asleep. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keep the ones you love
Save a painting to your Library and come back to it whenever you like. Over a year, that's a collection of your own.
Mary Cassatt, The Child's Bath. Art Institute of ChicagoThe story
Read it in the time it takes to drink a coffee.
Tap and the story opens over the painting: who made it, what was going on, and what to look for. We check the stories against each museum's own record, and fix anything we get wrong.
Browse
Wander by movement or by artist.
No endless search box, no filters. Paintings are gathered the way a curator would, into the families of ideas that shaped how art got made, and the people who made it.
Artists
Meet the people who made them.
Every artist has a short life story and their works in YEUX, so one painting you liked leads you to the next.
The whole picture
See all of it, then look closer.
Today opens on a detail chosen to pull you in. Open the painting to see the whole thing, then pinch in until you can see the brushstrokes.
Share
Pass it on.
Found one you love? Send it to your Instagram Story in one of three looks, or share it anywhere else.
Library
Keep the ones you love.
Save a painting with one tap. Your Library stays on your phone, ready whenever you want to look again. Over a year, that's a collection of your own.
The details
Small things, done properly.
Home Screen widget
Today's painting on your Home Screen, in two sizes.
A gentle nudge
One reminder a day, at a time you choose. Or none at all.
Missed a day?
Scroll back through recent days. Nothing to catch up on, no streak to lose.
Quiet by design
Made to be calm.
YEUX doesn't want your attention all day. It wants a few good minutes of it. So some things are left out on purpose.
- No accountNothing to sign up for. Open it and look.
- No adsAnd no third-party trackers. YEUX counts taps, not people, and you can switch even that off.
- No streaksNo badges, no red dots, no guilt for missing a day.
Where the art comes from
Every painting in YEUX comes from the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Rijksmuseum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark, and is credited to its museum, every time.
The waitlist
Be the first to see it.
YEUX is in testing now. Leave your email and we'll tell you the day it's on the App Store. Until then, there's a painting a day on Instagram at @yeuxdailyart.
Behind: Rembrandt van Rijn, The Night Watch. Rijksmuseum