Poster-quality art, hand-picked into themed collections you would actually want on your phone.
Each one grouped by mood rather than by tag, so you browse the way you actually feel about a picture — not the way a filter sorts one.
Not a library we licensed and sorted into folders. Original work, produced for this app, because what we wanted on our own phones didn't exist.
That's why the collections hold together. They were made as collections — thirteen of them, each with a point of view — rather than assembled from whatever happened to be going.
Everything in Curata is original artwork, made at full resolution for current iPhone screens and hand-picked into collections that hold together. If a piece does not earn its place in one, it is not in the app.
Grouped by mood and subject rather than by tag — painted portraits, folk and ritual, the mystic east, engraved line-work. You browse a room, not a search index.
Buy a pack once, or unlock everything once. No monthly fee, no renewals, nothing to cancel. The Welcome pack is free so you can see the quality before paying anything.
No advertising, no third-party analytics, nothing following you between apps. You came for pictures; that is all the app is.
We don't target you with it. We don't sell it. We hold no copy of it. There is nothing for us to hold.
There is no account and nothing to sign in to. Your favourites are stored on your device and nowhere else. The app fetches artwork from our image host, which sees an ordinary web request in order to send a picture back — nothing about you travels with it. Purchases go through Apple, so we never see a card number. No analytics, no advertising identifier, no trackers.
It is a small app that does one thing. That was the point.
— Ricky Chopra, who made this
One piece from each collection, at the resolution it ships at.
