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Antiqua is a puzzle game for iPhone that cuts public-domain paintings into hexagons. You piece a masterpiece back together, then turn its card to read who made it, when, and why it lasted. The catalogue holds 512 works from the open-access collections of four museums; 61 are free to play, and a membership opens the rest. It launched on the App Store on 10 October 2026, built by one person under Rooted Heart LLC.

Name: Antiqua. The line under it: Great art, one piece at a time.
Platform: iPhone, iOS 18 or later. Portrait, built to be picked up for a few minutes at a time.
Released: 10 October 2026, on the App Store. The current version is 1.8.
Price: Free to download, with 61 works to play and no account needed. A membership opens the full catalogue: $5.99 a month, $59.99 a year or $200 once. Any member pack can also be bought on its own.
The collection: 512 paintings, prints and drawings, all in the public domain, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Rijksmuseum. Every work carries its museum credit, and new works are added regularly.
Play: Hexagonal pieces and four difficulties. Every board has a picture side and a text side, the painting’s story cut into fragments. A finished work becomes a collectible card with the wall text on its back, hangs on your own gallery wall, and can be sat with full screen on the Bench. Game Center keeps leaderboards and achievements.
Accessibility: VoiceOver support, four reading themes, Dark Mode, Reduced Motion, and text that follows the iPhone’s size.
Privacy: No account, no tracking, no sign-up. Progress stays on the phone. The privacy page has the full version.
Maker: Fournier, a solo developer, under Rooted Heart LLC. The longer story is on the About page.
The pledge: Antiqua pledges a portion of its proceeds to museum preservation.
Links: App Store · antiqua.gallery · Roadmap · @antiqua.rh on Instagram

Screenshots

Four screens, one painting.

Monet’s Cliff Walk at Pourville from the board to its card, in Noir, the default theme. Each image is 1320 x 2868; open one to save the full size.

The Antiqua puzzle board mid-solve: Monet’s Cliff Walk at Pourville cut into gold-edged hexagons on a black ground — The puzzle, picture side. Claude Monet, Cliff Walk at Pourville, 1882. Image: The Art Institute of Chicago, public domain (CC0).

The same board turned to its text side: each hexagon holds a fragment of the painting’s story — The text side. The same board turned over, the painting’s story in fragments.

The completion card for Cliff Walk at Pourville: the painting in a gilt frame, its title, Claude Monet, the year 1882 and the museum that holds it — The card, front. Title, artist, year and the museum that holds the work.

The card turned over: the wall text about the painting, its medium and the time it took to solve — The card, back. The wall text, the medium and the solve time.

The paintings are public domain and may be reproduced with their museum credit. The Antiqua name, wordmark, writing and design belong to Rooted Heart LLC; please use them only to describe the app.

Images and words

The icon, the card and the boilerplate.

App icon

A gilt hexagon.

1024 x 1024 PNG, the icon as it appears on the App Store.

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Great art, one piece at a time.

1200 x 630 JPEG. Wheat Field with Cypresses, Vincent van Gogh, 1889. Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0).

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Antiqua is an iPhone puzzle game that turns public-domain paintings into hexagonal jigsaws. Finish a work and keep its card, with the museum’s wall text on the back. The catalogue of 512 works comes from the open-access collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Rijksmuseum. Free to start, no account needed. Made by one person. antiqua.gallery

Questions, interviews, a longer look at how it is made: [email protected].