Dastan: Daily Art & Poetry
A museum for your mornings
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
One painting. One page. One poem — every day. From Hokusai to Hafez, Vermeer to García Márquez. A daily museum that fits in your pocket.
Dastan is a quiet companion for the curious — a pocket salon where painting, literature, and philosophy share a single wall.
Each day opens with a canvas chosen for you: one painting, one page from a novel, one verse from a poet. A slow feed for the eye and the ear, not a scroll that fights for your attention.
THE GALLERY: Five centuries of paintings, hung in one endless wing. Tap to rehang the room — the curator's prerogative — and a fresh sample is drawn from the collection. Every plate opens into a full-screen lightbox with the painter, year, and movement set in proper typographic care.
THE ARTISTS: The hands behind the work. A masonry of portraits with dates, origins, and the movements they helped shape — from the Renaissance to the Post-Impressionists.
THE THINKERS: Twenty-five centuries of philosophers, charted as a stream across time. See the rise and fall of every tradition — Classical Greek, Hellenistic, Scholastic, Rationalism, Existentialism, and more — then dive into individual thinkers, their quotes, and the schools they belonged to.
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Information
- Seller
- Majid Sadri
- Size
- 62.4 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Dastan