Tessera: Design Studio
Cards, Posters, Wallpaper
Free · In‑App Purchases
Create infinite patterns and mosaics! Use them as backgrounds, wallpapers or for web, print and postcards.
Tessera turns shapes, images, text, and symbols into seamlessly repeating patterns of any kind.
Built for hobbyists, professionals and everyone who enjoys playing around with an pattern creation tool!
• Import an image and fill its shape with symbols to create a unique and highly customizable mosaic pattern.
• Place a photo of yourself onto the canvas and fill the space around it with icons, text or whatever your like
• Design a wallpaper full of interesting geometric shapes.
• Create a symmetric background pattern you can use as a background for your presentation, website or phone background.
• Fill a tile with emojis and repeat them infinitely.
• Pick from a large number of preset color schemes or add your own
• Compose simple symbols into something bigger
• Add excitement and variability by turning up randomized per-symbol effects like rotation, size or color
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• Export your creations at any resolution
• Choose PNG exports for exact sizes
• Choose PDF exports for crisp, vector-friendly workflows
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Start today and make your dream pattern!
more - Fixed some issues
2.4 May 19
- New title-logo design studies explore more basic and decorative text lockups for cards and postcards
- Title lockups are now available as editable built-in presets in their own Titles collection, with more badge, stamp, spotlight, framed, and color-letter styles
- Template gallery categories are clearer and Cards now includes more portrait and landscape title card templates
- Template gallery sidebar can now be brought back after hiding it, and grids keep filling the available space
- New built-in Birthday and Doodles collections expand the preset library with more editable symbols, shapes, and inline variants
- Built-in symbol collections read more clearly, with a broader Doodles category and a simpler Birthday icon
- Managing visible symbol collections and color palettes is now simpler with dedicated editor sheets and clearer sidebar organization
- PNG export now lets you choose Print or Digital output directly in the export dialog
- Built-in system palettes are now more curated and distinct, and palette backgrounds no longer blend into the palette colors
- Symbol collection details now show larger, clearer previews of each preset
- Uploaded SVG symbols can now randomize their editable accent colors from the current palette
- Organic layouts can now switch between faster and denser fill behavior in document and mosaic settings
- Birthday presets and uploaded SVG symbols now keep their palette-driven colors more reliably across editing, reopening, snapshots, and exports
- Custom color editing is clearer, smoother, and safer, with custom controls, before-and-after previews, smarter hex entry, and document-specific recent colors
- Inspector panels are cleaner and more consistent, with sizing and choice controls shown where they actually apply
- Overlay Stack effects can now fine-tune each layer individually while still affecting the layout
- Everyday editing is smoother with fixes for header tap targets, grid versus organic size behavior, and redundant or non-working controls
- Automatic text symbol names now show multiline content more clearly
2.3 Apr 26
- Lock symbols to prevent accidental edits and stage adjustments
- Symbol editing feels clearer with smarter group controls steadier lists and layout mismatch warnings
- Opening Mac documents and editor windows is now more reliable
- New crescent symbols are available in the preset library
- New spacer symbols push stack layouts to edges and stay intact after reopening
- Number drags now stay on clean step values at higher speeds
- Manage custom symbols faster, import images or SVG files, and edit SVG colors
2.2 Apr 8
* Template gallery feels clearer and now includes more postcard templates
* Swipe right to select multiple symbols and batch hide duplicate or delete them
* Grouped symbols feel clearer and more preset categories now include free starter symbols
* Image symbols keep original size and can quickly restore manual image sizing
* Text symbols can now use an optional background
* Grid layouts now support square cells, clearer subgrid overlays, and easier stage deselection
* Saved documents and Settings now remind you to unlock premium features
2.1 Mar 27
- New Subgrid mode for Grid layouts, including clearer on-canvas highlights and overlap warnings
- Major Stage + Inspector redesign for faster workflows, cleaner symbol management, and new manual placement groups
- Big Mosaic upgrade: mosaics now work as a normal group preset you can place anywhere, with improved mask/collision editing and more control per mosaic
- New Variation Map controls (spacing/scale/rotation) plus quicker inline collision editing
- Overhauled palettes + symbol organization (collections, search, favorites/tags, default palette, dedicated symbol manager)
- More presets and content: new templates, new symbols, improved line styles, better size/preset labels, expanded export size options
- Quality-of-life + polish: document-wide undo/redo, better number editing, improved Quick Look and platform behavior, and performance improvements
2.0 Mar 6
- Added a Mosaic layout for wallpaper canvases that masks symbols to a custom shape, with clip controls.
- Added a Show Mosaic Symbol toggle to visualize the shape while editing, even on an empty stage.
- Added a Fit to Mosaic Shape action for wallpaper sizing in Mosaic layouts.
- Added dedicated add buttons for Symbols, Pinned Symbols, and Mosaic Shape in the Stage overlay.
- Increased sizing control limits (scale, font size, width/height) so symbols can grow to very large sizes, including pinned symbols.
- Added a Show Grid toggle in Document Settings to display the stage grid overlay.
- Unified outlined and filled shapes into single group shapes with dynamic backgrounds and borders that can be combined.
- Added automatic collision shapes for dynamic symbol presets (SF Symbols, text, emoji, gears, images) plus icon shapes (gooey blob, arrow, parallel lines) with an Automatic/Manual toggle.
- Fixed the Typography System Font option to use the platform system font instead of a serif fallback.
- Kept rotation range mode stable when min/max meet, clamping the limits instead of switching to fixed rotation.
1.6.3 Feb 3
- Added a Mosaic layout for wallpaper canvases that masks symbols to a custom shape, with clip controls.
- Added a Show Mosaic Symbol toggle to visualize the shape while editing, even on an empty stage.
- Added a Fit to Mosaic Shape action for wallpaper sizing in Mosaic layouts.
- Added dedicated add buttons for Symbols, Pinned Symbols, and Mosaic Shape in the Stage overlay.
- Increased sizing control limits (scale, font size, width/height) so symbols can grow to very large sizes, including pinned symbols.
- Added a Show Grid toggle in Document Settings to display the stage grid overlay.
- Unified outlined and filled shapes into single group shapes with dynamic backgrounds and borders that can be combined.
- Added automatic collision shapes for dynamic symbol presets (SF Symbols, text, emoji, gears, images) plus icon shapes (gooey blob, arrow, parallel lines) with an Automatic/Manual toggle.
- Fixed the Typography System Font option to use the platform system font instead of a serif fallback.
- Kept rotation range mode stable when min/max meet, clamping the limits instead of switching to fixed rotation.
1.6.2 Jan 26
- Added a Mosaic layout for wallpaper canvases that masks symbols to a custom shape, with clip controls.
- Added a Show Mosaic Symbol toggle to visualize the shape while editing, even on an empty stage.
- Added a Fit to Mosaic Shape action for wallpaper sizing in Mosaic layouts.
- Added dedicated add buttons for Symbols, Pinned Symbols, and Mosaic Shape in the Stage overlay.
- Increased sizing control limits (scale, font size, width/height) so symbols can grow to very large sizes, including pinned symbols.
- Added a Show Grid toggle in Document Settings to display the stage grid overlay.
- Unified outlined and filled shapes into single group shapes with dynamic backgrounds and borders that can be combined.
- Added automatic collision shapes for dynamic symbol presets (SF Symbols, text, emoji, gears, images) plus icon shapes (gooey blob, arrow, parallel lines) with an Automatic/Manual toggle.
- Fixed the Typography System Font option to use the platform system font instead of a serif fallback.
- Kept rotation range mode stable when min/max meet, clamping the limits instead of switching to fixed rotation.
1.6.1 Jan 26
- Added a Mosaic layout for wallpaper canvases that masks symbols to a custom shape, with clip controls.
- Added a Show Mosaic Symbol toggle to visualize the shape while editing, even on an empty stage.
- Added a Fit to Mosaic Shape action for wallpaper sizing in Mosaic layouts.
- Added dedicated add buttons for Symbols, Pinned Symbols, and Mosaic Shape in the Stage overlay.
- Increased sizing control limits (scale, font size, width/height) so symbols can grow to very large sizes, including pinned symbols.
- Added a Show Grid toggle in Document Settings to display the stage grid overlay.
- Unified outlined and filled shapes into single group shapes with dynamic backgrounds and borders that can be combined.
- Added automatic collision shapes for dynamic symbol presets (SF Symbols, text, emoji, gears, images) plus icon shapes (gooey blob, arrow, parallel lines) with an Automatic/Manual toggle.
- Fixed the Typography System Font option to use the platform system font instead of a serif fallback.
- Kept rotation range mode stable when min/max meet, clamping the limits instead of switching to fixed rotation.
1.6 Jan 25
- Added pinch-to-zoom on the canvas
- Improved UI for iPad display sizes
- Improved composed symbol editor for easier composition
1.5 Jan 21
- Added legacy user migration
1.4.1 Jan 16
- Fixed some issues
more Version 2.4 May 19
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