Salon: Museum Art Frame
Paintings, photos, maps, space
Only for Apple TV
$9.99
Apple TV
New: your own iCloud photos. Favorite a photo on your iPhone and it becomes available on your TV, in the same frame as the paintings.
Salon turns your Apple TV into a picture frame.
Choose a picture and it stays there — edge to edge, filling the screen the way a picture fills a wall. No captions, no clutter, nothing between you and the work.
CHOSEN, NOT SCRAPED
Every picture in Salon has been looked at by a person before it reaches your wall. Open collections are full of work that is free to use and hopeless on a television: portraits taller than they are wide, faint pencil studies, the blank back of a sketchbook page. None of that is here.
What is here has been checked for shape, for sharpness, and for whether it still looks like something from across a room — then cut to exactly 3840 x 2160, so your television neither crops it nor letterboxes it.
THE GALLERIES
Renaissance, Old Master Prints, Baroque, Dutch Golden Age, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Hudson River School, Barbizon School, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Ukiyo-e, Master Drawings, American Painting, Early Modern Painting — and Featured, drawn from all of them.
Then the ones that are not paintings:
Space — Jupiter's cloud belts, Pluto's mountains, the Andromeda galaxy, aurorae seen from orbit. Earth from Above — river deltas, ice sheets and deserts, photographed mostly by the Landsat satellites. Early Colour Photography — Photochrom prints of the 1890s and Kodachromes of wartime America. Maps & Star Charts — hand-coloured world maps and celestial atlases. Photography and Architecture — landscapes, weather, light and buildings, by photographers working today. Abstract and Illustration — shape, colour and drawn pictures, from Kandinsky to now. ASCII Art — landscapes and planets drawn entirely in letters and symbols. Recently Added — the 30 newest pictures in the collection.
YOUR OWN ICLOUD PHOTOS
Tap the heart on a photo on your iPhone and it appears in Your Photos, through iCloud Photos, ready to display in the same frame as the paintings. Everything just syncs automatically. Upright photos are shown whole, with a soft, blurred copy of the photo filling the sides, or fill the screen if you prefer. Salon shows only the photos you have marked as favourites, and they never leave your Apple TV.
FRAMED OR NOT
Leave the picture edge to edge, or set it behind a bevel-cut mat — a passepartout in five board colours and three widths, with an even border on all four sides. A live preview beside the settings shows the real thing as you choose it.
A CLOCK (AND DATE)
Choose if you want to see a clock or clock + date, or turn it off altogether. Can be moved to any corner. Twelve or twenty-four hour.
FAVORITES
Save pictures to Favourites and let the frame move through them on its own — every minute, five, fifteen, every hour or once a day, in order or shuffled, fading gently from one to the next. Your favourites follow you through iCloud to every Apple TV on your Apple Account, and they are kept on each device, so the frame carries on working if your connection drops.
WHERE THE PICTURES COME FROM
Most of the collection is in the public domain, published freely by the museums and agencies that hold it, from the National Gallery of Art and the Met to the Rijksmuseum, NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. The contemporary photographs are shared by their photographers on Unsplash, and the ASCII pieces are by bas3line, under the MIT licence. Each picture names its source and rights on screen.
NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING, NO SUBSCRIPTION
Buy it once and it is yours forever.
No sign-in, no analytics, no data collection of any kind.
An internet connection is needed to browse and to add new pictures. Paintings stop around 1930, because later work is still under copyright almost everywhere.
Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese, with support for VoiceOver, Reduce Motion, Bold Text and Increase Contrast.
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Your own iCloud photos support - the most requested feature is now here!
- Your Photos: tap the heart on a photo on your iPhone and it appears in Salon through iCloud Photos, ready to be displayed in the same frame as the paintings.
- For portrait mode photos you can also choose if you want to show them as originals or zoomed in, so that whole screen is filled.
- Favourites are now synced to iCloud and are shown automatically on any Apple TV's that you own.
- Recently Added: a gallery of the 30 newest pictures, refreshed as new ones arrive.
- "Change Picture Automatically" can now change the picture once a day.
- A new app icon and Top Shelf: Winslow Homer's The Veteran in a New Field.
- The collection is now more than 1,100 pictures (and growing every week)
The developer, Rene Haavre, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Rene Haavre
- Size
- 36.2 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
Requires tvOS 17.0 or later.
- Apple TV
Requires tvOS 17.0 or later.
- Apple TV
- Languages
English and 5 more
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Sexual Content or Nudity
- Copyright
- © 2026 Salon

