Lost Canvas
Restore the great paintings
Free
Forty-three masterpieces, cut into hexagons and taken apart. Turn the pieces, find the picture, hang it back on the wall. No timer, no score, nothing to buy.
Lost Canvas is a jigsaw puzzle for people who like paintings.
Forty-three of them — Monet, Van Gogh, Vermeer, Hokusai, Klimt, Botticelli, Goya, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Velázquez — cut into hexagons and taken apart. Put one back together and it is framed, hung on the wall of your gallery, and the room walks you on to the next one.
There are two ways a painting comes apart.
TURNING. Every hexagon is already in its right place and the wrong way up. Tap one to rotate it a sixth of a turn, until its brushwork runs into its neighbours'. A piece the edge of the painting crosses tells you which way is up; a piece in the middle of a sky tells you nothing, and those are the ones worth saving until last.
CLUSTERING. The painting is cut into clumps of hexagons, laid out along a strip beside the board. Drag each one to where it belongs. A cluster that fits a hole is not always the cluster that belongs in it, and finding out is the game.
The wall alternates between the two, and both grow: eight pieces in the first painting, seventy-four in the last.
No timer. No score. No lives, no energy, nothing to wait for and nothing to buy. Hold the Peek button and the finished painting shows through for as long as you hold it. Pinch to look closely at the brushwork. Put a painting down half done and it will be exactly where you left it.
A plaque under each one says what it is, who painted it and when. Every painting is a photograph of a real work in a real collection, taken from Wikimedia Commons, and every one is credited with its source and its licence on the About page inside the app.
The piano is real too: eight recordings of Bach, Handel, Beethoven and Chopin, six of them licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their pianist, all of them named in the app.
Plays on iPhone, iPad and Mac, upright or on its side, and the layout is drawn for each rather than stretched to fit.
No advertising. No in-app purchases. No account and no login. Nothing you do in the game is shared with anyone, and the whole of it plays with no connection at all.
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Information
- Seller
- Josef Cullhed
- Size
- 180.7 MB
- Category
- Puzzle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
• iPhone XS
• iPhone XS Max
• iPhone XR
• iPhone 11
• iPhone 11 Pro
• iPhone 11 Pro Max
• iPhone SE (2nd generation)
• iPhone 12 mini
• iPhone 12
• iPhone 12 Pro
• iPhone 12 Pro Max
• iPhone 13 Pro
• iPhone 13 Pro Max
• iPhone 13 mini
• iPhone 13
• iPhone SE (3rd generation)
• iPhone 14
• iPhone 14 Plus
• iPhone 14 Pro
• iPhone 14 Pro Max
• iPhone 15
• iPhone 15 Plus
• iPhone 15 Pro
• iPhone 15 Pro Max
• iPhone 16
• iPhone 16 Plus
• iPhone 16 Pro
• iPhone 16 Pro Max
• iPhone 16e
• iPhone 17 Pro
• iPhone 17 Pro Max
• iPhone 17
• iPhone Air
• iPhone 17e
• iPhone 18 Pro
• iPhone 18 Pro Max
• iPhone Duo - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
• iPad Pro (11‑inch)
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (3rd generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad mini (5th generation)
• iPad mini (5th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air (3rd generation)
• iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (2nd generation)
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (2nd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (4th generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air (4th generation)
• iPad Air (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad (8th generation)
• iPad (8th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation)
• iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad mini (6th generation)
• iPad mini (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad (9th generation)
• iPad (9th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air (5th generation)
• iPad Air (5th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad (10th generation)
• iPad (10th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (4th generation)
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (6th generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (6th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 11-inch (M2)
• iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 13-inch (M2)
• iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M4)
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M4)
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad mini (A17 Pro)
• iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad (A16)
• iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 11-inch (M3)
• iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 13-inch (M3)
• iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M5)
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M5)
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 11-inch (M4)
• iPad Air 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 13-inch (M4)
• iPad Air 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Josef Cullhed