Tondo: Daily Art

One painting a day, with a note and nothing else. Free, no ads, no paywall. 2,300+ works, over half from outside Europe and North America.

One painting a day, from the world's great museum collections. Free, with no advertising and nothing locked away.

Tondo opens on a single artwork — a Rajput elephant, a Mughal bird study, a Japanese screen, a Dutch harbour — with its title, its maker, and the museum's own note on what you are looking at. Read it in a minute with your tea, or stay and look closer. Then it is done until tomorrow.

WHAT IS IN IT • 2,300 works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Art • More than half from outside Europe and North America — Japan, China, India, Persia and beyond, not the same forty paintings everywhere else shows you • Every image public domain, every plate high resolution, zoomable to the brushwork • Every day you have seen stays in the archive, and you can keep the ones worth returning to

WHAT IS NOT IN IT • No advertising • No paywalled archive • No account needed — sign in only if you want your collection to follow you to a new phone • Nothing between opening the app and the artwork

Made by one person. Write to support@dailytondo.com and that person reads it.