No ads. No timers. No account.
Smalti is a calm restoration game about bringing mosaics back to life. Draw pieces from your tray, turn them until they seat, and every board you solve resolves into a mosaic of uneven stones set in grout. A new mosaic waits every day, the same for everyone.
EVERY BOARD BECOMES A MOSAIC
Each board is a panel laid in stones, with a stone frame and a faint underdrawing of the picture to come. Seat the last piece and a band of light turns the stones you placed to the picture's colors, and each piece chimes a note, so every solved board plays its own melody.
A NEW MOSAIC EVERY DAY
The Daily Puzzle leads the home screen, and each day restores a different one of ten mosaic traditions. Solve it and the card fills with your finished mosaic, the time until tomorrow's and your month so far. Send a friend a link to the day's mosaic. Missed a day? It stays open in the calendar, and a month with every day solved seals into one finished picture. Settings can hide streaks. On iOS 26, the Games app lists Today's Mosaic and opens it in one tap, and the Home Screen widget draws your month as a small mosaic.
PICK A DIFFICULTY AND KEEP GOING
Choose one of five difficulties, from Beginner to Expert, and play as many boards as you like: there is always another, and nothing to wait for. Keep solving in a difficulty and a Masterwork opens: cut one fused slab into exactly the right shards and its picture joins your Collection. Every difficulty earns two pictures. Hard and Expert boards add Glaze marks, which pin a cell's color and turn a board into a deduction puzzle, and the Fold, where two mirror-image pieces must be seated as a symmetric pair. Every board is solvable by construction, with or without hints.
A LITTLE REAL HISTORY IN EVERY TRADITION
Each Tradition comes with a short note on the history behind it, and the picture you restore there is drawn after it: from Ravenna and St Mark's in Venice to the baths of Ostia, the zellij of Fez and the Vatican Mosaic Studio. Every mosaic in Smalti, boards, Collection, monthly seals and achievement badges alike, is drawn by the game's own renderer.
MORE WAYS TO PLAY
• Daily Excavation: an ever-deeper ladder of mosaics, new every day, with a Game Center depth board
• iPad: the board and tray side by side in landscape
DESIGNED TO BE KIND
• Hints that show a real placement, never a cryptic nudge
• Hint packs are optional and never needed to progress
• A quiet finish: the result and a one-word grade, not a time and a move count
• Color-blind assist, Reduce Motion, Dynamic Type and a full dark mode
• Six color themes
• No ads, ever: no rewarded video, no banners, nothing to sit through
• No account. No data collected. Works fully offline.
Made by one developer.
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