# Smalti: Mosaic Puzzle — Restore a mosaic every day

> Restore a mosaic every day (iPhone/iPad app by Ahmet Cetin.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smalti-mosaic-puzzle/id6792641328 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Ahmet Cetin](https://appshunter.io/developer/1456467912)
- Category: Games, Board, Puzzle
- Price: $6.99 with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 19 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified, China) and 2 more
- Released: 2026-08-13
- Data updated: 2026-11-04

## What is Smalti?

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.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: $6.99.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Apprentice Unlock | $5.99 | one-time |
| Artisan Unlock | $9.99 | one-time |
| Patron Unlock | $14.99 | one-time |
| Starter Bundle | $8.99 | one-time |
| Kilnfire Theme | $1.99 | one-time |
| Seaglass Theme | $1.99 | one-time |
| 40 Hints | $1.99 | one-time |
| 100 Hints | $2.99 | one-time |
| 5 Streak Freezes | $1.99 | one-time |


## Is Smalti safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Smalti.

## Is Smalti legit?

Smalti: Mosaic Puzzle has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Smalti is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.3 — 2026-11-03

Every board you solve is now a mosaic.

• Every board is now laid in uneven stones set in grout, over a faint underdrawing of its picture. Seat the last piece and a band of light turns the stones to the picture's colors.
• Each Tradition's picture is drawn after a real mosaic tradition, from Roman black-and-white floors to the gold of St Mark's and the zellij of Fez.
• The Collection, the monthly seals and the achievement badges are drawn by the game's own renderer, and every month now seals into a picture of its own.
• Smalti now runs on iPad, with the board and tray side by side in landscape.
• On iOS 26, the Games app lists Today's Mosaic and opens it in one tap.
• The Home Screen widget draws your month as a small mosaic, and Profile shows how to add it.
• A new layered app icon for iOS 26.
• Play as many boards as you like at five difficulties, from Beginner to Expert, and earn two mosaic pictures for your Collection in each by restoring its Masterwork.

Thank you for every mosaic you have restored.

### 1.2.1 — 2026-09-19

• Today's mosaic is no longer capped at two tries. Open it as often as you like, until it's whole.
• Already finished a day? Tap it in the calendar and restore it again from scratch — your streak and your records stay exactly as they were.
• Leaving a daily costs nothing now. Pause, step away, come back whenever.
• Hints no longer point at a tessera that is already where it belongs, and the hint outline is one clear line around the whole piece — easy to read even over a tile of the same colour.
• A sealed month now shows its finished mosaic in the calendar; tap it to see the whole work. On long months the footer no longer slips out of sight.
• The tray lost the empty stands that looked like missing pieces.

### 1.1 — 2026-08-19

A gallery-worthy refresh: the boards, tiles, menus and every mini-game have been repolished end to end, and the app icon now wears the studio's medallion. Opening a new pack briefly shows the masterpiece you're restoring toward — quick, skippable with a tap, and no longer able to overstay its welcome. The hint reminder now points straight at the Hint button.

Also easier to read at a glance: molds in the Setting Bed now show their tile's color more clearly, so you can tell which piece each hollow is waiting for.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-13

No release notes.

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