Designer & product engineer · 2026
Mica Studio
Quiet by design. Premium wallpapers and a wallpaper maker in the browser.
A wallpaper gallery and editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Every wallpaper can be previewed on a realistic device, blurred and downloaded in HD, and the Studio lets anyone generate their own with text, calendars, to-do lists and filters.
What it does
- 158 curated wallpapers across 25 collections for iPhone, iPad and Mac
- Realistic iPhone preview: lock and home screens, swipe to unlock, Dynamic Island, widgets, Control Center and icon styles
- iPad and Mac previews with full-screen mode and keyboard shortcuts
- HD and standard downloads, with optional blur baked into the full-resolution image
- Studio editor with 22 generative styles, palettes, eyedropper and automatic palette extraction
- Text layers with 34 lazily loaded fonts, calendar and to-do overlays, light and texture filters
- Photo upload with background removal, undo and redo, local saves and PNG or JPG export
- Shareable editor state encoded in the URL
How it works
- 01
Browse
The catalogue is static typed data, so pages are instant and every wallpaper has its own SEO page.
- 02
Preview
Device frames render the wallpaper under real UI chrome, so you judge it the way you will see it.
- 03
Download
Blur is rendered on a canvas at full resolution before saving, with a direct-link fallback.
- 04
Create
The Studio composes generators, overlays and filters on a canvas and exports at the target device size.
Architecture
TanStack Start and Router on Vite, React 19, Tailwind v4 and Radix primitives.
Canvas generators, overlays and filters; client-side export; fonts loaded only when the picker opens.
A typed wallpaper catalogue with platform, resolution, palette and size metadata, and a generated sitemap.
Playwright captures product footage, Pillow composes graphics, NumPy synthesises audio and FFmpeg renders the video.
Testing & evaluation
- A Playwright smoke checker drives the Studio: generators, text, fonts, calendar, to-dos, previews, filters and sharing
Stack
Honest limits
Android previews and desktop resolution bundles are on the roadmap.