Tessera Themes: Widgets, Icons

Tessera turns your home screen into a set: a theme that changes your wallpaper and every widget in one tap, glass icons for your apps, and widgets in mixed shapes.

THEMES IN ONE TAP
Pick one of six themes and tap Apply. Tessera sets its wallpaper on your home and lock screens and redraws every Tessera widget in it. A short checklist then finishes the look: a glass app dock, glass icons, and the starter layout the theme was made with.

GLASS ICONS
• App Grid widgets: your favourite apps as glass icons, in a five-app dock or an eight-app grid. They work on any launcher, including Pixel and Samsung.
• Icon pack: glass icons for 119 popular apps, with a glass frame for the rest. Applies in one tap in Nova, Smart Launcher, Apex and Action Launcher, and from the settings of Lawnchair, Niagara and other launchers that take icon packs.
• The Pixel and Samsung launchers don't take icon packs. There, Tessera shows you how to turn on themed icons so the rest of your icons match.
• Missing an icon? Request it from Settings and the list of apps is written for you.

TESSERA AS YOUR HOME SCREEN
Turn it on in Settings and Tessera becomes your home screen. A theme then changes the widgets, the dock and a glass icon for every app in one tap. Hold a widget to resize it, or drag it. Swipe up for every app, with search and folders. Other apps' widgets work too, and you can switch back at any time.

GLASS FOLDERS
Tessera sorts your apps into Finance, Shopping, Travel, Food, Social and more, and adds each group to your home screen as a glass folder widget. Tap a folder to open its apps over your home screen; tap Edit to change what's in it. Apps you uninstall drop out on their own. Your launcher's own folders stay as they are.

PICK A LAYOUT, DROP IT ON
Choose one of three starter layouts and tap Add to home screen. Your launcher asks you to confirm each widget. If your launcher doesn't let apps add widgets, a short guide shows how to add them by hand.

WIDGETS YOU CAN TOUCH
• Weather card, wide or square: the temperature now, today's high and low, and the next three days. Tap it for the hours ahead.
• Day ring clock: the time, with a ring that fills as the day passes.
• Focus timer, capsule or circle: tap to start a session, watch it count down on the home screen, tap again to stop. Choose 15, 25, 45 or 60 minutes.
• Mood check, square or arch: tap to change how you feel today.
• Liquid battery, capsule or pill: your charge as a level of liquid, with a bolt while charging.
• Music, square or bar: play, pause and skip whatever is playing, if you allow it.
• Quick toggle: flashlight, Do not disturb, or a shortcut to the Wi-Fi panel.
• Scallop launcher: six of your apps in one wavy tile.
• App Grid, dock or grid: five or eight apps as glass icons. Tap one to open it.

SIX LOOKS
Clear Glass, Liquid Glass, Chrome Y2K, Soft Clay, Arcade and Night Signal. Each has its own colours, type and voice. Preview any theme on your layout with its own wallpaper before you apply it.

35 WALLPAPERS THAT MATCH
Glass, liquid, gradient, abstract, AMOLED, pixel and scenic. Preview it with your widgets on top, then set it as your home screen, lock screen or both, and match your widgets to it in the same step.

SHARE YOUR SETUP
Make a 9:16 card of your layout, pack and wallpaper, sized for Stories, and send it to any app.

MADE TO BE READ
A higher-contrast mode darkens the glass and strengthens the text on every widget. Every widget has a spoken description for TalkBack.

WHAT TESSERA DOES NOT DO
No ads. No account. No sign-in. No subscription and nothing to unlock: everything above is in the app you install. No analytics and no tracking. Your moods, focus sessions, chosen apps and settings stay on your phone.

The weather widget needs a connection. To get the forecast, Tessera sends the place you chose, or your approximate location if you allow it, to Open-Meteo, a weather service. Nothing else about you goes with it.

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