Salon For Apple TV
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Art for your TV, compared

There are a few ways to put art on a television. Here is how Salon compares on what matters when a picture is going to hang on your wall all day.

Salon

$9.99 once

  • 1,100+ paintings, prints, maps and photographs, every one chosen by a person and cut to fit a 16:9 screen in 4K
  • $9.99 once, for everything, with nothing to unlock later
  • Works on any television with an Apple TV plugged in
  • A mat in five colours and three widths, a clock, favourites and a slideshow
  • No account, no adverts, no tracking, and it keeps working offline
  • Every picture checked against Europe's copyright rule as well
  • Your own iCloud photos, in the same frame as the paintings
  • Favourites on every Apple TV on your account, through iCloud
  • Your picture on the Home Screen, in Top Shelf
  • In English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese, with VoiceOver throughout
Download on the App Store

An Apple TV app. On your Apple TV, open the App Store and search for Salon Museum Art. It is listed as Salon: Museum Art Frame.

The alternatives

Samsung's Art Store

$4.99 a month or $49.99 a year

Pros

  • Made for Samsung's Frame TV and its matte screen

Cons

  • The full catalogue is a subscription
  • Only on recent Samsung televisions, so a new TV if you do not have one

Loupe

Free; sells prints

Pros

  • Free

Cons

  • Effectively abandoned
  • Built around selling prints
  • English only

Artcast

Free with adverts, or $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year

Pros

  • A free version

Cons

  • Adverts, unless you subscribe
  • Uploaded by artists rather than chosen picture by picture
  • English only

Art Gallery & Paintings 4K

$4.99 once

Pros

  • A one-time price

Cons

  • A database of museum images rather than a chosen collection
  • English only

TV ArtFrame

$4.99 once

Pros

  • Shows your own iCloud photos too

Cons

  • English only

YouTube art videos

Free with adverts

Pros

  • Free on almost any television

Cons

  • Adverts, unless you pay for YouTube Premium
  • The channel's choice of pictures, in the channel's order
  • Some draw a frame round each picture instead of filling the screen

Apple TV screen saver

Free, built in

Pros

  • Already on every Apple TV

Cons

  • Aerial films and your own photos, but no paintings
  • Changes on its own schedule, not yours