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Your lock screen, from space.

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, as wallpapers for your iPhone. Browse, preview on your lock screen, save and share.

For iPhone. Free to download, with optional Cosmo Plus.

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Browse

Nebulae ›

A feed of NASA APOD pictures, sorted into categories you can dive into. Preview any picture as a lock-screen wallpaper, then favorite, save or share it.

  • Aurora
  • Milky Way & Nightscapes
  • Eclipses
  • Hubble & Webb
  • Black Holes & Cosmology
  • Comets
  • Mars
  • Jupiter & Saturn
  • Nebulae
  • …and more

Hubble & Webb ›

Spotlight

Daily picks from the cosmos, chosen so there's always something worth setting as your wallpaper.

Know what you're looking at

Real astronomy descriptions with every picture, with on-device translation when you want it in your own language.

Home & lock-screen widget

Keep a piece of the universe on your Home Screen or lock screen.

Credit, always

Every wallpaper shows its attribution. The pictures belong to NASA and their photographers.

Cosmo Plus

Every wallpaper, back to 1995.

Cosmo Papers is free to explore. Cosmo Plus is the optional subscription that unlocks the rest.

  • Search the cosmos in plain words
  • The full archive back to 1995
  • Premium categories
  • HD downloads
  • The home & lock-screen widget

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Pay as you go.

Yearly

Includes a 3-day free trial.

Lifetime

One purchase, yours to keep.

Prices vary by region and are shown in the app before you confirm. Manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings.

All astronomy images and descriptions come from NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day program, and some are copyrighted by their photographers. Cosmo Papers does not sell the images: Cosmo Plus pays for the app's functionality and curation. Cosmo Papers is an independent app and is not endorsed by NASA.

Wallpapers, sent from space.