October 21, 2026

Muse Avatar App Explained: Add AllTheMuse to Your Home Screen

Search for a Muse avatar app and you will mostly find news about other companies and apps that are not this one. So here is the honest answer, up front: AllTheMuse has no native app in the App Store or Google Play. What it has is something that works much the same way for collecting — an installable web app you add straight from your browser to your home screen, with its own icon, opening full-screen with your Muse avatars one tap away. This page explains what that means, how to add it on Android and on iPhone, and why the install invitation appears when it does.

The Short Answer: No Store App, a Real Web App

If an app with a similar name turns up in a store search, it is not AllTheMuse — do not download something else expecting your collection to be inside it. AllTheMuse lives at allthemuse.com, and the site itself is built to be installed: your browser can pin it to your home screen, where it gets the AllTheMuse icon and opens in standalone mode, without the browser bars around it.

Nothing about collecting changes in the installed version, because it is the same site, not a smaller copy of it. The gallery, the muse avatars hub, the match quiz and every collection room are all there, and you sign in with the same account. The difference is purely how you arrive: one tap on a home-screen icon instead of typing an address.

What You Are Actually Installing

The installed app is defined by the site's web app manifest, which you can read right on the live site: the full name is “AllTheMuse — Custom Muse Avatars,” the short name is AllTheMuse, the display is standalone, and it starts at the homepage. The icon is a real app icon, supplied in 192- and 512-pixel sizes, with a maskable version for phones that shape their icons.

A small service worker does the behind-the-scenes work, and the site is plain about what it does: it exists to make the site installable and to speed up repeat loads of static content only. It caches site artwork and design files, and it never intercepts pages or the live data behind them — those always come straight from the network. So the Muses, prices and drops you see in the installed app are always the current ones, never a saved snapshot from your last visit.

How to Add It on Android

On Android, open allthemuse.com in Chrome. The site has its own quiet install invitation — a banner that says “Add AllTheMuse to your home screen” — but it deliberately does not nag: it shows only after your second visit, or right after your first unlock, whichever comes first. Tap its “Add to Home Screen” button and Chrome opens the native install dialog; confirm, and the icon lands on your home screen.

If the banner is not showing, the browser menu does the same job at any time:

• Open allthemuse.com in Chrome on your phone
• Tap the three-dot menu in the top corner
• Tap “Install app” or “Add to Home screen” (the wording varies by Chrome version)
• Confirm — the AllTheMuse icon appears on your home screen and opens the site full-screen

How to Add It on iPhone

On iPhone the route runs through Safari, because iOS gives Safari no automatic install prompt — and other iOS browsers cannot install web apps at all. The site's own banner knows this: on iPhone it does not fake a dialog, its button simply reveals the two manual steps. They take about ten seconds:

• Open allthemuse.com in Safari
• Tap the Share button in Safari's toolbar
• Scroll down and tap “Add to Home Screen”
• Tap Add — the AllTheMuse icon appears on your home screen

Why the Banner Might Not Appear — and Starting From the Icon

If you have not seen the install invitation, there is usually a simple reason. It stays silent on a first visit, because the site waits until a second visit or a first unlock. It stays silent if you already installed the app, which it can tell because the app is running in standalone mode. And if you tapped the invitation away, it will not ask again for 30 days — the browser-menu and Share routes above still work in the meantime, on both platforms.

Once the icon is there, collecting starts the same way it does on the web. The catalog behind it holds 1,184 Muses across 78 collections: the Free Muses room alone holds 269 Muses priced at 0 coins, free to collect outright, and a new account starts with 150 Muse Coins at signup — enough for any Common at 50, a Legendary at 150, or a Mythic at 200 on the standard ladder. The full walkthrough of a first day is in our beginner's guide and in how to get a Muse avatar.