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Dev tools · December 22, 2025

Tessera Designer

Hey, A few weeks ago I randomly decided to build a seamless pattern engine for Swift/SwiftUI projects. I called it Tessera (GitHub link). It’s an open-source framework that lets you generate endlessly repeatable, seam-free patterns from pretty much anything you can build in code: shapes, SF Symbols, emojis, text, custom icons, etc. While working on it, I also built a demo app so developers could see how to use the framework. However, that demo turned out to be so much fun to play with that I decided to turn it into a full app. ## Introducing Tessera Designer Tessera Designer is a Mac…

Tessera Designer launched on December 22, 2025 with 93 votes, #327 of 11,628 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

What it does

Create seamless tiles and production-ready pattern assets in minutes: pick from a large library of shapes, text, symbols, and more, customize everything to your liking, and let Tessera Designer intelligently lay it out on the canvas. Finally, export clean, seamlessly repeatable patterns that are genuinely fun (and easy) to make.

Download Tessera: Design Studio by Dennis Mueller on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Tessera: Design Studio.

Graphics & Design Developer Dennis Mueller Language EN + 1 More Size 79.8 MB iPad, Mac Create infinite patterns and mosaics! Use them as backgrounds, wallpapers or for web, print and postcards. Tessera turns shapes, images, text, and symbols into seamlessly repeating patterns of any kind. Built for hobbyists, professionals and everyone who enjoys playing around with an pattern creation tool! • Import an image and fill its shape with symbols to create a unique and highly customizable mosaic pattern. • Place a photo of yourself onto the canvas and fill the space around it with icons, text or whatever your like • Design a wallpaper full of interesting geometric shapes. • Create a symmetric…from apps.apple.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey, A few weeks ago I randomly decided to build a seamless pattern engine for Swift/SwiftUI projects. I called it Tessera (GitHub link). It’s an open-source framework that lets you generate endlessly repeatable, seam-free patterns from pretty much anything you can build in code: shapes, SF Symbols, emojis…

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