Step into a museum filled with the world’s greatest cat art. Each item in the museum is a puzzle which reveals a new masterpiece, with room to relax, learn the painting, or push into a harder challenge when the mood is right.
Overview
We like to think of Purrfecto as a virtual museum devoted to the finest cat-inspired art from around the world and across art history. The app features multiple curated collections organized by theme, showcasing works from France, Italy, Japan, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and beyond. Each piece is thoughtfully selected and transformed into a jigsaw-style puzzle. As you play, you’ll unlock art history insights alongside playful, cat-themed commentary on every artwork.
A longer look at the painters and printmakers represented across the gallery.
The free collection acts as the first room: welcoming, varied, and enough to communicate the app’s rhythm before deeper collections open up.
British paintings bring parlors, floral studies, and expressive feline portraits into the mix with artists such as Lous Wain.
Kuniyoshi and company bring graphic rhythm, decorative color, and a slightly more whimsical pulse to the game.
Baroque and Renaissance scenes add theatrical contrast, with many masterpieces to solve from Leonardo Da Vinci to Boldini.
Art History
Purrfecto is not only about solving jigsaw puzzles. The app also includes a short art-history lesson with each painting, teaching you about each masterpiece you discover.
Woman with a Cat reflects Renoir’s fascination with intimacy, warmth, and the quiet pleasures of everyday life. The woman is depicted in a moment of ease, her expression gentle and absorbed, rendered with soft, fluid brushstrokes that favor atmosphere over sharp detail. The cat in her arms deepens the sense of domestic calm, functioning less as a symbol than as a tactile presence — fur, warmth, and weight. Renoir unifies figure and animal through shimmering light and blended color, dissolving firm outlines in favor of harmony. The result is not a formal portrait, but a fleeting impression of closeness, tenderness, and lived comfort.
Théophile Steinlen’s Le Chat Noir poster became a defining image of the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris and a landmark of Art Nouveau advertising. Created to promote the touring cabaret troupe, the rigid, frontal black cat reads instantly from a distance, its bold silhouette designed for the modern street. The red, halo-like backdrop—echoing medieval rose windows—transforms a nightlife mascot into a modern icon. More than an advertisement, the image mythologized bohemian Paris, artistic rebellion, and the theatrical spirit of the Belle Époque.
Cat Commentary
After the art-history notes, a cat (often the cat in the painting) will give its commentary on the painting. Below are a couple example passages from the app.
FAQ
Got a question about the app? Feel free to contact us, but here are some answers to the questions most people ask us first.
No. The app has a variaty of difficulty settings - there's somethign for everyone! From easy 1x8 puzzles to hard 12x4 puzzles, and there's even a "Zen Mode" setting that lets you explore the art at your own oace without worrying about scores.
A free set of puzzles is avaialble to play. Free bonus easter egg puzzles can also be discovered as you explore.
The gallery is meant to keep growing, so the number will change over time but as of now there are 14 free puzzles and 62 additional puzzles can be unlocked (and more to come soon).
The strongest distinction is tone. Purrfecto combines real cat-centered paintings, flexible difficulty, a calm cozy vibe, and both museum notes and cat-voice commentary to keep you both educated and entertained.
Download
Available for free on the iOS App Store!
A Cat Stealing Fish
Giuseppe Recco · 1660 · Baroque
The humans carefully arranged all this seafood… and then foolishly left the room. Naturally I conducted a full inspection. The basket tipped, the fish flew everywhere, and now I stand victorious atop my seafood kingdom. Mwahaha ha ha!
Black Cat and Tomato Plant
Takahashi Hiroaki · 1931 · Japanese woodblock print
There! There you are!!
I see you, bouncy green snack with the noisy legs.
I am very still on the outside and absolutely vibrating on the inside. My tail cannot contain itself.
That grasshopper is my destiny.
Hop again—yes, like that!
Any second now you will be mine!