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Muntin

A wall of your work, on the screen already in the room. This page is the product's site, arranged as its own dashboard; with JavaScript off it reads top to bottom like any other page.

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v0.8 beta Runs offline

Your work, on the screen already in the room.

Point Muntin at a folder. Any screen you can plug a small computer into becomes a wall of your work that anyone can walk up to and browse. A muntin is the bar that divides a window into panes. This one divides a wall.

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About

Some work is easier to show than to describe.

Muntin is for the body of work that lives in a folder nobody opens: the prints, the frames, the recordings, the drawings from the year you were busy.

Every other answer to this is a website, and a website is something a visitor has to decide to visit. A screen on the wall is already on. The work is already there when somebody walks in, and the only thing they have to decide is whether to pick up the remote.

That is also why this site is arranged as a dashboard. If the product's whole argument is that a wall of tiles is a good way to meet a body of work, the site had better be willing to be one.

The room

Anything with an HDMI socket.

Muntin is a small program that draws a full-screen page. What it draws on is up to you, and we have deliberately not built a box to sell you.

  • A studio panel The one you already turn off at six most common
  • A gallery monitor Portrait works; rotate it and Muntin follows supported
  • A lobby screen Locks to one collection and stays there kiosk mode
  • A laptop on a shelf Honestly fine, and how most people start fine

Driven with the arrow keys, which is what every cheap remote sends anyway.

For studios

People with more work than website.

Photographers, printmakers, furniture makers, a violin shop, two architecture practices and one very organised potter.

The pattern is the same every time: years of finished work, a website showing eleven pieces of it, and a screen in the room that shows a screensaver. Muntin is the smallest thing that fixes the third one.

It is not a portfolio builder, it will not sell anything for you, and it has no opinion about your website. It shows what is in the folder.

Features

Four things. That is the product.

Each one does its job and stops. Nothing here has a roadmap to become a platform.

Rows from folders

A folder becomes a row and its name becomes the heading. Reorganise on disk and the wall reorganises.

Drive it from the couch

Four arrows and one confirm key. Anything that sends those works, and everything Muntin draws is reachable with them.

Reads the file, not a database

Titles, dates and dimensions come out of the files themselves. There is nothing to keep in sync.

Off is a feature

A schedule, a dark hour, and no autoplay ever. A wall that moves on its own is a television.

Formats

What it will read.

If a format is not here, Muntin shows the file's name on a plain tile rather than pretending it understood it.

  • Stills jpeg, png, webp, avif, heic, tiff full
  • Raw Reads the embedded preview, never re-develops preview
  • Vector svg, pdf; first page only full
  • Moving mp4, mov; a poster frame until you press Enter full
  • Audio wav, flac, mp3; artwork if the file carries it beta

Sidecar text files are read for titles and notes when they sit beside the work.

Pricing

Two numbers, no call.

The page you are reading is the whole pricing conversation.

One screen

$0

One wall, every feature, forever. This is not a trial and it does not expire.

For rooms

Many screens

$9 / screen / month

Screens that share a folder, a schedule and a kiosk lock, managed from one place.

Beta pricing, honoured for two years after launch.

Docs

Short enough to read standing up.

One binary, one folder, one optional config file. These are the three pages people arrive needing.

Point it at a folder

$ muntin show ~/Work --title "Studio wall"
reading 412 works in 6 collections
wall is up on :7000

Guides

  • Naming a collection How folder names become row headings 3 min
  • Kiosk mode Locking a lobby screen to one collection 4 min
  • Remotes Anything that sends arrow keys and Enter 2 min

Get started

Put something on the wall tonight.

The beta is open. You get the binary, the docs, and a folder watcher that stops surprising you after the first week.

Muntin is a fictional product. This page exists to show a theme.