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Imago v1.3.0 by Sevy
Last Release: Oct 22, 2026
Downloads: 8

Browse thousands of PS Vita custom themes from psvt.ovh, tap one, and it's installed in the background while you keep scrolling. Imago is a fast, modern take on Red Squirrel's Custom Themes Manager: a fresh coat of paint, a much lighter network footprint, and a lot of care around the system theme database.
Name Version Released Hits DL Link QR
imago-v1.3.0.vpk v1.3.0 10/22/26 8 Download QR
## โœจ What's new

### ๐Ÿซง Restyle your apps

A new **Apps** tab, between Assets and Settings, changes any app's **bubble icon**, **LiveArea background** and **start gate**, for games and homebrew alike.

- Pick a picture from your memory card, frame it in the editor with a live preview (bubbles among your other bubbles, backgrounds as the real LiveArea), and press โœ•. Imago scales it to the exact size the app uses and converts it to the 256-colour format the system expects.
- **Seamless start gate:** cut the gate from the same picture as the background, so the two line up.
- **Your originals are safe.** Before an app's first change, Imago backs up its artwork to `ux0:data/Imago/apps/`. *Restore the original look* puts it back, for one app or for every app from Settings.
- **After an app update**, a customised app shows *needs reapplying*. One press puts your look back, and the older originals are kept.
- LiveArea changes show straight away. A new bubble icon shows after a restart, which Imago offers.

### ๐ŸŒ Artwork from the web

From any part of an app, choose **Search online**. The search starts with the app's name (โ–ณ changes it), and each site has its own tab:

| Site | What it has | Key |
|---|---|---|
| VitaDB | Homebrew icons and screenshots, matched by title ID | None |
| PlayStation Store | Official icons of retail games | None |
| SteamGridDB | Icons, square grids, wide banners | Free |
| IGDB | Covers, artworks, screenshots | Free (Twitch) |
| TheGamesDB | Box art, fanart, banners | Free |
| RAWG | Backgrounds and screenshots | Free |

Add keys in **Settings โ€บ Apps: artwork sources**: type them, or **scan a QR code** with the camera (โ–ก switches to the front camera). Each site has a **Test the connection** button and explains where to get a key. One QR code can set up several sites at once; the [README](https://github.com/SevyW/imago#-online-artwork) shows how, and recommends a QR maker that never sends your key anywhere. Keys stay on your memory card and never appear in the log.

> **Help wanted:** VitaDB, the PlayStation Store and SteamGridDB are tested on a real PS Vita. **IGDB, TheGamesDB and RAWG haven't been tried with real keys yet.** If you use one, please [let us know](https://github.com/SevyW/imago/issues) whether it worked.

### ๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ Clearer uninstalls

Uninstalling a theme now tells you where it's in use before anything is deleted:

- the home-screen pages showing its wallpapers (it's your current theme);
- its pictures in Photos (from *Theme wallpapers in Photos*), and any page that uses one of them as its wallpaper.

If Imago added some of its pictures to Photos, you then choose whether to keep them or delete them too.

## ๐Ÿ”ง Fixed

These affected 1.2.0 on real consoles:

- **Theme names in the Library** showed only their first letter on consoles where the system keeps theme names as UTF-16 text. Imago now reads both formats.
- **Theme wallpapers in Photos:**
- Pictures were named after their first letter (`M.png`). They're now named in full, like *My theme ยท page 6*.
- *Turn off and delete them from Photos* deleted nothing, then forgot the pictures. It now deletes them, removes the empty folders left behind, and keeps track of any picture it can't delete.
- **Screenshots stopped working** after Imago added pictures to Photos, until Imago was closed.
- **Your pictures** didn't show up in the Pictures shelf or the picture browser for about half a minute after a screenshot was taken or deleted. They're now found straight away, and grouped as *Photos*, *Screenshots* and *Camera* instead of by the Vita's internal folder codes.

> **If you used *Turn off and delete* in 1.2.0:** those pictures (named with one letter, like `M.png` or `P_1.png`) are still in your Photos app, and Imago no longer knows about them. Delete them in the Photos app if you don't want them.

## ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Also

- The Settings list has new rows for the Apps tab: show system apps, put custom looks back, restore every original look, and artwork sources.
- *Settings โ€บ About* mentions the Apps tab.

## ๐Ÿ“ฆ Updating

Install `imago-v1.3.0.vpk` over the previous version with VitaShell. Your settings, backups and themes are kept. *Settings โ€บ About* should show **1.3.0**.

The Apps tab writes the system's artwork cache (`ur0:appmeta`), so it needs **unsafe homebrew** enabled, like installing themes does.

Something wrong? **Settings โ€บ Report a problem** shows how to send the log. Then [open an issue](https://github.com/SevyW/imago/issues/new?template=bug_report.yml). Recovery steps are in the [1.0.0 notes](https://github.com/SevyW/imago/releases/tag/v1.0.0); to undo the Apps tab, use *Settings โ€บ Apps: restore every original look*.

## ๐Ÿ”’ Checksums

| File | Size | MD5 |
|---|---|---|
| `imago-v1.3.0.vpk` | 3.6 MB | `2352d6bdfc9a296ae4af911e3b026650` |

```
SHA-256 73167cc9cc1837181d0e586225d65305a5f49d29f4dede2dac2ba78a02fc0bc5
```
Name Version Released Hits DL Link QR