diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/DashboardViewCard.tsx b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/DashboardViewCard.tsx
index 221989cc..a3b39b2c 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/DashboardViewCard.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/cards/DashboardViewCard.tsx
@@ -645,16 +645,6 @@ const DashboardViewCard: React.FC<Props> = ({
   const dockActive = !!dockRect && !dragging && !localResize && !isTiled && !isMinimized;
   const tiledSize = useTiledCard({ cardId: cardKey, zone: tileZone, active: !isMinimized, originX: displayX, originY: displayY, getCamera: getCanvasState });
 
-  // Same identity math as the dock and Applications window, shrunk to chrome size.
-  const appHue = ((): number => {
-    let h = 0;
-    const name = output.name || '?';
-    for (let i = 0; i < name.length; i++) h = (h * 31 + name.charCodeAt(i)) >>> 0;
-    return h % 360;
-  })();
-  const p_glyph = (output.icon || '').trim();
-  const appGlyph = p_glyph && p_glyph.length <= 3 ? p_glyph : (output.name || '?').trim().charAt(0).toUpperCase();
-
   // The old 8-icon header cluster, demoted behind one kebab: view switcher, new window, toolbar
   // collapse, then the same rows the card's right-click menu carries.
   const headerKebabRows = (): CardMenuRow[] => ([
@@ -817,29 +807,6 @@ const DashboardViewCard: React.FC<Props> = ({
         <Box onPointerDown={(e) => e.stopPropagation()} sx={{ display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center', flexShrink: 0, mr: 0.25 }}>
           <WindowControls onClose={() => handleRemove()} onMinimize={onMinimize} onTile={onTile} tiled={!!tileZone} />
         </Box>
-        {/* Centered identity: the app's own monogram tile, no name (bare-chrome grammar shared with Settings/Marketplace; the tile matches the dock and Applications window). */}
-        <Box sx={{ position: 'absolute', left: '50%', transform: 'translateX(-50%)', display: 'flex', alignItems: 'center', gap: 0.5, pointerEvents: 'none' }} title={output.name}>
-          <Box
-            sx={{
-              width: 17,
-              height: 17,
-              borderRadius: '5px',
-              display: 'flex',
-              alignItems: 'center',
-              justifyContent: 'center',
-              fontSize: '0.5625rem',
-              fontWeight: 700,
-              color: 'rgba(255,255,255,0.94)',
-              background: `linear-gradient(160deg, hsl(${appHue}, 42%, 52%), hsl(${(appHue + 24) % 360}, 48%, 34%))`,
-              boxShadow: 'inset 0 0 0 1px rgba(255,255,255,0.14)',
-            }}
-          >
-            {appGlyph}
-          </Box>
-          {instance > 1 && (
-            <Typography sx={{ fontSize: '0.6875rem', fontWeight: 600, color: c.text.ghost }}>#{instance}</Typography>
-          )}
-        </Box>
         <Box sx={{ flex: 1 }} />
 
         {showControls && (
diff --git a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/desktop/DockTileIcon.tsx b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/desktop/DockTileIcon.tsx
index c1453376..0bf35eff 100644
--- a/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/desktop/DockTileIcon.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/app/pages/Dashboard/desktop/DockTileIcon.tsx
@@ -2,11 +2,21 @@ import React, { useState } from 'react';
 import Box from '@mui/material/Box';
 import type { DockEntry } from './dockEntries';
 
-/** A tile shows its site favicon OR the generic glyph, never the glyph peeking out from behind the favicon. */
+/** A tile shows its real image (site favicon, app thumbnail) OR the generic SVG glyph, never
+ * letters and never the glyph peeking out from behind an image. */
 export function DockTileIcon({ entry }: { entry: DockEntry }): React.ReactElement {
-  const [faviconFailed, setFaviconFailed] = useState(false);
-  if (!entry.faviconUrl || faviconFailed) return <>{entry.icon}</>;
-  return (
-    <Box component="img" src={entry.faviconUrl} alt="" onError={() => setFaviconFailed(true)} sx={{ borderRadius: '6px' }} />
-  );
+  const [imageFailed, setImageFailed] = useState(false);
+  if (entry.faviconUrl && !imageFailed) {
+    return (
+      <Box component="img" src={entry.faviconUrl} alt="" onError={() => setImageFailed(true)} sx={{ borderRadius: '6px' }} />
+    );
+  }
+  // An app's own screenshot fills the whole tile: the most personalized mark it can carry.
+  if (entry.kind === 'view' && entry.thumbnail && !imageFailed) {
+    return (
+      <Box component="img" src={entry.thumbnail} alt="" onError={() => setImageFailed(true)}
+        sx={{ position: 'absolute', inset: 0, width: '100%', height: '100%', objectFit: 'cover' }} />
+    );
+  }
+  return <>{entry.icon}</>;
 }