# ArtScan: Museum Photos — user reviews

> 92 indexed App Store user reviews of ArtScan by ArtScan AI LLC, rated 4.70/5 from 737 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/artscan-museum-photos/id6746695414/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/artscan-museum-photos/id6746695414.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 626 · 4★ 56 · 3★ 14 · 2★ 13 · 1★ 28

## Newest reviews (10 of 92)

### 3/5 — Not as advertised

*2026-08-09, version 1.0.40*

I need a tool to organize all my art photos and this will get me there but it’s going to be a lot of work. 

First off, if you allow it to look through your photos and upload, it will think all sorts of photos are art that aren’t. And you have to swipe left right to confirm. With that, I figured it would be easier to just self select the photos so I uploaded a few hundred and it’s still analyzing them a week later to try and figure out what they are. 

Second, despite the fact that the photos have location tags, it gets the location wrong A LOT. Upload 20 photos a museum from the same day and it’ll say at least 2-3 of them are in some museum on the other side of the world from the one you were in. 

Finally, it’s gets the identification wrong enough times that it’s noticeable. 

Overall, after I spend a few hours messing with it, it’ll be fine but it’s far from the seamless experience I was sold on.

### 4/5 — Loving this app

*2026-08-01, version 1.0.40*

This app is working really well in Australian museums and art galleries.  Will also extract info from scene shots of art works and text. Would be great to separate name into first and family name to aid sorting.

### 2/5 — Expensive inapp purchase - not transparent

*2026-07-11, version 1.0.38*

Should be more transparent in pricing - high lifetime and annual cost with insufficient trial. Should try tiered, ad based or freemium.

### 3/5 — Too many photos?

*2026-07-07, version 1.0.38*

I’m interested in my art photos but more as a way to catalog numerous art shows by others in my home town of Auroville India. They have a group of studios that will have many shows annually and they aren’t being recorded properly. And I feel the need to archive and document the growth and evolution in this fairly unique culture. I was wondering if this would be a system that could be used, even though they are not “known artists”. I like the fact that it could be phone based. I’ve looked at expensive art dealer software that is for handling art seen as keeping track of inventory and accounting purposes. This seems better. 

Ideas?

### 2/5 — Laggy with large libraries

*2026-06-30, version 1.0.38*

Unfortunately with a large library (>1000 scans) the app is almost unusable, it takes 10 seconds to open up any of the scanned artwork from the library. Otherwise a cool app but not worth the purchase until it is rectified.

### 2/5 — Not there yet

*2026-06-27, version 1.0.38*

I have wanted this app to exist for so long, and it almost works— but, the AI component is a disaster. I take thousands of photos of exhibitions I see, at museums and galleries, and uploaded about 100 from various contexts as a trial. The app’s AI misidentified nearly all of them, and the troubling thing is how confidently it misidentifies! It adds all the details of other works by other artists. The option exists to replace it with the info from a photo of the wall label, but it doesn’t replace it altogether, it corrects the basics (artist, title, media) but leave all kinds of other incorrect info intact, leaving you with a jumble of accurate and inaccurate that you’d have to check like a hawk and manually type in corrections. Promising premise— I really, really wanted this— but it simply isn’t useable right now. In fact, if you value attribution at all, it’s downright dangerous. If I could turn off the AI altogether and just use it to catalog my images, I’d be delighted!

### 2/5 — Great potential

*2026-06-18, version 1.0.38*

I think an app like this has great potential, but in its current state is too inaccurate for the price point it’s sold at ($99.99 for permanent access to a niche art scanner fills a bit much even if it worked at 190% accuracy but i digress). 

I scanned several different paintings from a few art museums I’ve been to (Dallas Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, Fort Worth Modern) and it had issues with each. while it seems to be really good at figuring out the artist of a piece, it often hallucinated the title and dates. One piece I uploaded from the DMA, Composition 7–Snow by Raymond Jonson, scanned in with a hallucinated name and incorrect year produced. Another painting from the FW Modern labeled as undated had been assigned a fake date by the scanner.

I ask curious to see if the app improves with time, and may revisit in the future 👍

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work

*2026-06-13, version 1.0.38*

If you live near an art gallery it uploads all your personal photos - rubbish!!

### 5/5 — New participant

*2026-06-11, version 1.0.38*

Only just downloaded. It identified 3 pictures, two obscure, immediately. Absolutely amazing! Thank you.

### 5/5 — Very useful app

*2026-06-09, version 1.0.37*

Excellent

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Requires a Subscription to Use

*2026-08-13, version 1.0.40*

To put it short, this app is an amazing idea and concept ruined by greed the obsession with AI.

All the features that make this idea of having a collection of all the artworks you see great, is locked by a paywall. To upload photos for example, you need to subscribe. You’re literally better off making a spreadsheet of all your photographed artworks than using this app.

Not to mention, the AI marketing this app has? I honestly thought this was just an artwork collection app, but they market this as an AI app as well? Like, really? You cater your audience for artists and yet you market this app as THE VERY controversial thing that many artists have negative feelings about??? Obviously, the core feature of this app is that it will detect what artwork it’s looking at is powered by ai. That’s fine imo, I think it’s cool even that it can do that. But it seems like other features are AI and even some AI generation? For example, I’m pretty sure all the summaries it gives you when you’ve viewed an artwork is generated by AI. Like, why? This is so unnecessary. Why not cite articles, the museum website, books even? That would be such a good learning tool and it would make this app such a more interesting and an academic like app. 

And of course, their subscriptions also give you AI features. The app can scan your entire photo collection on your phone for artworks is one. (Totally not sketchy lol) 
Their FORTY DOLLAR yearly subscription in particular is the one I unknowingly subscribed to after I completed their week trial. Absolutely manipulative. I’m willing to bet most of their subscription sales aren’t even from people genuinely interested in their app, most of it is probably from them charging people who didn’t even realize they were put into a subscription.
I wanna love this app, but yeah, they ruined such a great idea.

### 1/5 — Great concept. Terrible business model

*2026-08-06, version 1.0.40*

There should be a free tier. So people have the chance to use the app but in a more limited way which makes sense. How many museums do you expect a person to visit in a span of 7 days?🤣Forcing people to pay upfront is too much and honestly lazy app development. uninstalling.

### 1/5 — High cost

*2026-07-28, version 1.0.40*

Why does this simple app have a subscription cost as high as a Netflix subscription?

### 1/5 — So far it sucks

*2026-07-14, version 1.0.40*

It looks like I have to go through my phos and tag the art work to add to the app and the app will identify it.  I thought it was going to scan my photos and pull the artworks and identify them. Not even close to useful

### 1/5 — What a letdown

*2026-07-13, version 1.0.38*

User experience is poor and AI ArtScan scanning ability even worse. It would be so much more simple if it was easy to just upload a photo of the art with the tombstone I’ve already taken a photo of. Definitely not worth the amount of money they are asking for.

### 1/5 — 너무 느려요

*2026-06-28*

어플은 괜찮은데 너무너무너무 느려서 속터지고 쓰기 불편해요……개선 부탁드려요. 결제해서 쓰고 있는데 터치 한번 해도 안 먹고 계에에에에에속 눌러야지 한번 클릭돼요. 제발 개선좀 해주세요 제발 좀

### 1/5 — Subscription based app

*2026-06-27, version 1.0.38*

Not worth the cost after the 7 day trial

### 1/5 — Deleted

*2026-06-22, version 1.0.38*

Very disappointed. I used the trial to import 3 pictures; on all 3, the museum was incorrect. In one case, the picture had been in MOMA for  almost 60 years.  The other two had been in their museums for 20 years or so. These were permanent collections, so not loans from the museums the app listed. Titles on two of the three were also incorrect (third was untitled).  I’ve deleted the app, very disappointed.  BTW, it’s not an AI failure. My iPhone photo app identified all three correctly.

### 1/5 — Asks you to immediately pay a subscription

*2026-06-20, version 1.0.38*

Asks you to immediately pay a subscription

### 1/5 — i am not paying $60 per year for this

*2026-06-19, version 1.0.38*

this is like a letterboxd for photos - so why is it paid? it won’t let you add more than 3 photos without asking to pay. yall have to pay yourself which i get but use ads or something. i deleted this right away.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Best art app ever

*2026-07-14, version 1.0.40*

I love having my museum visits organized

### 5/5 — Amazing

*2026-07-14, version 1.0.40*

The answer to my prayers

I photo lots of paintings.  Now I can catalogue and remember the artist

### 5/5 — J’adore

*2026-07-12*

Application très pratique pour les fans d’histoire de l’art !

**Developer response:** Merci beaucoup pour votre avis ! Nous sommes ravis d'apprendre que vous appréciez ArtScan. De nombreuses nouvelles fonctionnalités et améliorations sont en préparation, et nous avons hâte de les partager avec vous !

### 5/5 — Now at least my art photos are organized

*2026-07-09, version 1.0.38*

I, like I’m sure many others, have thousands and thousands of photos stored between my phone and iCloud, and they’re totally unorganized. But now, with this app, at least I can make a small dent in that chaos— this app makes it easy to organize all of the photos I’ve taken of art I’ve liked over the years! It’s pretty seamless. Much smoother than throwing my pics into a reverse image search on Google. I’m not a huge fan of AI, but I think this is a good application— it’s not eroding my creativity, just replacing the drudgery of photo organization.

### 5/5 — A dream come true!

*2026-07-09, version 1.0.38*

I’ve been waiting for this app for years! Finally one spot to find all the art I’ve seen around the world.

### 5/5 — Transformational Idea

*2026-07-09, version 1.0.38*

This app is simply brilliant.

### 5/5 — Génial

*2026-07-03*

Je recommande vivement

**Developer response:** Merci beaucoup pour votre avis ! Nous sommes ravis d'apprendre que vous appréciez ArtScan. De nombreuses nouvelles fonctionnalités et améliorations sont en préparation, et nous avons hâte de les partager avec vous !

### 5/5 — Fun after the museum

*2026-07-03, version 1.0.38*

When you do not have time to analyze or appreciate art in the moment or as long as you would like, this app keeps the learning and appreciation going.

### 5/5 — Very useful

*2026-06-18, version 1.0.38*

As an art history student this app comes in handy so much!

### 5/5 — So useful!

*2026-06-17*

This is very basic but I always wanted to organize my art photos and I love having maps showing what I did. So it’s a great way to have that

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