Best Explorer alternatives: apps like Explorer - AMNH NYC

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Updated November 2026
Explorer - AMNH NYC
Explorer - AMNH NYC
American Museum of Natural History

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Top Alternatives to Explorer

Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC#1

Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC by Gonzalo Juarez

The MET Visitor Guide New York
Editor's Choice
📚 Education
4.2😞(1.4K ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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Discover New York City and the Metropolitan Museum of Art with this comprehensive offline visitor guide. Explore city attractions, public transport, and detailed museum information including collections, history, and practical tips for an enriching travel experience.

What We Love

  • 🌟 World-class museum experience
  • 👍 Informative permanent collection details
  • 🌍 Useful city guides and tour information

Room to Improve

  • 🚫 Lacks essential museum navigation tools (maps, floor plans)
  • 💰 Excessive focus on paid tours and upgrades
  • 🤔 Unclear if this is the official Met app
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and technical issues
Connects: Arts+Culture#2

Connects: Arts+Culture by BLOOMBERG CONSULTING LLC

Your Arts+Culture Guide
Strong Contender
📚 Education
4.8😐(7.6K ratings)
Free
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Explore over 1000 cultural institutions with interactive guides, multimedia content, and planning tools. Discover museums, galleries, and gardens worldwide, enriching your visits or providing access from anywhere.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Awesome connection to so many museums!
  • 👍 Excellent guide for one who travels, haunts museum or libraries, has interest in history
  • 👍 Enriches visits to museums and galleries
  • 👍 Great resource to use onsite and at home
  • 👍 Fantastic app full of wonderful information
  • 👍 Lovely app, used to search the Wallace Collection in London

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Some lookups hang
  • 🐛 Frequently needs to reload if you toggle to a different app
  • 🐛 App constantly resets to the home page, forcing you to re-select and reload the museum/gallery
  • 🐛 Chews Through Data
  • 🐛 App works awfully with frequent crashes and some parts of interface not loading correctly
  • 🐛 Cumbersome, very inconvenient to use
  • 🐛 Doesn't work well offline
  • 🐛 Unstable, at times would only open a single random information screen for all icons selected, kept crashing out
  • 🐛 The interface is very confusing
  • 🐛 Non functional, the story panels in the Frick guide don't swipe, can't listen to any other recordings
4.7😞(4.8K ratings)
Free
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Access your digital membership cards and reduce physical clutter. This app provides renewal updates, benefit information, and directions to participating institutions. It also offers direct contact options for staff and integration with digital wallets.

What We Love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Convenient to access membership cards
  • 💡 Useful app for managing memberships

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Issues with adding cards to Apple Wallet
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes or loading problems
  • 🐛 Search function not working as expected
  • 🐛 Incompatibility with newer devices

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