# The Illuminated Word — Reveal great art, word by word

> Reveal great art, word by word (iPhone/iPad app by Hogan Consulting LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-illuminated-word/id6782369654 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Hogan Consulting LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1889524196)
- Category: Games, Education, Word
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.6 · 181 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2026-07-28
- Data updated: 2026-08-12
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-illuminated-word/id6782369654/reviews.md

## What is The Illuminated Word?

Find the words. Watch a masterpiece appear.

The Illuminated Word is a word game with a soul. Each round gives you the letters of a single word — GARDENS, TREASURE, HARPIST — and every word you find reveals another piece of a hidden painting. Keep going and a genuine masterwork emerges: a Van Gogh wheat field, a Monet garden, a Vermeer portrait, a Thomas Moran canyon.

Every painting is real, drawn from the open-access collections of three of the world's great museums — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. More than 700 hand-curated works ship with the app, each with its title, artist, date, and a direct connection to the museum that houses it.

YOUR PERSONAL COLLECTION BOOK
Every painting you reveal can be saved into your own leather-bound collection book — gold-edged pages, an Ex Libris plate with your name on it, and a page for every treasure you earn. Your collection is backed up automatically to your own private iCloud, so it survives new phones, lost phones, and re-installs. It is yours.

LEARN WITHOUT TRYING
Curious about a painting? One tap shows the artist, date, and medium — and a "Learn more" link opens the museum's own page. Stumped by a word you missed? Tap it for the dictionary definition. The learning in this app is never a lesson; it simply happens while you play.

BUILT FOR EVERYONE
• 750 hand-picked source words — warm, familiar vocabulary, never obscure tournament jargon
• A dictionary of over 170,000 accepted words for validation
• No repeats: every painting and every word appears once before any comes around again
• Child-safe by design: every painting personally reviewed; museum links protected by a parental gate; word definitions stay on-device
• Works completely offline — every painting and word ships inside the app

WHY THIS APP COSTS A LITTLE — AND WHY THAT'S GOOD
Hogan Consulting LLC does not believe in in-app advertisements or in the selling of any user information. Most "free" games earn their money from your attention and your data. We would rather charge a small, honest, one-time price — and in exchange, the app is simply yours. No ads. No subscriptions. No tracking. No accounts to create. Nothing sold to anyone, ever. One small purchase, a lifetime of paintings.

A NOTE ON THE NAME
Illuminated manuscripts were medieval books where words and art shared the same page. That is exactly what this game does — and exactly what it leaves you with: a book of your own, illuminated one word at a time.

Download The Illuminated Word — and start your collection.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.0.5 — 2026-08-08

Added inshore purchase of non-consumable. Previous attempts to add this had failed.

### 1.0.4 — 2026-07-30

Settings changed to allow in app purchase of the full gallery of pictures

### 1.0.3 — 2026-07-29

Allows for purchase of the entire works of art

### 1.0.2 — 2026-07-29

Enable in app purchase of the additional works of art and word games.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-07-28

In-app purchase now available to unlock the full gallery of 741 masterpieces.

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