Comparison

Useeum vs SMK Second Canvas

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Useeum

Explore museums and historical sites with interactive stories and educational games. Discover art, history, science, and nature through engaging audio guides and fun challenges suitable for all ages. Enhance your visit with unique experiences designed for families and schools.

Highlights
  • Interactive museum stories
  • Educational games for all ages
  • Audio guides for indoor and outdoor locations
  • Explore art, history, science, and nature
  • Family-friendly museum experiences
  • Supplement for school curriculums
Features
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Useeum provides a variety of engaging stories, games and other exciting experiences at museums, science centres, nature parks and similar places. Whether you are a tourist or avid visitor of museums, Useeum offers unique museum experiences. Our app offers many different guides and games that will make your museum visit a great experience for both young and old. With the Useeum app you can find outdoor as well as indoor audio guides and games which are both fun and educational for the whole family. MUSEUMS AND EXPERIENCES IN THE APP: Whether you are interested in art, history, science or nature you can find narratives, audio guides or games that are perfect for you. In the Useeum app you will find art museums, historical museum and natural history museums, science centres as well as outdoor experiences in forests and parks. It will be exciting to explore our different games and guides! SOME PLACES YOU CAN VISIT WITH THE APP: The Labour Museum in Oslo The Bornholm Art Museum The Museum of Oslo Christiansborg Palace Danmarks Borgcenter Egeskov Parkmuseerne Fiskeri og Søfartsmuseet Frøslevlejrens Museum H. C. Andersen’s house Hammershus The Karen Blixen Museum Kierkegaard by Nature Stevnsfort Cold War Museum Magasin du Nord Museum Museet for Religiøs Kunst The Narvik War Museum Roskilde Museum Royal College of Nursing Sønderborg Castle The Greenhouses and Botanical Garden Aarhus ARoS Kongernes Jelling The Viking Ship Museum Kronborg Ramsgate EDUCATIONAL GAMES: In the Useeum app you will find games for kids of all ages. The games are designed to be both educational and entertaining. The games can be played with the family during a museum visit but are also ideal for schools or as a supplement for curriculums. These are of some the games you can find in the Useeum app: Nature Quest, The Astral Journey, The Mystery at Hammershus, The Museum Mystery, Mytedetektiverne, Mysteriet om Dannebrog, Mysteriet på Hammershus, Parforcejagt og OppermannMysteriet. In the Museum Mystery you will be helping professor Blom stop Heidenreich from stealing a unique item. The Museum Mystery can be played at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, at Roskilde Museum, in the city of Roskilde, at Egeskov on Funen and at Hammershus on Bornholm. The Museum Mystery has been created in cooperation with OK Monkey. OK Monkey are experts at engaging children. They formerly worked at DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) Ramasjang where they created entertaining TV for children and entire universes for kids like the Ramasjang app, Ramasjang Mysteriet and Ring til Ramasjang. They also write children's books and have written the script for Cirkus Summarum. ENGAGING STORIES: In the app you can experience entertaining and educational stories. Our audio guides are stories that will take you on a journey to the past or portray great personalities like Karen Blixen, H C Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard. Exiting narratives such as Kings in the Tapestries at Christiansborg Palace, The Rise and Fall of Roskilde in Roskilde, The seventies at the Museum of Oslo in Oslo, Danmarks Vildeste Fiskereventyr at Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet in Esbjerg, Danmarks sidste vikingekonge from Historiens Hus in Odense, Danskernes dagligdag i det 20. århundrede at Tidens Samling in Odense, Rundt om Magasin - Købmænd, mode og æggesalat from Magasin Museum in Copenhagen, Slavenes København in Copenhagen, Mysteriet om Elvira Madigan on Tåsinge, Eva’s War in Ramsgate. In the Greenhouses and Botanical Garden’s plant guide you will find comprehensive information about their plants. LOCATIONS: Whether you are in Denmark, England or Norway great experiences are waiting for you. We cover museums in Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense, Roskilde, Esbjerg, Billund, Narvik, Oslo, London, Nordsjælland, Sønderjylland, Syddanmark, Bornholm, Fyn, Jylland, Midtjylland or one of the other places featuring great guides and experiences – download our app for free – Useeum. Check out our guides and games – have fun!

About

SMK Second Canvas

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The Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK) Second Canvas app is your tool for exploring the beautiful SMK art collections in super high resolution, like never before. Discover, interact, learn from stories told by experts or choose your favorite detail and share it with your friends on social media, including the option of hooking it up to your TV screen at home or at school. Created by SMK and Madpixel, SMK Second Canvas allows you to explore highlights from its Danish and Nordic Collection and of its European Collection, with the best quality and resolution. Works you will find on SMK Second Canvas: -A Funeral by Anna Ancher (1859-1935) -Bella and Hanna by C.W. Eckersberg (1783-1853) -Bouquet of Flowers in a Stone Niche by Ambrosius Bosschaerts the Elder (1573-1621) -Christ as the Suffering Redeemer by Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) -In a Roman Osteria by Carl Bloch (1834-1890) -Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor by Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) -Melancholy by Lucas Cranach the Elder ( -1553) -The Artist's Wife by L.A.Ring (1854-1933) -The Ferry Boat to Antwerp by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678) -Whitewashing the Old House L.A.Ring (1854-1933) -Zealand Landscape by Johan Thomas Lundbye (1818-1848) Main features: -Super-zoom to explore the artworks with the best quality and discover hidden details. -X-Ray vision for the Laurits Andersen Ring painting "The Artist's Wife", to reveal his particular painting technique, pentimenti and more. -Discover amazing stories, detail by detail, told by experts: learn about the characters, symbolism, technique, or the artist signature. -Play a cinematic tour through the Gigapixel image to discover the artwork secrets while listening to the audio (for now, this kind of "audiotour" is available for Bouquet of Flowers in a Stone Niche, by Ambrosius Bosschaerts the Elder). -Tell your own stories on social media, selecting the details you want to share in super-high resolution Connect your iPad/iPhone to your TV at home (via AirPlay, cable) or to the projector at school to see the painting in full screen while interacting with your touch device. -Download the details with their stories so they can be accessed even when you’re offline or in airplane mode. -We hope you'll enjoy SMK Second Canvas. Tell us about your experience with the app and help us to improve it: support@secondcanvas.net For more information about SMK Second Canvas, go to www.secondcanvas.net , or to www.smk.dk

Screenshots

Useeum4 screens
SMK Second Canvas4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SMK Second Canvas at none against Useeum's 27. SMK Second Canvas also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). Useeum's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 17 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Useeum sells 27 one-off in-app purchases. SMK Second Canvas asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Useeum ships an update every 3 weeks, SMK Second Canvas every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Useeum versus SMK Second Canvas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUseeumSMK Second Canvas
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (63 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings63 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 17 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size109 MB35 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperUseeumMadpixel (The Mad Pixel Factory)

In-app purchases

27 purchases

Useeum

One-time27
  • I månens bane$2.99
  • Den evige sol$2.99
  • Den hvide kyst$2.99
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  • Kierkegaard by Nature$3.99
  • Kierkegaard by Nature CPH$3.99
  • The Mystery at Hammershus$4.99
  • MuseumMystery$4.99
  • Kampen om Naturen$4.99
  • Andersens København$5.99
  • Lyden af Svendborg$5.99
  • DANNER Podwalk$5.99
  • Grænsevogteren (lyt ude)$5.99
  • Stille tragedie Lyt derhjemme$5.99
  • En stille tragedie$5.99
  • The Mystery at Christiansø$8.99
  • Historian podwalk Christiansø$8.99
  • A historian podwalk at Christiansø$8.99
  • Krigens byer: København$9.99
  • The Slaves of Copenhagen$9.99
  • Ho Chi Minh: The Liberator$11.99
  • Grænsevogteren (lyt hjemmefra)$17.99
  • TAPSY game in Copenhagen$29.99
  • TAPSY game in Bergen$29.99
  • Tapsy in Bergen Jekteviken$29.99
  • Tapsy game in Aarhus$29.99
  • TAPSY game Stockholm Frihamnen$29.99
  • TAPSY in Stockholm Stadsgarden$29.99
None

SMK Second Canvas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Useeum free?
Useeum is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SMK Second Canvas free?
SMK Second Canvas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Useeum or SMK Second Canvas have ads?
Neither Useeum nor SMK Second Canvas shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Useeum or SMK Second Canvas?
Useeum ships an update every 3 weeks, and SMK Second Canvas every 17 months. Most recently, Useeum was updated on September 28, 2026 and SMK Second Canvas on September 12, 2026.

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