Comparison

Second Canvas Mauritshuis 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

Second Canvas Mauritshuis

Explore renowned museum masterpieces in ultra-high resolution, uncovering hidden details and stories from experts. Share your favorite discoveries on social media or download them for offline viewing. Experience a virtual 360 tour of the museum's collection.

Highlights
  • Super-zoom to explore artworks in Gigapixel resolution
  • Infrared vision to reveal underdrawings and pentimenti
  • Expert-told stories and audio tours for each masterpiece
  • Social media sharing of high-resolution details
  • Offline access to downloaded artwork details and stories
  • Virtual 360 Gigapixel tour of the museum
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Second Canvas Mauritshuis is your tool for exploring the beautiful Mauritshuis museum masterpieces in super high resolution, like never before. Discover, interact, learn from stories told by Mauritshuis 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 Mauritshuis and Madpixel, Second Canvas Mauritshuis allows you to explore the 10 masterpieces from the museum’s collection, including the famous 'Girl with a Pearl Earring', and others like 'The Garden of Eden' and 'The Goldfinch', with the best quality and resolution. Works you will find on Second Canvas Mauritshuis: • Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) • The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Jan Brueghel (1568-1625) • The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt (1606-1669) • The Bull by Paulus Potter (1625-1654) • View on Delft by Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) • The Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius (1622-1654) • Ice Scene by Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) • Old Woman and Boy with Candles by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) • As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young by Jan Steen (1625/1626-1679) • Self-Portrait by Rembrandt (1606-1669) Main features: • Super-zoom to explore the artworks with the best quality and discover hidden details. Specially for the Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Garden of Eden, where you will be able to zoom-in beyond the naked eye, up to the brushstroke level, and see the crackle, thanks to their Gigapixel resolution. • Infrared vision for these two paintings, also in Gigapixel resolution, to reveal the drawing under the painting and discover the "pentimenti", even on the tiniest details. • Discover amazing stories on all Mauritshuis masterpieces, detail by detail, told by museum experts: learn about the characters, symbology, technique, or the artist signature. • New Gigapixel AudioTour feature: play a cinematic tour through the Gigapixel image to discover the artwork secrets while listening to the audio. • Tell your own stories on social media, selecting the details you want to share in super-high resolution. • Download the details with their stories so they can be accessed even when you’re offline or in airplane mode. • Added a Virtual Visit 360 Gigapixel of the collection! The Mauritshuis is the first museum in the world to have been fully digitized in gigapixel format. Explore the different rooms and works of art of the Mauritshuis, up to the tiniest detail. • Increased the collection up to 36 masterpieces in super high-resolution, full of stories based on artwork details created by Mauritshuis specialists. We hope you'll enjoy Second Canvas Mauritshuis. Tell us about your experience with the app and help us to improve it: SCMauritshuis@secondcanvas.net For more information about Second Canvas: www.secondcanvas.net www.mauritshuis.com

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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

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SMK Second Canvas4 screens

Verdict

The call

Second Canvas Mauritshuis and SMK Second Canvas are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Second Canvas Mauritshuis ships an update every 9 months, SMK Second Canvas every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Second Canvas Mauritshuis versus SMK Second Canvas: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSecond Canvas MauritshuisSMK Second Canvas
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 months — betterEvery 17 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.010.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB35 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperMauritshuisMadpixel (The Mad Pixel Factory)

In-app purchases

None

Second Canvas Mauritshuis

No in-app purchases

None

SMK Second Canvas

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Second Canvas Mauritshuis free?
Second Canvas Mauritshuis is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SMK Second Canvas free?
SMK Second Canvas is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Second Canvas Mauritshuis or SMK Second Canvas have ads?
Neither Second Canvas Mauritshuis nor SMK Second Canvas shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Second Canvas Mauritshuis or SMK Second Canvas?
Second Canvas Mauritshuis ships an update every 9 months, and SMK Second Canvas every 17 months. Most recently, Second Canvas Mauritshuis was updated on November 2, 2026 and SMK Second Canvas on November 11, 2026.

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