Second Canvas Mauritshuis vs Brain Bricks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
Brain Bricks
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Brain Bricks is an AI-powered learning platform that transforms any content into personalised, adaptive quizzes. Whether you're studying for exams, preparing for interviews, or learning new skills, Brain Bricks makes your knowledge permanent. Content to Knowledge Build your personal knowledge base from any source - articles, papers, websites, or your own notes. Simply upload content and our AI breaks it down into clear, digestible knowledge blocks. Active Learning Question Engine Experience diverse question types at varying difficulty levels, designed to strengthen your understanding through active recall. By retrieving information rather than passively reviewing it, you'll build intuitive understanding that lasts. Adaptive Quiz Experience Get the right questions at the right time with our intelligent system that maintains optimal challenge levels. Brain Bricks tracks your performance, adjusts difficulty, and reminds you when to review specific topics using proven spaced repetition techniques. Learn Anywhere, Anytime Study seamlessly across all your devices with a personalized experience that evolves with you, creating a clear path to mastery of any subject.
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The clearest difference is update cadence: Brain Bricks at every 5 weeks against Second Canvas Mauritshuis's every 9 months. Second Canvas Mauritshuis's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 14.0.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Second Canvas Mauritshuis ships an update every 9 months, Brain Bricks every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Second Canvas Mauritshuis | Brain Bricks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 14.0.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mauritshuis | Brain Bricks PSA |
In-app purchases
Second Canvas Mauritshuis
No in-app purchases
Brain Bricks
No in-app purchases
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