Comparison

QuickMuseum vs Idese

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

Head to head
About

QuickMuseum

Explore Europe's top art museums with engaging audio tours, interactive quizzes, and personalized itineraries. Discover masterpieces and their stories offline, guided by beautifully designed maps. Save battery and data by downloading content beforehand.

Highlights
  • Curated European museum tours
  • Customizable thematic tours
  • Interactive quiz and profile tours
  • Offline audio guides
  • Detailed museum maps
  • Low battery consumption
Features
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QuickMuseum is the app that guides you through some of the most important European art museums in a brand new and engaging way, thanks to customizable tours, games and fascinating stories told in a very straightforward way. HOW QUICK-MUSEUM WORKS Launching the app, first choose a city and a museum, then simply start your own visit, selecting one of the solutions QuickMuseum suggests you. You'll be able to choose a timed tour that best fits with your needs, or a custom tour, by choosing what themes interest you the most (contemporary art, mith, impressionism, etc..), or you can choose to play with the works of art thanks to our quiz tour or profile tour, which creates a tour along the museum, tailored on your tastes. Now the true visit may start! Guided by the map you'll be able to easily walk throughout rooms and corridors, admire masterpieces and listen to their stories thanks to the original audioguides that QuickMuseum offers you. Those audioguides, read by professional actors, tell you stories, mysteries and peculiarities hidden behind every work of art, in a straightforward and engaging manner. The scripts of the audioguides have all been realized by art bloggers, experts in communicating contents and ideas plainly, engaging their audience. To save money and spare room on your device's memory, QuickMuseum allows you to download and buy only the audioguides of the museums that you need, which will be stored on your device to let you listen to them off line, without needing an internet connection. If you don't want to use your data, simply download the audioguides when you're on wifi, then listen to them inside the museum. Key features - Europe most important museums finally in the same app; - available in the app audioguides in English and Italian and custom tours for Louvre and Orsay museum in Paris and Vatican museum and Borghese Gallery in Rome, National Gallery and Tate Modern for London and Prado and Reina Sofìa for Madrid; - audioguides realized by art bloggers and read by professional actors; - timed tours of each museum, to avoid missing the main masterpieces; - custom tours, to focus on your favorite themes; - quiz tours, to challenge your knowledge; - profile tours, to create, masterpiece after masterpiece, a truly personalized tour, based on questions that will define the visitor's personal profile; - beautifully designed maps that will help you orienting in even the most maze-like museum (ps: in our opinion it surely is the Louvre); - search your favorite masterpieces or artists and find them on the maps; - get brief fundamental textual info on artist and artistic styles or currents. - very low battery consumption. NOTE - ON MUSEUM COLLECTIONS QuickMuseum is constantly updating the list of works of art and the team strives to always mark their exact location within the museum. Often though museums refurbish their interior, lend works of art to other galleries or organizations, or change their location; this might result in our map not being entirely up to date with the exact layout of each collection or that some work of art commented in the app might be temporarily missing from the museum's display. Feel free to get in touch in case there was something wrong in our maps! NOTE - ON MUSEUMS Only the most important art museums in Paris, Rome, London and Madrid are included in the app at the moment PLUS the Glauco Lombardi museum (Parma), the Brozzi museum (Traversetolo, Parma), all the museums within the Bedonia Seminary, near Parma, Italy, the medieval village of Vigoleno (Piacenza) and 2 archaeological museums near Piacenza, Italy the "Museo Archeologico della media Val Trebbia" and the Archaeological Park in Travo and Val Tidone the "Museo Archeologico della Val Tidone" in Pianello Val Tidone. NOTE - ON LANGUAGES Only English and Italian language are supported at the moment, but new languages will be added soon.

About

Idese

Features
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Idese è un progetto realizzato dal Segretariato regionale del Ministero della cultura per la Sardegna con il contributo della Fondazione di Sardegna, rivolto a tutti gli amanti del patrimonio archeologico, architettonico, storico artistico, naturalistico ed etnoantropologico della Sardegna. Il nome scelto evoca (v)ides, in uso nella lingua sardo logudorese per dire “vedi” “ammira”. Idese è una guida online gratuita e senza necessità di registrazione, in grado di condurti alla scoperta dei beni culturali, tramite la funzione di navigazione “portami”. Grazie alla geolocalizzazione istantanea, Idese segnala i luoghi vicini a te e ti consente di effettuare ricerche più mirate attraverso l’interrogazione della mappa interattiva sulla quale sono posizionati punti di interesse corrispondenti a beni culturali, ciascuno corredato di breve scheda descrittiva, galleria fotografica, informazioni pratiche e di contatto. Potrai creare e modificare in qualsiasi momento il tuo itinerario, in base alle tue esigenze e alle tue necessità per godere di un’esperienza autentica. Con Idese sei protagonista e puoi partecipare alla promozione del patrimonio caricando foto, suggerendo aggiornamenti, indicando beni ancora non mappati, e condividendo le ricerche e i siti visitati. Idese infatti è una piattaforma digitale aperta e in costante aggiornamento. L’obiettivo del Segretariato è quello di offrire un’infrastruttura digitale gratuita con un’interfaccia semplice e intuitiva, alla portata di tutti e che tutti sentano come propria.

Screenshots

QuickMuseum4 screens
Idese4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Idese at none against QuickMuseum's 10. QuickMuseum's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. QuickMuseum sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Idese asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

QuickMuseum ships an update every 3 weeks, Idese every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and March 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
QuickMuseum versus Idese: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuickMuseumIdese
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size156 MB10 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperARTernative srlAltrama Italia SRL

In-app purchases

10 purchases

QuickMuseum

One-time10
  • Audioguides Paris' museums ENGFree
  • Audioguides Rome's museums ENGFree
  • Audioguides Vatican Museums ENFree
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  • Audioguides Louvre museums ENGFree
  • Audioguides Tate Modern ENGFree
  • Audioguides Reina Sofia ENGFree
  • Audioguides Madrid museums ENGFree
  • Audioguides Bedonia Sem. ENFree
  • Audioguide Glauco Lombardi ENGFree
  • Audioguide Glauco Lombardi ITFree
None

Idese

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is QuickMuseum free?
QuickMuseum is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Idese free?
Idese is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do QuickMuseum or Idese have ads?
Neither QuickMuseum nor Idese shows ads.
Which is updated more often, QuickMuseum or Idese?
QuickMuseum ships an update every 3 weeks, and Idese every 2 months. Most recently, QuickMuseum was updated on June 1, 2026 and Idese on March 11, 2026.

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