WikiArt vs Learn Art
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WikiArt
Explore a vast collection of over 250,000 artworks from 3,000 artists worldwide, spanning from ancient to contemporary pieces. Access art not publicly displayed for study, inspiration, or enjoyment. The app offers localized content and allows users to contribute to its improvement.
- Browse 250k+ artworks
- Organized by artist, style, genre, period, museum
- Concise artist bios and artwork context
- Localized in 7 languages
- Community contribution for translations and metadata
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Discover the world’s art—anytime, anywhere. WikiArt brings together 250,000+ artworks by 3,000 artists from more than 100 countries, spanning cave paintings to contemporary collections. Many of these works aren’t on public view; WikiArt makes them accessible for study, inspiration, and pure enjoyment. What you can do Browse at scale: Paintings, drawings, and more—organized by artist, style, genre, period, and museum. Learn fast: Concise artist bios, artwork context, dates, and provenance where available. Go global: Interface and content localized in 7 languages, with ongoing community translations. Contribute: Help improve translations and metadata to make art history available to more people.
Learn Art
Explore a vast collection of 140 masterpieces from art history. Test your knowledge with a fun and challenging quiz, and learn to recognize artists and their styles. Unlock new levels as you progress and compete with others on the leaderboard.
- 140 famous artworks database
- Immersive slideshow
- Artist and painting information
- Challenging art quiz
- Progressive learning levels
- Hint system
- Game Center leaderboard integration
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Learn Art is a beautifully designed art quiz that turns the world's greatest paintings into a game. Built and cared for by a single passionate developer, it has been enjoyed by art lovers for over ten years. 510 paintings · 85 painters · 30 art movements · 4 languages. FREE TO START Gallery 1 gives you 140 paintings by all 70 great masters, every game mode, the slideshow and the full info cards. No trial, no countdown. WAYS TO PLAY • Quiz — a painting appears; pick the right painter among four. • Choose the painting — we name the artist, you find the work. • Letter quiz — rebuild the painter's name letter by letter. • Movements quiz — identify the artistic movement behind a work. • Slideshow & info cards — browse the paintings and read about them freely. LEARN AS YOU PLAY A built-in hint system helps when you're stuck — reveal a biography, remove wrong answers, or get a letter — so every round teaches you something. LEARN ART PLUS One purchase unlocks Galleries 2 and 3 and the Plus gallery: 370 more paintings, 15 more masters, Japanese ukiyo-e, Cubism, Fauvism and Naïve Art, and unlimited hints in every gallery. Yours for life, including the art added later. A one-time purchase, not a subscription. FROM GOTHIC ART TO MODERN ART Learn to recognize the great masters across seven centuries — from Gothic art and the Proto-Renaissance through the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism and Expressionism, to Cubism, Fauvism and Japanese Ukiyo-e. NO BANNERS, NO FORCED ADS Learn Art is made to be looked at. There are no banner ads and no full-screen interstitials interrupting your game. GAME CENTER Climb the leaderboard and unlock achievements as you progress. FOUR LANGUAGES Play in English, French, Spanish or Italian — titles and biographies are fully translated. Free to download. Enjoy!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Learn Art at Free against WikiArt's $3.99. Learn Art also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 63%). WikiArt's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On rating, ratings volume, 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
Learn Art is free to download; WikiArt costs $3.99 up front. WikiArt sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Learn Art sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for WikiArt against 4.7 for Learn Art. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.9K and 728 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of WikiArt's written reviews are positive against 82% of Learn Art's.
WikiArt ships an update fortnightly, Learn Art every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WikiArt | Learn Art |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.9K ratings) — better | 4.7 (728 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.1% of reviews | 82.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 728 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 242 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Little Marvel Software Inc. | NORMAND MARTIN |
Customer experience
WikiArt
Learn Art
User reviews
WikiArt
From 1.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Extensive art collection
- 🚀 Easy to navigate
- 💡 Ability to discover new artists
- 🎨 Appreciation of art and culture
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes and stability issues
- 📱 Limited functionality on mobile devices
- 💸 Overpriced for the current state
- 🔍 Difficult to search and find specific content
Learn Art
From 728 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 User-friendly and intuitive interface
- 🎨 Beautiful visual presentation and design
- 🎓 Academic and educational content quality
- 🎮 Engaging flashcard and quiz format
- 🎵 Pleasant music enhances learning experience
Room to improve
- 📱 Text size too small for accessibility
- 💰 Limited free content, requires payment for quizzes
- 🌍 Western art focus only, lacks global perspectives
- 🎨 Limited painting collection (only 140 artworks)
- 🎬 Animation jitter causes discomfort/nausea
Bugs and requests
WikiArt
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login issues and account problems
- Frequent crashes and app not opening
- Compatibility problems with newer iOS versions
- Images failing to load or displaying low quality
Requested features
4 requests- Add landscape mode support
- Implement ability to save/favorite artists and artworks
- Provide more detailed information about artworks and artists
- Improve search functionality and discoverability
Learn Art
Reported bugs
3 issues- Payment processing failure - charged but content not delivered
- Animation jitter/flickering during painting transitions
- Inconsistent access to purchased content
Requested features
6 requests- Larger text size and improved font spacing for accessibility
- Global and non-Western art history content
- Expanded painting collection beyond current 140 artworks
- Display artist paintings during quiz matching sections
- Better organization/categorization of paintings
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- Clearer explanation of coin system and rewards
In-app purchases
WikiArt
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Yearly$14.991 Year
- Support WikiArt$0.99
- Support WikiArt$2.99
- Support WikiArt$6.99
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- Support WikiArt$17.99
- Support WikiArt$49.99
Learn Art
- 200 Coins$0.99
- Learn Art Plus$4.99
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