Artsteps vs Orphea
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Artsteps
Explore immersive virtual reality environments filled with interactive media. Create and share your own virtual spaces, telling personal stories through engaging visuals and sounds.
- Virtual reality world exploration
- Interactive images, videos, 3D objects
- Showcase personal spaces in VR
- Share personal stories
- Immersive audio experiences
Read full descriptionHide full description
Engage with a virtual reality world full of interactive images, videos, 3d objects and sounds. Showcase your space in VR. Experience personal stories and share your stories with everyone.
Orphea
Track Broadway shows you've seen, compare your favorites with friends, and discover new productions. Play daily word and title games related to musicals.
- Track seen shows and rate them
- Compare theater tastes with friends
- Discover upcoming shows
- Get show recommendations
- Play daily lyric and title games
- Earn diary achievements
Read full descriptionHide full description
Orphea is where you keep every Broadway show you've ever seen. Not just a checklist. A keepsake. Log each show with the date, the theater, your seat, who you were with, the cast you saw, your favorite songs and moments, and a photo, and watch your diary grow into something worth looking back on. KEEP EVERY SHOW Log a show as a stage performance, a film, or a cast recording. Add as many experiences as you want for the shows you've seen more than once. Fill in what you remember, even if it's just the year. RATE AND REVIEW Give every show a star rating and write down what you thought, in a review that's yours to revisit. MAKE IT A KEEPSAKE Save photos from the night, keep a private note just for you, and capture the moment that stayed with you. Your seat, your cast, your memory. COMPARE WITH FRIENDS Add your theater friends, see what they're seeing, and compare your Top 5 all-time favorites. PLAY DAILY GAMES Keep a daily streak going with quick Broadway word games and climb the leaderboard. Browse the show library and play for free, no account needed. Sign in with Apple to save your diary, add friends, and sync across your devices.
Screenshots
Verdict
Artsteps and Orphea both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Orphea's written reviews are positive against 24% of Artsteps's. Orphea also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). Artsteps's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Artsteps against 5.0 for Orphea. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 24% of Artsteps's written reviews are positive against 100% of Orphea's.
Artsteps ships an update every 5 months, Orphea every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Artsteps | Orphea |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 24.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dataverse | Emily Yeh |
Customer experience
Artsteps
Orphea
In-app purchases
Artsteps
No in-app purchases
Orphea
No in-app purchases
