Da Vinci 500 vs Learn Art
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Da Vinci 500
Explore Leonardo da Vinci's art, science, and life through an interactive overview and quiz. Zoom into artworks for detailed study and test your knowledge to achieve 500 points. Perfect for learning about the Renaissance master.
- Comprehensive overview of da Vinci's work
- Interactive quiz to test knowledge
- Zoomable artwork images
- Biography of Leonardo da Vinci
- Progress tracking to 500 points
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A comprehensive overview and quiz to Leonardo da Vinci's most significant artwork, scientific work and biography. To help you learn this app tests your knowledge along the way and challenges you to reach 500 points. Zoom into images for closer study. Made for the 500 year anniversary of da Vinci's passing in 2019. Only on the App store. Enjoy!
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 Da Vinci 500's $0.99. Learn Art also leads on update cadence (every 3 months vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (729 vs 25). Da Vinci 500's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.6). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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; Da Vinci 500 costs $0.99 up front. Da Vinci 500 sells 5 one-off in-app purchases 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 — 4.6 for Da Vinci 500 against 4.7 for Learn Art. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learn Art has 729 ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Da Vinci 500's written reviews are positive against 82% of Learn Art's.
Da Vinci 500 ships an update every 11 months, Learn Art every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Da Vinci 500 | Learn Art |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (25 ratings) | 4.7 (729 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 82.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 729 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 133 MB | 242 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jacob Levallius | NORMAND MARTIN |
Customer experience
Da Vinci 500
Learn Art
Bugs and requests
Da Vinci 500
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Da Vinci 500
- Start level 2 nowFree
- Unlock$0.99
- Start level 3 now$0.99
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- Start level 4 now$0.99
- Start level 5 now$0.99
Learn Art
- 200 Coins$0.99
- Learn Art Plus$4.99
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