Augmented Berlin vs Gropius Bau
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Augmented Berlin
Explore Berlin's rich history and stories through immersive augmented reality experiences. This app brings the past to life on your tablet or smartphone, allowing you to virtually travel through significant eras like the Weimar Republic and the fall of the Wall.
- Augmented reality historical exploration
- Virtual tours of Berlin's past
- Immersive historical timelines
- Educational content for home and school
- Explore Weimar Republic, WWII, Fall of the Wall
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Discover Berlin's histories and stories at home with augmented reality. AR is an intense and authentic way to travel back into the past, or behind the scenes of today. Use your tablet or smartphone to take a virtual trip through time and immerse yourself in parts of Berlin's history – like the Weimar Republic, the Second World War, the fall of the Wall, and the exciting years after German reunification. Whether at home or at school, AR turns histories and stories into tangible experiences.
Gropius Bau
This AI-powered tool enhances museum visits by translating exhibition texts, providing audio narration, and offering interactive Q&A sessions about artworks. It serves as a digital hub for cultural content, with ongoing development to expand its features and offerings.
- AI-powered text translation
- Exhibition text-to-speech
- Event subtitle activation
- AI Q&A about exhibitions
- Digital hub for cultural content
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Gropius Bau Prisma is an AI-based tool that allows visitors of the Gropius Bau to translate exhibition texts and have them read aloud, activate subtitles in different languages during events and ask the artificial intelligence questions about the exhibitions and works on display. The Gropius Bau app is gradually becoming a digital hub for the institution's projects and content. Launched in summer 2022, the app has offered access to the digital work of different artists and other content. The Gropius Bau App is under development and will be gradually expanded with new content and functions. It is part of the institution's digital strategy. The app was funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Gropius Bau at every 3 days against Augmented Berlin's every 2 months. Gropius Bau also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). Augmented Berlin's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Gropius Bau holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Augmented Berlin has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Augmented Berlin ships an update every 2 months, Gropius Bau every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Augmented Berlin | Gropius Bau |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 666 MB | 394 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH | NEEEU Spaces GmbH |
Customer experience
Augmented Berlin
Gropius Bau
In-app purchases
Augmented Berlin
No in-app purchases
Gropius Bau
No in-app purchases
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