Comparison

Widget Art Gallery vs Masterpiece

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

Head to head
About

Widget Art Gallery

Display over 10,000 beautiful artworks on your home screen or today view. Customize widgets with art from world-renowned galleries and NASA, with optional overlays like time and date. Enjoy slideshows and favorite pieces for easy access.

Highlights
  • Display art on home screen
  • Browse 10,000+ artworks
  • Widgets from top galleries
  • Customizable widget overlays
  • Slideshows and favorites
  • Searchable art collection
Features
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Widget Art Gallery allow you to view over 10,000 beautiful works of art on your home screen or today view. Add an Art Gallery widget to your home screen and then choose to view pieces from a gallery, collections, favorites, or specific artwork. Add helpful overlays like time, date, battery, or add your own text. In the app you can browse or search all of the included artwork from several of the world's best art galleries. Tap the play button to view a slide show containing pieces from the current gallery or collection. You can add any piece to your favorites list for easy viewing later in the favorites gallery or in a widget. Featuring artwork from world famous galleries, such as the National Gallery of Art, Getty Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Rijksmuseum, and Mauritshuis, as well as spectacular photos from NASA. Widget Art Gallery is free to download and contains no ads. The free version allows the use of one widget. There is a one-time in-app-purchase that unlocks an unlimited number of widgets and helps support further development of the app. Please upgrade to Art Gallery Premium today. Widget Art Gallery is available on iOS and macOS and its sister app TV Art Gallery is available for tvOS. Widgets are only available on iOS 14 and macOS 11 Big Sur and higher.

About

Masterpiece

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Bring world-famous art to your home screen every day. Masterpiece delivers curated masterpieces from top museums — the Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Rijksmuseum, and Europeana — straight to your iPhone widget. [ KEY FEATURES ] 1. Art Widget Place artworks on your home screen in small, medium, and large sizes. Your widget auto-refreshes at your chosen interval. Choose from a downloaded bundle, your personal collection, or a random selection. 2. Curated Bundles Collections organized by artist, movement, or museum — 20 masterpieces per bundle. Download once and your widget works offline. Tap any artwork to view it full screen and save it in high quality to your Photos. 3. My Collection Save artworks you love into custom groups and set them as your widget source. Build your own personal gallery. 4. Browse & Search Explore open-access collections from seven world-class institutions: Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), Europeana, and the National Museum of Korea. Search by artist name or artwork title. 5. Artwork Details Artist, year, medium, and home museum — every piece comes with full context. [ BUNDLE COLLECTIONS ] - Monet Collection — Water Lilies, Impression Sunrise + 18 more - Van Gogh Collection — Starry Night, Sunflowers + 18 more - Impressionism Collection — Renoir, Degas, Morisot, Pissarro - Renaissance Collection — Michelangelo, Botticelli, Raphael, Titian - Landscape Collection — Friedrich, Turner, Hokusai, Hiroshige - Louvre Highlights — Mona Lisa, Liberty Leading the People + 18 more [ OPEN ACCESS ART ] All artworks are sourced from public-domain or open-access collections (CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA), via Wikimedia Commons and official museum APIs. [ NEW ] Now featuring the National Museum of Korea — explore over 2,000 Korean masterpieces, including National Treasures, in the Browse tab. Multilingual search is also smarter, delivering accurate results from every museum in any supported language.

Screenshots

Widget Art Gallery4 screens
Masterpiece4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Masterpiece at none against Widget Art Gallery's 2. Masterpiece also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). Widget Art Gallery's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price and ads 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. Widget Art Gallery sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Masterpiece asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Widget Art Gallery ships an update every 2 months, Masterpiece every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Widget Art Gallery versus Masterpiece: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWidget Art GalleryMasterpiece
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (90 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings90 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB17 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperCromulent LabsMIKYEONG JUNG

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Widget Art Gallery

One-time2
  • Art Gallery Premium$2.99
  • Art Gallery Premium Retail$4.99
None

Masterpiece

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Widget Art Gallery free?
Widget Art Gallery is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Masterpiece free?
Masterpiece is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Widget Art Gallery or Masterpiece have ads?
Neither Widget Art Gallery nor Masterpiece shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Widget Art Gallery or Masterpiece?
Widget Art Gallery ships an update every 2 months, and Masterpiece every 8 days. Most recently, Widget Art Gallery was updated on November 3, 2026 and Masterpiece on October 31, 2026.

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