Museum Alive vs GlobeViewer PRO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Museum Alive
Explore extinct creatures brought to life through augmented reality, guided by David Attenborough. Discover fascinating facts about their habitats, diets, and the circumstances of their demise. This app offers rich, educational, and entertaining content for all ages, featuring detailed information, stunning visuals, and award-winning videos.
- Augmented reality creature resurrection
- David Attenborough narration
- Detailed creature info packs
- Award-winning Attenborough videos
- Interactive hidden hotspots
- Meet four extinct creatures
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Guided by David Attenborough, select a scientifically accurate fossil from the museum and watch it come back to life in your own room using augmented reality. Explore the creatures world and discover fascinating facts about their habitats, food chains and how they met their fate. Packed full of detailed info packs, stunning images and videos spanning David's broadcasting life, Museum Alive is full of rich education-enriching entertaining content for all audiences. Download Museum Alive with David Attenborough and get ready to witness long-extinct animals as you've never seen them before. App Features: MEET FOUR EXTINCT CREATURES Meet the bizarre Opabinina, a strange fish-like creature with five eyes. See Dimorphoson, a pioneering flying dinosaur, soar through the air. Spy on the fearsome Smilodon on a hunt. Discover Archaeopteryx and its fossil before witnessing its bones pop up and take flight! Learn about these incredible creatures through the narration of Natural History Legend, David Attenborough. AWARD-WINNING ATTENBOROUGH VIDEOS Watch David Attenborough on his quests to discover more about these incredible animals. See David analyse the wings of the amazing flying dinosaur. Dive into the Cambrian sea to discover some of the worlds earliest life. Witness a Smilodon skeleton come alive and stalk through museum corridors. HUNT HIDDEN HOTSPOTS Hunt for hotspots hidden around the creatures to learn about their lives. Discover what our planet looked like millions of years ago. Dive into scientific debates about how these animals may have looked and behaved. Find other animals that coexisted with the museum creatures. - Best used in a space with good lighting on a textured floor or surface. For the best experience, ensure your device is not on mute. Supported on iOS 13+ on iPhone 7 upwards and on iPad 7th Gen upwards. ©Atlantic Productions Limited. All Rights Reserved.
GlobeViewer PRO
Explore Earth with a high-resolution 3D globe and detailed topography maps. View surface and underwater features, track natural events, and discover millions of place names. Offline data caching is available for continued exploration.
- Interactive 3D globe
- High-resolution topography maps
- Surface and underwater views
- Natural event tracking
- Offline data caching
- Millions of place names
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GlobeViewer is a high resolution 3D terrestrial globe with topography and surface maps. This app enables a high-quality view of the surface of our blue planet. It is divided into two areas: the rotatable, global view as an interactive globe and a high-resolution 3D map representation of the Earth's topography. - Interactive 3D globe with surface, underwater and topography maps - High-resolution 3D topography map set of the entire Earth's surface - divided into 22,912 individual tiles. You can load 110 different regions onto the interactive globe, which then present the many individual tiles in a meaningful, connected way and reload them automatically. The app initially only contains the textures for the globe in low resolution. All required downloads are automatically loaded from our server. A total of around 105 GB of data is available. The data remains in the cache on your device for offline use, but can be deleted at any time in the main menu. Furthermore, all events recorded by the GDACS, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, etc., are entered on the globe. The 3D topography map is based on the elevation data from the NASA Terra probe, which recorded 83° of the northern and southern hemispheres between 2000 and 2013 - this is the result of the ASTER3-DEM. With version 0.10.0, the map is enriched with around 7.5 million place names from geonames.org. This means that all the towns, mountains, lakes, deserts and many other geographical features entered there are shown on the map. From version 0.12.0, data from OpenStreetMaps (buildings, borders, streets...) is also available on the tiles - but only for the demos and the purchased maps. Use the tutorial in the app to get started quickly or read the manual to find out which functions are included in this app. Since the app is still under development, some functions may still change. We hope you enjoy using GlobeViewer!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Museum Alive at $2.99 against GlobeViewer PRO's $14.99. Museum Alive also leads on rating (2.9 vs 1.0) and review sentiment (39% vs 0%). On update cadence, 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
Museum Alive costs $2.99 and GlobeViewer PRO $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Museum Alive holds the better App Store score, 2.9 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Museum Alive has 50 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Museum Alive's written reviews are positive against 0% of GlobeViewer PRO's.
Museum Alive ships an update every 2 months, GlobeViewer PRO every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Museum Alive | GlobeViewer PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 2.9 (50 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 38.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 50 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.4 GB | 236 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Atlantic Productions Ltd | RAB-Software |
Customer experience
Museum Alive
GlobeViewer PRO
Bugs and requests
Museum Alive
Reported bugs
24 issues- Crashes constantly
- App freezes and crashes
- App crashes when trying to move beyond introductory screen
- App kept closing - never worked
- App would kick user out to home screen
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- App crashes instantly when choosing dinosaur
- Just a black screen
- Doesn't work on iPad
- App crashes when you want to 'explore'
- Program opens but when you click on 'explore', nothing happens
- Surroundings and scenario do not load anymore
- Cannot get past 'find a flat surface'
- Crashes immediately when you click 'explore'
- Gets stuck when exiting and coming back in
- Didn't work
- App just closes when pressing explore button
- Game boots back to Home Screen on iPad
- Archeopterx has model glitches
- Will not go past 'pinch to size' screen
- AR freezes and then crashes
- Tracking is pretty bad
- Dioramas don't stay in one place
- Paid for the app but it doesn't seem to work
- Can't get past 'pinch to scale experience'
Requested features
11 requests- Add more creatures/animals
- Update the app
- Add dodo update
- Add Dinornis/Harpagornis, Mammut americanum, Gigantopithecus, Glossotherium, Gigantophis, Ichthyosaurus, Iguanodon and Diplodocus
- Fix bugs and glitches
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- Add subtitles/CC
- Ability to pause videos
- Support VR
- iPad support
- Enable sound
- More exhibits
GlobeViewer PRO
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Museum Alive
No in-app purchases
GlobeViewer PRO
No in-app purchases
Questions
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