Comparison

Painters vs Parallel

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

Head to head
About

Painters

Explore a curated collection of nearly 200 classical painters and their iconic masterpieces. Discover detailed insights into artworks, creation dates, techniques, and artist biographies. Bring the museum experience home, whether for study, admiration, or collection.

Highlights
  • Explore nearly 200 classical painters
  • Detailed artwork insights
  • Artist biographies and styles
  • Sort by name, century, museum, or birth year
  • Available in 6 languages
  • Order art reproductions
Features
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Gallery of Painters - Discover Masterpieces Are you passionate about classical art? Gallery of Painters brings the world’s most iconic paintings directly to your fingertips. Explore a curated collection of nearly 200 painters, including Pieter Brueghel de Oude, Paul Czanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Juan Gris, Frans Hals, Gustav Klimt, Michelangelo, Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rembrandt van Rijn, Egon Schiele, Johannes Vermeer, Leonardo Da Vinci, John William Waterhouse and more. Browse legendary works like The Night Watch, The Milkmaid, or Sunflowers, with detailed insights into the artwork, creation date, size, museum location, and artistic technique. Learn about the artist’s life, birthplace, nationality, and style. Key Features: - Sort by name, century, museum, or birth year - Available in 6 languages: Dutch, English, German, French, Spanish, and Italian - Order a reproduction in various sizes - With love and craftsmanship, a fantastic replica on canvas - You can also order the DVD collection of Holland Heritage, created by the Dutch filmmaker Menno Mennes Whether you study, admire, or collect – Gallery of Painters - brings the museum experience to your home.

About

Parallel

Explore historical connections by viewing multiple timelines simultaneously. Discover who lived at the same time as historical figures and events. Create custom collections or use curated ones to delve into specific eras and topics.

Highlights
  • View multiple historical timelines
  • Discover contemporaries at a glance
  • Access concise biographies with Wikipedia links
  • Create custom history collections
  • Offline functionality
  • Private and no tracking
Features
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Who lived at the same time as Mozart, Van Gogh, or Napoleon? Parallel lays out several timelines at once, and the connections that usually stay hidden appear at a glance. It's your tool for assembling history around what interests you. Ten curated collections come built in, from earth history and the arts to sciences, rulers, empires, buildings, and the events that shaped history. They make it easy to start and give you a taste of what Parallel can do. The rest is yours to shape. For the curious, for the classroom, for everyone who loves history. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Swipe and zoom through the millennia, from antiquity to today. • Line up exactly the collections that fascinate you. • Highlight a person and see their contemporaries at a glance, while everything else fades into the background. • Open any entry for a clear, concise biography or summary, with a link to Wikipedia. • Bring dates and the Wikipedia link straight from Wikidata into your own entry. • Follow a single thread through time, filtered by topic, place, era, and more. • Create your own collections and fill them with what matters to you. • Zoom out from a single year all the way to 13.8 billion years. Every built-in entry is carefully researched, historically grounded, and fact-checked. Try it for free Ancient Rome is included as a ready-made sample collection, no Pro needed. In a few seconds you see how a collection comes together, and it stays with you afterwards. Buy once, no subscription. You buy Parallel just once. The Pro upgrade lifts every limit: unlimited collections and entries, creating and filling your own collections from a spreadsheet or from copied text, your own copies of the built-in collections, and exporting the whole timeline as a PDF. No hidden costs. If you want to go deeper into specific topics, optional premium collections are available. Private and offline Your entries stay on your iPhone. No account, no sign-up, no tracking. The app works offline. Only the Wikidata look-up needs an internet connection. History belongs to everyone, but your data belongs to you.

Screenshots

Painters4 screens
Parallel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Parallel at 100% against Painters's 20%. Parallel also leads on price (Free vs $1.99). Painters's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and device support (3 vs 1). On update cadence 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

Parallel is free to download; Painters costs $1.99 up front. Parallel sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Painters asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Painters ships an update monthly, Parallel every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Painters versus Parallel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaintersParallel
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating—4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMcWood SolutionsAnatol Knotek

Customer experience

Painters

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%

Parallel

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Painters

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Parallel

One-time4
  • Painters & Sculptors XL$1.99
  • Buildings XL$1.99
  • Science & Technology XL$1.99
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  • Parallel Pro$3.99

Questions

Is Painters free?
Painters costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Parallel free?
Parallel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Painters or Parallel have ads?
Neither Painters nor Parallel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Painters or Parallel?
Painters ships an update monthly, and Parallel every 3 weeks. Most recently, Painters was updated on October 12, 2026 and Parallel on October 24, 2026.

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