Comparison

DailyArt vs Nerdish

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

Head to head
About

DailyArt

Discover a daily masterpiece and its story to enrich your day with art history. Explore thousands of artworks, artist biographies, and museum collections. Engage with a community of art enthusiasts and learn something new in just two minutes.

Highlights
  • Daily art masterpiece with short story
  • Explore 4000+ artworks
  • 1200+ artist biographies
  • 600+ museum collections
  • Curated collections and city guides
  • Advanced search engine
  • Available in 23 languages
Features
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DailyArt is the #1 app to learn about art history. Every day, get inspired by beautiful classic, modern, and contemporary art masterpieces and read short stories about them. Join a community of art lovers for whom DailyArt brightens their day, every day. For free! Want to know why van Gogh cut off his ear? Find out who "invented" abstraction? Learn more about women artists forgotten by art history? Open DailyArt and find out! Download the app to: - Every day, get one piece of fine art with a short story about it, - Explore the collection of more than 5,000 masterpieces, - Read 1,500 artist biographies and information about 700 museum collections, - Explore carefully curated Collections and artsy City Guides, - Browse everything with our advanced search engine, - Use it in 24 languages! - Join DailyArt Patron, a club for art history enthusiasts. Furthermore: - Save masterpieces to your Favorites and organize them into your own boards, - Mark artworks you've already seen in real life — and those you'd love to see someday, - Add personal notes to artworks and keep your thoughts, impressions, and discoveries in one place, - Share everything with your family and friends, - Subscribe to receive everyday features as push notifications, - Use beautiful widgets, - If your language is not supported, use the translate button to read everything in it, - Set up your account and use DailyArt on multiple devices: your phones, tablets, smartwatches (and Apple Vision Pro), - Use either dark or light mode, And what's most important: enjoy art! Learn something new about art every day—you just need two minutes of your time. Get your daily dose of beauty and inspiration for free. Loved by users and praised by the App Store and international media since 2012, DailyArt is a must-have for all art lovers! ----------------------------------- If you love DailyArt, get DailyArt Premium! Learn about art history with no ads and get full access to all content. You can find our Privacy Policy here: https://www.getdailyart.com/privacypolicy and Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.getdailyart.com/terms

About

Nerdish

Expand your general knowledge with concise, engaging articles on diverse topics like science, history, and art. Designed for busy adults, this app delivers quick, fact-checked reads in 5-10 minutes daily to foster lifelong learning and personal growth.

Highlights
  • Concise articles on science, history, art, and more
  • Daily 5-10 minute learning sessions
  • Fact-checked and well-structured content
  • Connects key ideas for deeper understanding
  • Topics include psychology, technology, and daily life
Features
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Nerdish is a learning app that helps you grow your general knowledge. The articles inside are our own — written to show you things you'd never thought to look up, feed your curiosity, and help you learn more about the world. You can read them or listen to them, and most take about ten minutes: why people like spicy food, what Nefertiti actually looked like, how the internet crosses oceans. What's inside: - Articles we write ourselves. Each one starts with a question our editors find interesting, and gets researched properly before it's written. - Topics from the life around you. Sleep, coffee, déjà vu, the internet, Nefertiti — things you pass by every day without wondering about them. - Our own writing framework. It keeps every article interesting and concise, but still genuinely educational — a lot of thought went into getting all three at once. - Built as microlearning for adults. Short chapters of a couple of minutes each, designed to fit a phone screen and a busy day. - Audio for everything. Read it, listen to it, or follow the text while it plays. - Historical photographs, archive material and artwork alongside the text, with facts and details in the margins. - A wide range of subjects, from the human body to ancient history — and the connections between them. We built Nerdish for people who: - would rather spend phone time on something better than socials. Same ten minutes, different outcome. - enjoy learning random things for no particular reason. Curiosity doesn't need a goal attached to it. - want to stay mentally sharp. Reading something unfamiliar is a small habit that keeps the mind working. - want to find their way back to reading. Short pieces are easier to start with than a book you've been meaning to open for months. - want to have more to say — about art, history, or why the sky is blue. Why it works: There's no way to measure general knowledge and no point where you have enough. But it's what you're using when you read the news, or decide whether something sounds true, or find a solution that came from somewhere unrelated. Hardly any of us sets out to work on our knowledge. Nobody ever taught us how — there's no course in general knowledge, nowhere obvious to begin. So it stays on the list of things you'd like to do. Nerdish works because the mechanism is already there. Curiosity is what built your general knowledge in the first place, and it doesn't need much — an interesting question and ten minutes. And knowledge doesn't stay in separate piles. We write science with its history in it, history with its culture, and culture with the people behind it — nothing is only about one thing. Pick a topic, read or listen, learn something you'd never thought to look up. That's how general knowledge grows. Learn with us about: - Health and the human body: sleep, memory, ageing, and how the body actually works. - History: ancient empires, revolutions, great discoveries, and the people who changed things. - Science and technology: space, evolution, physics, AI, inventions, and everyday phenomena explained properly. - Daily things: why déjà vu happens, how coffee was discovered, where common ideas come from. - Art and culture: painting, music, architecture, design, literature, and the movements behind them. - Food: where dishes come from and why we like what we like. - Famous people: the lives behind the names. Welcome to being Nerdish with us! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

DailyArt4 screens
Nerdish4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Nerdish at none against DailyArt's shown. Nerdish also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and chart position (#77 vs unranked). DailyArt's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 60%) and ratings volume (38K vs 2.7K). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. DailyArt sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Nerdish sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for DailyArt against 4.8 for Nerdish. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DailyArt has 38K ratings behind it against 2.7K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of DailyArt's written reviews are positive against 60% of Nerdish's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DailyArt ships an update every 3 weeks, Nerdish every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
DailyArt versus Nerdish: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDailyArtNerdish
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (38K ratings) — better4.8 (2.7K ratings)
Positive reviews85.9% of reviews — better60.0% of reviews
Number of ratings38K — better2.7K
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#77 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size185 MB63 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperZuzanna StanskaNerdish OU

Customer experience

DailyArt

All ratings37,448 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral1.8%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews2,769 reviews
Positive85.9%
Neutral4.6%
Negative9.5%

Nerdish

All ratings2,667 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral2.2%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews105 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral12.4%
Negative27.6%

User reviews

DailyArt

From 38K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Diverse collection of artworks
  • 📚 Informative descriptions and art history
  • 🕰️ Daily dose of art inspiration
  • 💾 Ability to save favorite artworks
  • 🌐 Exposure to global art and cultures

Room to improve

  • 💰 Paid subscription required for full access
  • 🕰️ Slow loading times and performance issues
  • 🔍 Limited search and filtering options
  • 📚 Lack of diversity in featured artworks
  • 🤖 Intrusive ads and subscription prompts

Nerdish

From 2.7K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🌟 Interesting and informative content
  • 📚 Wide range of topics
  • 🤓 Helpful for learning and expanding knowledge
  • 🕰️ Bite-sized, easy to read articles
  • 🎨 Beautiful artwork and visuals

Room to improve

  • 💰 Subscription cost is too high
  • 📢 Too many ads disrupting the reading experience
  • 🔍 Lack of search functionality
  • 📝 Poor proofreading and editing of articles
  • 🔒 Issues with account access and login

Bugs and requests

DailyArt

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Widget not syncing with latest daily artwork
  • Inability to access previously saved favorite artworks
  • Crashes and freezes on certain devices or OS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved search and filtering by artist, medium, era, etc.
  • More diverse representation of global art and cultures
  • Offline mode for viewing artworks without internet
  • Integration with art museum virtual tours and exhibitions
  • Word search or translation features for language learners

Nerdish

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Incomplete articles with missing content
  • Frequent app crashes and freezes
  • Subscription issues and billing problems

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add audio narration option
  • Implement bookmarking and note-taking features
  • Improve search and filtering capabilities
  • Provide more free content without ads

In-app purchases

8 purchases

DailyArt

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly Premium7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Annual Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Patron7 Days trial$119.991 Year
One-time5
  • Tip 1$1.99
  • Tip us 22 variants$5.99
  • Tip us 3$9.99
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  • Tip us 42 variants$24.99
  • Tip us 5$99.99
5 purchases

Nerdish

Subscriptions5
  • Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Nerdish Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Easy Quarterly Plan$11.993 Months
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  • Nerdish Annual Special$29.991 Year
  • Nerdish Premium Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is DailyArt free?
DailyArt is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nerdish free?
Nerdish is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DailyArt or Nerdish?
DailyArt is rated higher. DailyArt averages 4.8 out of 5 from 38K ratings, while Nerdish averages 4.8 from 2.7K ratings.
Do DailyArt or Nerdish have ads?
DailyArt shows ads; Nerdish does not.
Which is updated more often, DailyArt or Nerdish?
DailyArt ships an update every 3 weeks, and Nerdish every 5 days. Most recently, DailyArt was updated on October 30, 2026 and Nerdish on October 29, 2026.

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