IMBUED vs Helo Donut
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IMBUED
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Imbued is the first open metamuseum: a community where artists, museums and users collaborate and inspire one another. Use it how you want. Invent. Express. Communicate. We believe art lives in the eyes and bodies of those who make it, those who look at it, those who live with it. And where it lives, they stay young. That is Imbued: inspiration over engagement, the art to be, by making. A universal project, respecting cultures and crossing frontiers. THREE STEPS 1. Explore. Look around as a guest, without an account. 2. Create your profile before 15 April 2027, World Art Day, and you are a Forever Artist. 3. Make your own, and post it. EXPLORE THE ART WORLD Photography, painting, sculpture, digital art, video, music, collaborations. More than a million works from Europeana, the Met, the Smithsonian and many others, next to the work of museums, galleries, academies and artists. Everyone can exhibit. Navigate by artist, by museum or by emotion. Works are backlit and zoomable into the detail. Available in seven languages. YOUR BEHOLDER'S SHARE Stop on a work. Learn who made it, where, when, the story behind it. Then say what it does to you, draw over it, answer it with work of your own. That is your beholder's share: a concept developed by the art historians Ernst Kris and Ernst Gombrich, whose neural basis the neuroscientist and Nobel laureate Eric Kandel later explored. A work is finished by the person looking at it. MAKE YOUR OWN Make your own work, in Imbued's editor or with your usual tools, digital or analog, and post it. Art, and what it does to you. No followers to chase, no algorithm to feed. THE FOREVER ARTIST SOCIETY Create your profile before 15 April 2027 and you are a Forever Artist, among the first museums, galleries, academies and artists. Forever Artists get the real editor, the same tool a professional artist uses: drawing, painting, photo and video editing, illustration. Free, for good, with new features every month. And it is theirs to shape: Forever Artists propose what comes next, and watch it arrive. As Imbued grows they are the first to know, with dedicated events and exclusive offers. The doors close on 15 April 2027. YOUR WORK, SIGNED AND DATED Imbued gives the value of intellectual property back to those who own it. Sign a work with Art Blockchain and it is a One and Only: dated, signed, yours, with its provenance wherever the work goes. No financial speculation, no wallet, no complications. ART IS ALSO SCIENCE The power of art to keep you young is now science, too. UCL's Daisy Fancourt found that people who engage with the arts every week tend to age more slowly at the cellular level. Every week: art works the way a gym does. One visit a year changes nothing, the habit does the work. Only here what you exercise is the mind and the body together, and nobody has to make themselves go. That is why Imbued is home to a Sapienza University of Rome spin-off, built to study art as a way into science. And vice versa: art, universities, clinical and cultural institutions, labs and technology together, leading art into the digital age. AI FOR THE COMMON GOOD We believe artificial intelligence can be a tool for the present and for the future, but it has to be built for the common good, with universities and institutions directly involved. Through its university spin-off and the foundations and organizations it partners with, Imbued strives for an intelligence in the service of people: less and less artificial, more and more human-centered. Answer the call to arts. We believe art belongs to everyone, and that everyone who looks at a work becomes part of it. Forever art. Forever young. Imbued. I art therefore I'm. #ArtWillSaveTheWorld
Helo Donut
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Hello? Helo! We took away one "L" from "Hello"—to tear down the wall and connect people From my friends to friends of friends, and beyond The beginning of trusted connections, Helo Donut Donut Network From your friends... to your friend’s friend’s friend’s friend! A wide-reaching network of up to 4 degrees of trusted connections. Now you can buy, sell, and share real tips and info within your trusted Donut Network. - 1st-degree friends: People you've mutually added as friends - 2nd-degree friends: Friends of your 1st-degree friends - 3rd-degree friends: Friends of your 2nd-degree friends - 4th-degree friends: Friends of your 3rd-degree friends When you add a 1st-degree friend, connections up to the 4th degree are automatically expanded. Connections only begin with mutual friend requests—so it's more trustworthy. Friends Tab - Add Friends: The starting point of the Donut Network. Add friends via QR code or your contact list. - Suggested Friends: Randomly recommended users who added you or are connected to your 2nd-degree network. Chat Tab - General & Trade Chats: From casual conversations to transaction-related chats—chat freely and manage with ease. Donut Tab - Browse posts shared by your extended Donut Network—up to 4 degrees of connection. - Donut Deals: Posts listing items for sale from users within your Donut Network. You can see how many degrees away the seller is and who connects you. - Donut Stories: General updates and news from people in your Donut Network. Want to share something with your trusted network? Post a Donut Story. Post Tab - Discover posts outside your Donut Network. Enjoy posts from users you follow or posts recommended by Helo Donut. - Post Subscriptions: Found someone who posts interesting content? Subscribe to their posts and stay updated. Profile & My Page Tabs - Profile: Tap on any user’s ID or name anywhere in the app to view their profile. See their posts, follow their updates, or start a chat. - My Page: This is your personal profile page. Add a profile picture, name, and intro to express yourself freely.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Helo Donut at 15.1 against IMBUED's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IMBUED | Helo Donut |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 367 MB | 133 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alobar LTD | Thirteen Company Inc. |
In-app purchases
IMBUED
No in-app purchases
Helo Donut
No in-app purchases









