Comparison

Museum Diary vs Gallery Mate

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

Head to head
About

Museum Diary

Capture and organize memories from your museum visits. Scan placards, save favorite pieces, and log quiet moments. This private app keeps your art collection in one place without ads or tracking.

Highlights
  • Scan museum placards
  • Save favorite art pieces
  • Log quiet moments and sketches
  • Organize visit memories
  • Private by design
Features
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Designed by a designer, for those who fall in love with pieces and want to remember them. You've been building a collection for years. Photos buried in your camera roll, memories fading between visits. Museum Diary gives your pieces a home. Scan the placard before you walk away. Everything is preserved in one tap. - Save any placard, from any museum (zoo, aquarium, history, & more!). - Your favorite pieces from every visit, all in one place. - Log the benches, sketchbook pages, and quiet moments too. - Private by design. No ads, no tracking, just your art. Every museum visit is a chapter. Start keeping yours.

About

Gallery Mate

Features
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Gallery Mate is a quiet companion for gallery and museum visits. Every exhibition can become a personal art journal—what you saw, how you felt, and the path you walked—saved securely in the cloud and ready to revisit anytime. Before your visit • Create a journal for any exhibition • Upload a poster to auto-detect the title, venue, dates, and curator • Plan your trip, add it to Calendar, and get reminders During your visit • Photograph artworks and add them instantly to this visit • Use AI OCR on wall labels to keep the artist, title, and description with each work • Capture notes in the moment—what you felt standing in front of the piece • Save related articles, podcasts, reviews, and further reading • Ask the built-in assistant questions grounded in your works, labels, links, and notes—not generic answers After your visit • Replay the whole visit on a timeline • Upload a floor plan, pin artworks, and reconstruct your route • Share a read-only link so friends can read your journal • Download an offline pack for unreliable venue Wi‑Fi Designed for people who love exhibitions The interface is inspired by a quiet gallery: generous space, restraint, and the artwork as the focus. Your journal, written by you Sign in with Apple, Google, or email. The app supports Chinese, English, and more. Cloud sync keeps your journals with you across devices. Gallery Mate helps you leave behind “I took so many photos, but I can’t remember that visit”—so every trip to see art is worth remembering. Some AI features may use credits. Capture, sync, and sharing require a network connection. Downloaded journals can be viewed offline.

Screenshots

Museum Diary4 screens
Gallery Mate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Museum Diary at none against Gallery Mate's 1. Gallery Mate's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.5). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Gallery Mate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Museum Diary asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Museum Diary ships an update every 2 weeks, Gallery Mate every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Museum Diary versus Gallery Mate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMuseum DiaryGallery Mate
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.516.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size175 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLan Zhou宇琪 潘

In-app purchases

None

Museum Diary

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Gallery Mate

One-time1
  • Starter Credits$1.99

Questions

Is Museum Diary free?
Museum Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gallery Mate free?
Gallery Mate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Museum Diary or Gallery Mate have ads?
Neither Museum Diary nor Gallery Mate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Museum Diary or Gallery Mate?
Museum Diary ships an update every 2 weeks, and Gallery Mate every 2 days. Most recently, Museum Diary was updated on October 4, 2026 and Gallery Mate on October 12, 2026.

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