Comparison

Learn Something New vs ArtArc

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

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Learn Something New

Features
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Learn something new every day โ€” in the same time you'd spend doomscrolling. Swipe an endless feed of real encyclopedia articles, stop on whatever grabs you, and actually keep what you read. Most feeds are built to keep you numb. This one is built to make a fact stick. Every article you open can be turned into a short summary you'll finish, an explain-it-simply version when the topic is dense, a set of flashcards, or a quick quiz โ€” so the thing you read at 11pm is still in your head next week. A daily streak, a reading goal in minutes, and a weekly report keep the habit honest. WHAT YOU GET - An endless feed of fascinating articles you can filter by topic โ€” space, history, science, art, weird trivia - Long articles turned into a 1, 3, or 5-minute read, plus an "explain it simply" version and a "why it matters" take - Flashcards and multiple-choice quizzes generated from any article, so reading turns into remembering - Articles read aloud hands-free while you walk, cook, or commute - A personal library: bookmarks, named folders, and full reading history you can go back to - A daily streak, streak calendar, progress dashboard, and weekly report that show the habit adding up PERFECT FOR - Doomscrollers who want the same thumb habit to leave something behind - Students and lifelong learners who study best in five-minute pieces - Trivia and pub-quiz people stockpiling facts worth repeating - Anyone with a commute, a queue, or ten idle minutes to fill WHY NOT JUST BROWSE THE ENCYCLOPEDIA YOURSELF? Because a raw encyclopedia page is a wall of text with no reason to come back. Here the article arrives already sized to your attention span, with a flashcard deck and a quiz one tap away, a Daily Pack waiting each morning, a 5-Minute session when time is short, and Focus Mode when you want one article and zero distractions. The site gives you information; this gives you a habit. PRIVACY No account, no sign-up, no email. Your bookmarks, folders, history, streak, and quiz results stay on your iPhone. Reminders are optional and stay off until you turn them on. FULL ACCESS The feed, search, Daily Pack, bookmarks, and three AI-assisted article tools a day are free. Full Access unlocks unlimited summaries, explain-it-simply, why-it-matters, ask-a-question and mind maps; flashcards and quizzes for every article; 5-Minute Mode and Focus Mode; unlimited bookmarks and folders; and the progress dashboard with weekly reports. Available as a weekly plan, a yearly plan, or a one-time lifetime unlock โ€” pick one, and cancel a subscription anytime in Settings. ABOUT THE CONTENT Article text comes from Wikipedia and is available under the CC BY-SA license. This is an independent reading app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation. An internet connection is required to load articles. Open this feed tonight instead of the one you always open, and start a streak. Terms of Use (EULA): https://web-levi.web.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://web-levi.web.app/privacy-policy Questions? Email tphuc.work@gmail.com

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ArtArc

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The everyday person's guide to the story of art - told as one interactive arc. ArtArc begins half a million years ago with a zigzag carved on a shell, and ends with pictures conjured from words. Twelve chapters, sixty-six moments, each one a story you can read in a minute. Then the app asks you to do more than scroll: * Play Style Detective, an offline quiz that asks you to identify eras, artworks, and turning points from bundled images and clues. * Build your Art Passport as you visit chapters, read milestones, find artwork details, and improve your Detective score. * Use Compare Mode to place ideas side by side: Durer's copy panic beside Stable Diffusion, the Sarony photography case beside AI copyright rulings, Duchamp beside the state-fair AI art argument. * Tap selected artworks for guided hotspots on symbols, composition, technique, and context. * Reveal Details wallpapers: explore an artwork's hotspots and its museum-grade close-up - cropped from open-access masterpieces at wallpaper resolution - appears in your gallery. Along the way: โ€ข The Ice Age galleries of Chauvet and Lascaux - and the 1880 scandal when experts refused to believe cave art was real โ€ข Egypt's painters of eternity, Greece's first signed artworks, Rome's painted illusions โ€ข The Renaissance inventions: perspective, oil paint, and the first mass-media copy panic โ€ข Photography's arrival - when critics called the camera "art's most mortal enemy" and courts had to rule on whether a machine's picture could be art at all โ€ข Impressionism (named after an insult), Van Gogh (who sold almost nothing), Duchamp's urinal โ€ข The machine age: the 1965 plotter exhibitions, the program that painted for forty years, and the night two duelling neural networks changed image-making forever โ€ข The prompt era: DeepDream's hallucinations, the $432,500 AI portrait, the astronaut riding a horse, the state-fair prize that started a global argument - and the court rulings deciding, once again, what counts as art Every image in the app comes from public-domain and museum open-access collections - including landmark AI works that US rulings placed in the public domain - and every one is fully credited on its detail page. Designed to be felt as much as read: era-themed colours wash the screen as you travel, milestones light up along the timeline's spine, and imagery drifts gently as you scroll. A persistent native menu lets you move between Timeline, Art Passport, Compare, Style Detective and Settings. Settings brings your Plus status, language, help and privacy together. At home on iPhone and iPad, with portrait and landscape layouts on iPad. The full story is free: every chapter, every milestone, every attribution. ArtArc Plus (optional) unlocks unlimited Style Detective rounds, every hotspot pack and Compare pair, and saving Details wallpapers to Photos - with new art packs added through the year. Available as a monthly or annual subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew until cancelled in Settings. No account. No ads. No tracking. The bundled stories, images and quizzes work offline. Purchases, restore, subscription management and external links need an internet connection. Explore in English, Spanish or French; change language at any time in Settings. Made for the curious. No art degree required. Privacy Policy: https://butterflybombarby.au/artarc/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Learn Something New4 screens
ArtArc4 screens

Verdict

The call

Learn Something New and ArtArc are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Learn Something New sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per 7 days and ArtArc sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Learn Something New ships an update monthly, ArtArc every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Learn Something New versus ArtArc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLearn Something NewArtArc
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size9 MB30 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperPhuc PhamChris Nagy

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Learn Something New

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Premium$5.997 Days
  • Annual Premium$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$59.99
3 purchases

ArtArc

Subscriptions2
  • ArtArc Plus Monthly$2.991 Month
  • ArtArc Plus Annual$22.991 Year
One-time1
  • ArtArc Plus Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Learn Something New free?
Learn Something New is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ArtArc free?
ArtArc is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Learn Something New or ArtArc have ads?
Neither Learn Something New nor ArtArc shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Learn Something New or ArtArc?
Learn Something New ships an update monthly, and ArtArc every 3 weeks. Most recently, Learn Something New was updated on November 9, 2026 and ArtArc on October 31, 2026.

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