Comparison

Famous 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

Famous Painters

Features
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through 8 major artistic movements: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Pointillism, Symbolism, Expressionism, Cubism, Abstract Art and Romanticism. For each painter: full biography, major works and photo of their masterpiece. Filter by movement, search for a painter and test your knowledge with the quiz. Features: 27 painters classified by artistic movement Biography and major works for each painter Photo of the main masterpiece Filter by movement and search by name Quiz: identify the iconic work of each painter Bilingual French and English Adjustable text size, iPad optimized

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
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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

Famous Painters4 screens
Parallel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Parallel at Free against Famous Painters's $0.99. Famous Painters's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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; Famous Painters costs $0.99 up front. Parallel sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Famous Painters asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Famous Painters versus Parallel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFamous PaintersParallel
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichel GarlandatAnatol Knotek

In-app purchases

None

Famous 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 Famous Painters free?
Famous Painters costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Parallel free?
Parallel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Famous Painters or Parallel have ads?
Neither Famous Painters nor Parallel shows ads.

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