Artmark vs Spot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Artmark
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Collect the monuments around you. Turn every walk into an adventure. Artmark is a real-world collecting game: explore a live map of landmarks near you, and when you're standing in front of one, snap a photo to add it to your personal collection. From local churches and statues to world-famous towers and cathedrals — catch them all. HOW IT WORKS • Open the map and discover monuments all around you. • Walk up to one and take a photo on the spot. • It lands in your Dex with facts, your own photo, the date and XP. • Use the dual camera to capture the monument and yourself in one shot. BUILD YOUR COLLECTION • Every find is sorted by rarity — from Common to Iconic. • Hunt for rare "Unicum" variants: a holographic version that appears about 1 in 50 finds. • Collect special seasonal cards during events. LEVEL UP • Earn XP, climb levels and unlock badges and ranks. • Complete side quests and collection sets that keep getting harder. • Rebuild lost monuments piece by piece in Hidden Art puzzles. • Test your knowledge with a daily quiz. EXPLORE & EARN • Find gold coins hidden on the streets as you walk. • Spend them on XP boosts, or re-photograph a monument for another shot at a Unicum. PLAY WITH FRIENDS • Add friends with your personal code. • Share your finds to your feed, and like and comment on others'. • Climb the weekly friends league and the all-time leaderboard. • Team up and collect together toward weekly team rewards. Available in 8 languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Polish. Whether you're exploring a new city or rediscovering your own, Artmark turns the world into your museum. Start collecting today. Artmark Premium unlocks the full app, available as a Monthly or Yearly auto-renewable subscription with a 7-day free trial. After the trial it renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period; the price is shown in the app and on this App Store page before you subscribe. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Manage or turn off auto-renewal anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://artmark-privacy.netlify.app
Spot
Discover and track a wide range of real-world phenomena, from aircraft and trains to celestial bodies and natural events. Customize your map view, build a personal logbook, and receive custom alerts for nearby occurrences. Your data remains private and on-device.
- Live radar map
- Customizable map layers
- Detailed object information
- Personal logbook and collection
- Customizable alerts
- Sky and astrology tracking
- On-device data privacy
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Spot is a spotter's logbook for everything that moves. Planes overhead, trains and buses going past, ships offshore, tagged wildlife, the ISS at dusk. See what is around you, bank what you catch, and build a collection. THE MAP Aircraft, with helicopters, military, emergency and privacy-flagged flights called out. Trains, buses and ships. Airports. The ISS and upcoming rocket launches. Earthquakes, wildfires, lightning and severe weather. Road incidents, roadwork and events. Tagged sharks from OCEARCH. Landmarks. Confirmed ALPR camera locations from public OpenStreetMap data. Flight restriction zones. Tonight's sky objects on real geography. RADAR SCOPE The same contacts on a plan position scope centred on you. Range rings, a rotating sweep, phosphor afterglow and colour coded blips. Pinch to set the range, 2 km to 500 km. SENSOR Your own movement, from the phone's GPS, barometer and accelerometer. Live speed on a dial, altitude, climb rate, g-force, heading and position. All on the device, so it works in a tunnel, on a train, or in airplane mode. Choose mph, km/h or knots. JOURNEYS Hit record, put the phone in your pocket, and Spot writes the whole trip down: route, speed, altitude, climb and g-force. It keeps going with the screen off and pauses itself when you stop. Every journey lands on a globe you can spin, each mode in its own colour Replay a trip with a time scrubber, or watch a long flight play back on the globe Lay your live stats over video you filmed on the trip and save it to Photos Export any journey as a GPX file LIVE ACTIVITIES Pin a flight and follow it on the Dynamic Island and Lock Screen: position, altitude, speed and arrival. Start a nearby radar and watch the count of aircraft around you change. A recording journey gets its own Live Activity with a stop button. SPOTDEX Every kind you have caught, laid out like a dex. Dex numbers, first and last seen, flyover tallies, notes and photos. Uncaught entries stay silhouettes until you find them. BADGES Over a hundred badges across milestones, logbook, craft, places, photos, habits, flyovers, watchers and journeys. FOG OF WORLD The ground you have walked is cleared from a fog layer over the map. Fold the world into a globe, see the countries and cities you have set foot in, and climb the explorer ranks. Journeys clear fog as you travel. SKY AND SPACE What is up tonight from where you are: the Moon and its phase, planets, bright stars, meteor showers and comets, with rise and set times and a watchlist. Then the solar system in 3D, with the ISS on its live orbit. SPOTTER AR Hold the phone up and Spot overlays nearby aircraft and the ISS on the real sky, so you know which light you are looking at. ALERTS A tracked plane or train passing overhead. Emergency squawks nearby. Rare aircraft and special callsigns. The ISS overhead or due. Earthquakes, wildfires, lightning and severe weather near you. Launch countdowns. Entering a flight restriction zone. A followed shark surfacing again. A watched wildfire growing, contained, or out. PRIVACY Location stays on the device. One tap on the kill switch shuts down every GPS read across the app, and a blur option hides your exact pin for screenshots. Nothing is posted anywhere unless you share it. WORKS OFFLINE The Sensor readout, journey recording, Fog of World, the globe, the sky chart and your whole logbook all run with no connection. ICLOUD Sightings, photos, badges, fog, follows, watchlist and journeys sync through your own private iCloud database. You choose what carries. SHORTCUTS AND WIDGETS Widgets for your pins and the radar. Siri shortcuts to pin a flight, start a radar, or ask what is overhead. SPOT PRO Spotting, pinning, the logbook, badges, Fog of World, the sky chart, Sensor and Journeys are free. Spot Pro adds the server backed feeds and their alerts, monthly. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Artmark at 15.1 against Spot's 17.2. 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. Artmark sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Spot sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Artmark ships an update every 3 days, Spot every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Artmark | Spot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.1 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 88.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 8 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mick Van dijk | William Whitehouse |
In-app purchases
Artmark
- Artmark Premium7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Artmark Premium7 Days trial$22.991 Year
Spot
- Spot Pro$0.991 Month









