Comparison

Hear Art vs MuseScope

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

Head to head
About

Hear Art

Features
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Every masterpiece has a story. Hear Art tells it. Pick a painting and press "Watch the story": a short cinematic film opens with the world it was painted in, the life of the painter, and the history that followed โ€” then moves in close and shows you exactly where to look, detail by detail, as a narrator reads the canvas aloud. It is the feeling of a great museum guide leaning in to say, "now look here." WHAT YOU GET โ€ข 119 masterpieces from six centuries and 12 countries โ€” Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Hokusai's Great Wave, Van Gogh's Starry Night, Goya, Klimt, Monet and many more โ€ข A cinematic film for every painting โ€” the backstory, the painter, the history, and a guided close reading of the details โ€ข Narrated in eight languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese โ€ข Museum guides for the Louvre and the Prado โ€” a 3D floor map with walking routes that takes you straight to the painting, and the museums' most famous works pinned on every floor with the key details to look for โ€ข Browse by painter, by museum, by movement or by country โ€ข Landscape and portrait films, made for iPhone and iPad โ€ข A calm editorial design โ€” no clutter, no ads, no tracking FREE TO START, YOURS TO KEEP Ten paintings are free to explore. Unlock the entire collection โ€” and every painting added in the future โ€” with a single one-time purchase. No subscription, ever. Every artwork is in the public domain, sourced from museum open-access collections. Hear Art is for anyone who has stood in front of a painting and wished someone would tell them where to look.

About

MuseScope

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MuseScope is a pocket art guide: clear, engaging stories about artworks, artists and museums. Read them, or put your headphones in and listen. EXPLORE Tens of thousands of works, thousands of artists and museums, in ten languages. No jargon and no wall of dates โ€” just the one thing worth knowing about what you are looking at. LISTEN Any story can be read aloud to you. Walk the gallery, walk the dog: it comes with you. SCAN Standing in front of a painting? Point your camera at it and MuseScope tells you what you are looking at, from the label on the wall or from the picture itself. JOURNEYS Curated routes through a collection: a focused selection of works, and what to look for in each, so you have somewhere to start. ASK Why is the Mona Lisa smaller than you pictured? Was that famous pearl even a pearl? Ask, and keep asking. No wrong questions, no lecture. FREE AND PREMIUM The catalogue and its stories are free forever, and there is no advertising anywhere, the free plan included. Free also gives you ten successful scans and five audio guides a day, and a set of curated journeys. Premium unlocks the conversation, audio with no daily limit, every journey, and up to 200 scans a day. Premium is an auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and it renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://musescope.app/en/privacy Terms of Use: https://musescope.app/en/terms

Screenshots

Hear Art4 screens
MuseScope4 screens

Verdict

The call

Hear Art and MuseScope are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Hear Art sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and MuseScope sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Hear Art versus MuseScope: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHear ArtMuseScope
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size116 MB10 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperAlberto Gonzalo Rodriguez SalgadoIgor Fomin

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Hear Art

One-time1
  • Hear Art Unlimited$4.99
2 purchases

MuseScope

Subscriptions2
  • MuseScope Premium Monthly$7.991 Month
  • MuseScope Premium Yearly$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Hear Art free?
Hear Art is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MuseScope free?
MuseScope is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hear Art or MuseScope have ads?
Neither Hear Art nor MuseScope shows ads.

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