Artcodes vs Apollos Preview
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Artcodes
Create visually engaging codes by drawing beautiful images. Link these designs to websites for a fun and interactive experience, offering a playful alternative to traditional QR codes. Explore unique visual interactions for products, packaging, and services.
- Visually design interactive codes
- Link images to websites
- Playful alternative to QR codes
- Enhance product and packaging interaction
- Create unique visual experiences
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Artcodes allow everyone to become a coder. By drawing visually beautiful images, you can link them to websites to showcase how interaction can become fun and beautiful. Design visually beautiful images and encode them, resulting in the same interactivity as that of the QR code but with a more visually engaging and playful experience. Images can be identical with unique codes or the opposite: visually unique with identical codes. This interplay offers a new opportunity for visual interaction within, product, packaging, service and interaction design.
Apollos Preview
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Apollos Preview lets you open any Apollos experience by easily scanning a compatible QR Codes. You'll find QR Codes in your Apollos dashboard within launch center or when opening any share link.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Apollos Preview at fortnightly against Artcodes's every 2 months. Artcodes's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Artcodes ships an update every 2 months, Apollos Preview fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on June 7, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Artcodes | Apollos Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham | Apollos |
In-app purchases
Artcodes
No in-app purchases
Apollos Preview
No in-app purchases
