Refrakt vs Walter's Cube
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Refrakt
Experience digital art overlaid onto the real world through augmented reality. Scan images to reveal interactive virtual artworks that transform your surroundings. This app acts as a virtual museum, blurring the lines between physical and digital realities.
- Augmented reality art viewing
- Scan images to reveal digital artworks
- Interactive virtual reality experiences
- Transform real-world surroundings
- Virtual museum experience
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Refrakt is an augmented reality app. By scanning selected images, digital artworks become visible and the original pieces get transformed in virtual reality. The digital world is ubiquitous, yet invisible to the naked human eye. Refrakt is a virtual museum revealing this increasingly relevant part of our daily lives and social interactions. By crossing the boundaries of physical space, various objects of all kinds of media play with the viewer’s perception of parallel realities. The device being used becomes an apparatus for this new world and lets the viewer interact with his immediate surroundings. While scanning real-life objects, he will perceive alternate realities in a virtual space.
Walter's Cube
Explore virtual art exhibitions from around the world. Immerse yourself in gallery spaces as if you were there, and access shows anytime, anywhere, regardless of your location or if the exhibition has ended.
- Virtual exhibition tours
- Immersive gallery exploration
- Access global art shows
- View past exhibitions
- Multiplatform support
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Visit exhibitions Immerse yourself in the experience of art with our innovative technology. Visit exhibitions and walk through them as if you were actually there in the space. Real galleries, real exhibitions Experience actual exhibitions from around the world and move around the gallery spaces exactly as you can when you're actually there. Never miss a show again In Tokyo but want to walk through a show in New York? Or really wanted to see one but it has ended already? No problem. Access exhibitions online anytime, anywhere. Multiplatform Works on any platform, on any device, so you can enjoy an exhibition anytime, anywhere.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Walter's Cube at 4.3 against Refrakt's 1.0. Walter's Cube also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and ratings volume (12 vs 2). Refrakt's advantage is iOS requirement (9.3 vs 15.2). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Walter's Cube holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Walter's Cube has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Refrakt's written reviews are positive against 100% of Walter's Cube's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Refrakt | Walter's Cube |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 4.3 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 15.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 339 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Carla Streckwall und Alexander Govoni | VR Space Holdings Inc. |
Customer experience
Refrakt
Walter's Cube
In-app purchases
Refrakt
No in-app purchases
Walter's Cube
No in-app purchases
