Smartify

What reviewers actually said

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1. [R16] 1/5 · US Not feed back: After 2 hours trying, opening and account, paying for audio tours I have nothing and nobody help with results
2. [R3] 5/5 · US Klimt - the Kiss: Truly informative and educational! Try love this app !
3. [R4] 5/5 · US The classroom: Truly like being in class at a major university
4. [R15] 5/5 · US Joy of art: So amazing to be able to identify paintings that give such joy
5. [R28] 5/5 · US Good job dev team 👏: I like this app! The scanner works, I get to save my favorite paintings and artists… many paintings come with a blurb, even shows where they’re on display, plus the app looks good :) The search function did take me a few tries to figure out. Say I look up Monet, then Fragonard, the app would search for Fragonard in Monet works 😅
6. [R60] 5/5 · US Brilliant: Smartify is the absolute best for identifying paintings, accurate and almost instantaneous. Color me a fan.
7. [R66] 5/5 · US Smartify - indispensable: Use it often to scan and identify. ( purely as a hobbyist).
8. [R93] 5/5 · US Absolute life changing App!: I work in the art field and just found this app! I had a few paintings that I didn’t know who painted them. The app not only brought up the name, date and artist, but also a complete description of the artist life!
9. [R58] 5/5 · US Taliesin West: Just used it today with an iPhone 12 and Bluetooth earbuds and it worked perfectly. Also in my group was an iPhone 11 and an Android, both with connected earbuds/headphones. None of us had any issues.
10. [R72] 5/5 · US Victory of Lord Duncan: Re: Smartify app: Nice to not have to walk to the wall to read the explanation about the paintings!
11. [R79] 5/5 · US Fabulous way to see a museum: Don’t forget your earbuds or glasses. Includes kid presentations.
12. [R83] 5/5 · US Extends the museum experience: Accessible and enriching to the museum experience!
13. [R64] 5/5 · US Thank you: Amazing app, remodel looks and works great, thank you for all your hard work
14. [R118] 3/5 · US a great APP but...: I like the UI design of the app, but it struggled to find Hugo Simberg : "The Wounded Angel" even in search it only providing the artist’s bio but no painting at all.
15. [R249] 3/5 · GB Good App ???: Downloaded this app and it’s quite easy to use. I was part of Mshade test held on 18th jan and quite liked the app. Few comments below 1. Image processing is quite slow in some scans, glass reflection my be an issue. 2. I struggled with focus, while scanning paintings particularly small images. 3. Scanning an object from any angle don’t recognise the object, you need to have kind o
16. [R1] 1/5 · US Keep losing the scans and having to rescan.: Keep losing the scans and having to rescan. Favoriting is and holding onto museum is hard. Keeps sending me back to new museums in other parts of the world when trying to be present. not obvious. Poor UX
17. [R10] 1/5 · US Won’t recognize anything: Attempted to identify a painting I have had for years. Using the scan it just states cannot recognize. So I used it on some well known paintings and artists, get the same response.
18. [R13] 1/5 · US Absolutely worthless: I scanned several oil paintings that had been previously identified by appraisers and authenticators and this app did not ID a single one of them. Don’t waste your time. It’s a joke.
19. [R14] 1/5 · US It Knows Nothing: I’ve had Smartify for about a month now and of the 45 or so items I have scanned, it has no information at all on any of them, yet I was able to do a search online myself and find out what most of them were. I’m deleting the app.
20. [R33] 1/5 · US Why.: I am not the type of person to go traveling or anything, I just wanted a function that can have access to your photos and knows it’s name from my photos gallery, the fact that this app doesn’t have such a feature is kind of depressing, developer please add such a function.
21. [R141] 3/5 · US Work from photos?: Would it be possible to scan art photos taken before the app was installed? I occasionally visit private collections.
22. [R200] 4/5 · GB Access to Photos Denied: One of the great features of earlier versions allowed you to go to a photo you had taken in a gallery and get the description of the work of art. I wonder why it was removed
23. [R213] 3/5 · GB dissapointing: They removed the photo upload feature. this app sometimes doesn’t work in the museum because of signal or bad wifi etc. so what i used do was take a photo and use the photo upload feature to scan, but now they have it removed and have to use google arts and culture to find artworks instead
24. [R2] 3/5 · US Lovely when it works: Very cool when it happens to have a painting in its database, which it usually doesn’t. E.g. some paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, but none of its Canalettos.
25. [R5] 1/5 · US Can’t identify a lot of paintings: Corn poppy kees von dongen and a mattise with a cat i have could not identify
26. [R45] 1/5 · US BROKEN: Totally broken app. The tours never finish downloading. Burned up 2GB of mobile data. DO NOT USE. TOTAL WASTE OF TIME.
27. [R59] 2/5 · US Audio re-routed away from AirPods at each station: Used at Taliesin West - headphones are required for the audio tour, but the app would switch the audio from AirPods to speaker when it switched “tracks” at every station. Maybe the app tried to force set set wired headphones even though we were using airpods?? Happened 16 times on both my iPhone 12 and my wife’s SE v2 - we each have AirPods Pro (v
28. [R203] 5/5 · GB Doesn’t seem to work.: Download App then downloaded the audio tour for Upton House, England. I’ve clicked on several of the audio tours but they don’t play.
29. [R271] 3/5 · CA À améliorer: Pratique de pouvoir télécharger avant d’aller au musée… quelques bugs et problèmes d’incompatibilité avec les écouteurs personnels. Et le moteur de recherche dans l’application est clairement défaillant.
30. [R8] 1/5 · US Widgets?: Where are the widgets?
31. [R22] 1/5 · US Who knows where the audio tour is: Finding the app less than intuitive.
32. [R25] 1/5 · US Not What I Hoped For: When I visit a museum, I normally purchase a book and pick out what I want to see, and then plan. I thought this would help, but it doesn’t. I would like it if I could pick the museum and then the artist and have the app list the artist’ works in that museum. But, it lists the works all over the world. I love the favorites function but wish I could group by museum.