Daily art history and modern

I had a gotten this app a short time ago. It seemed to work and I thought I had gotten pro. Checked today no pro. When you hit restore, it takes you to a screen that says something about welcome to the family. Then you can’t exit out of that. Mind you the restore is way down low barely tappable. You have to close the app to start all over again. If you tap the heart symbol the app just crashes. This app is a mess. One star and delete.

Hats off to the developer for creating an interesting, educational, and relaxing app with a sleek interface. This app does one thing really well, which is to introduce the user to classic and compelling art pieces. Details about each piece are easily accessed and they help tell the story of the artwork. Along with paintings, the art includes photography, architecture, and sculpture, with new pieces available to view in each domain every day. The app keeps a library of the items viewed so you can look through them again at your leisure. I am pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoy looking through the content, and find it relaxing when I am waiting for an appointment or have a few minutes to kill. So much better than playing a mindless game or getting distracted by social media. I get exposed to new pieces of art history and learn things I would never come across otherwise. For me this app is a hidden gem that keeps me coming back each day to see what’s new! The only change I would like to see is the option for the text-based information to support dark mode. The white background is pretty stark for my eyes, even if I dim my screen. Aside from this, this app is a keeper.

.. Art may be subjective and open to various interpretation but principles of honesty and transparency are not. When an app registers and lists its privacy policy in the App Store as “data not collected” be sure to ALWAYS look at its actual disclosures. After navigating past an oddly and mostly unreadable onboarding process (text size was huge and unchangeable) my brow was further raised when I began reading through the *actual privacy policy. The app has a nice concept and a developing execution. Fair. The bait and switch privacy policy? Not a good look. 👀 ——Update—— “By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.” Do developers use copy and paste policies from the internet? Do they mean what they say? Why would there even be categories of collection, use, retention, sharing (with mergers, partners, affiliates, service providers, etc) where your data is defined as an asset of the company? This also implies such future handling even if not in current practice.. If word and principle matter to you, read the actual legal privacy policy, and test the easy claims. Honor and a good name can still be lost even if “everybody does it.”