DailyArt

The good stuff: So, I absolutely adore this app. I don’t even care that there’s a premium, and with most apps I hate it when there’s a premium. The app helps me discover art and new artists which I find incredibly interesting and fun. Highly recommend. The bad stuff: I encountered a glitch a couple months into using the app. My dad paid for the family plan, which I was covered under. I believe he started that in mid-January. One day in early March it completely logged me out. I was still technically covered under the family plan, as was everyone else in the family, but for whatever reason I couldn’t log in. My dad and I tried multiple times but the app would not let me log in. It was pretty close to the day he would have to renew the plan anyways, so we just decided to let it be and he stopped paying for it and now we are back to non-premium DailyArt. I’m not sure what happened, but I thought I’d include it in the review so somebody could maybe see and address it.

Anyone with the most minor interest in art, needs this app; it will create a great lover of art out of you. Honestly, I think anyone at all needs this app, there isn’t a single person I know who doesn’t appreciate some paintings, even if not others, which is the beauty of this app. It is the most unobtrusive entry into the world of art, featuring pieces taken from the most famous museums and galleries around the world and smaller ones that are lesser known, that introduce you to things you would have never found otherwise. The method is pretty simple, 1 piece a day with a short bit about what you’re looking at underneath. That’s it, there you go. If you don’t like todays, wait till tomorrow. And bit by bit, you start to enter into the vast world of art and movements and cultures and it becomes really cool and also beautiful. I suggest paying to remove ads, it’s not expensive and it let’s you click around freely, search for specific pieces, look at your favorites, etc. Another feature I love is that the pictures of the art when you click on them each day typically are very high resolution, much nicer than what you can find on the internet, and you can zoom in and out and really see so much detail that you would otherwise only be able to see if you were there at the museum, potentially halfway across the world.

I have been using DailyArt for 4 years years now, since I was a sophomore in college. Before that, I didn’t have much experience in the art realm as far as history went. I mainly knew that I had an ability to appreciate art, that it made me happy to look at and analyze a piece, and that it made me think critically about something other than school which I have appreciated ever since downloading this app. DailyArt curates works everyday so that I don’t have to go out looking on my own and they have introduced me to so many artists I wouldn’t have otherwise stumbled upon. This app has become my escape from the busy life as a student now in a doctoral program, allowing me to slip away into the wonderful world of art and push the stress of exams, deadlines, etc away even if it is just for a moment. I highly recommend this app to any beginner (and seasoned art connoisseur as well) wanting to learn about art from around the world and establish a solid base. The diversity of works presented allows you to develop your own tastes so that you can go out and research your preferred style even more. It has become part of my daily routine and I recommend reading the daily work over breakfast with a warm cup of coffee and a pastry😁