Meet paintings the way you meet people.

Afterglance shows you one painting. It tells you something true about it — who made it, what it is made of, what world it came out of. You can linger, look closer, and even talk with it. Or you can let it go, and meet the next one.

There is no feed to finish and no score to beat. The app quietly learns what holds your attention, and brings you more of it.

While you wait

How well do you really know art? Take the Afterglance quiz — 38 rooms of paintings, painters, thefts and scandals. At the end it tells you your art type.

Support

Something broken, something wrong, or something you wish it did? Write to support@afterglance.app and a person will answer.

If you are writing about a subscription, please include the date of purchase. Refunds are issued by Apple, not by us — you can request one at reportaproblem.apple.com.

Subscription

Afterglance is free to use. Patron lifts the daily limits and opens every gallery, as an auto-renewing subscription billed through your Apple ID. You can cancel any time in your Apple ID settings. The details are in the Terms of Use.

Privacy, briefly

No accounts. Your location never leaves your phone. Nothing you look at is uploaded. The only thing that travels is the text you type when you talk to a painting — because a painting cannot answer without it. The whole story is in the Privacy Policy.

The art

Paintings and their details come from Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata, drawn from the collections of museums around the world. The works are in the public domain; the writing around them is ours.