A fine-art audio guide

Look closely.

Hear Art turns the world's great paintings into intimate narrated tours. As the story unfolds, the frame moves to the detail being discussed: a glance, a hand, a single brushstroke.

119 masterpieces 8 languages iPhone & iPad

Hear Art Today screen featuring Girl with a Pearl Earring
Hear Art guided focus player highlighting a detail in a painting
Hear Art painters collection

Narration with direction

Hear exactly where to look.

Each tour is timed to the painting. When the narration turns to Mona Lisa's eyes or Liberty's raised flag, Hear Art brings that detail forward. It feels less like reading a label and more like a guide leaning in to say, look here.

The focus player following the narration across Mona Lisa

See it in motion

Watch — and hear — the guide find the details.

As the narration plays, Hear Art detects each detail and frames it for you. Tap Listen on either painting to hear the actual guide, synced to the zoom.

Also on iPad

Las Meninas

Diego Velázquez · 1656

Museo del Prado · Madrid

The same guided tour, room-scale on iPad.

On iPhone

Las Meninas

Diego Velázquez · 1656

Museo del Prado · Madrid

Velázquez paints himself at the easel, the Infanta Margarita among her maids, and — in a mirror at the back — the king and queen, standing where you stand. The guide finds each figure in turn.

On iPhone

Liberty Leading the People

Eugène Delacroix · 1830

Musée du Louvre · Paris

Delacroix turns the 1830 revolution into myth: Liberty herself, tricolour raised, striding over the barricade. The guide moves from the flag to the boy to the fallen, detail by detail.

Made for looking

A quiet guide, not another feed.

No advertising, accounts, scores, or distractions. Just the painting, the voice, and the details that make the work worth standing before.

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Every work narrated

Six-part editorial tours move from first impression to composition, gesture, context, and the whole canvas.

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Eight languages

Listen in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. The interface and narration change together.

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Private by design

No account, no analytics, and no tracking. Played audio is cached for offline replay in the gallery.

Hear Art Explore screen with a catalogue of paintings

The collection

Six centuries. One place to begin.

Masterpieces from the Prado, the Louvre, the Uffizi, and the Rijksmuseum. Move from Vermeer to Hokusai, Goya to Cassatt, Caravaggio to Van Gogh. Browse 119 public-domain works by painter, period, country, or theme.

  • 10 complete tours included free
  • One-time unlock for the full collection
  • No subscription

Get Hear Art

Ten tours free. The whole gallery for one price.

Download on iPhone or iPad. Ten complete tours are free — unlock all 119, and every tour added later, with a single one-time purchase. No subscription, ever.

Questions about the app?

We keep support as direct as the guide.

Find help with audio, languages, offline listening, purchases, and privacy, or contact the developer directly.

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