Hear Art
Painting Audio Tours
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Hear the world's masterpieces come alive. Immersive audio tours zoom into every detail as a storyteller guides your eye — 100+ paintings, beautifully narrated.
Hear Art turns your iPhone into an editorial audio guide for the world's great paintings.
Each of 119 masterpieces — from Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring to Hokusai's Great Wave — comes with a narrated tour that does more than talk over the image. As the voice describes a detail, the frame gently moves and focuses on exactly what you're hearing: the eyes, the hands, a single brushstroke, the distant horizon. It is the feeling of a great museum docent leaning in to say, "now look here."
• 119 paintings, hand-curated across six centuries and 12 countries
• Narrated audio tours in eight languages — English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese
• Focus segmentation: the artwork zooms and dims to follow the narration, beat by beat
• Browse by museum — the Louvre, the Prado, the Rijksmuseum — by painter, or by theme
• Download for offline listening on the gallery floor
• A calm, editorial design — no clutter, no ads
Ten tours are free to explore. Unlock the entire collection — and every tour added in the future — with a single one-time purchase. No subscription, ever.
Every image is in the public domain, sourced from museum open-access collections. Hear Art is for anyone who has stood before a painting and wished someone would tell them where to look.
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• Hear Art now speaks eight languages — narration in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese joins English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian
• 16 new masterpieces — the collection grows to 119 paintings
• New Museums section — browse the collection by where it hangs, from the Louvre to the Prado
• Landscape listening: a redesigned player with read-along narration text
• Better iPad layouts in portrait and landscape
The developer, Alberto Gonzalo Rodriguez Salgado, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Alberto Gonzalo Rodriguez Salgado
- Size
- 87.4 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 7 more
- English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Sexual Content or Nudity
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Hear Art Unlimited $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Alberto Rodríguez Salgado
