SFMOMA Audio 4+

I visited two years ago and I was impressed by how well the app worked and what it could do. When you entered a new room, new contented popped up on your screen. It had videos and interactive maps.

Now it’s just a traditional audio guide, where you enter a number an listen to the audio clip. It works fine, but the app seems a bit dated and I can’t understand why SFMOMA had a great app and throw that away. Sad!

Based on the bad reviews, I almost didn’t get the app before my visit to the museum yesterday. It worked fine for me. I was using a cellular connection. I had only one small complaint. When touring the Andy Warhol exhibit, if you accidentally clicked on “next” before you wanted to, there wasn’t a “back” button. The Warhol section of the app was the same as the audio tour you could pay for at the museum for $7 ($4 for members).

I live in SF and am an SFMOMA member. I’ve downloaded and tried to use this app multiple times over the last year Including today for the Warhol exhibit. It crashed multiple times on startup. Further myself and my daughter went to the trouble of downloading all the museum exhibit data into our two phones before visiting. Got to museum and it didn’t work. Only cellular streaming of the narration worked. Don’t bother using this app. I think they want to force you to rent their audio. Guides