Seen is the simplest way to remember every painting you've stood in front of. No account. No AI. No subscription. Just the paintings you've seen, kept on your phone. A life-list for art. Instead of counting countries, you're building a life-list of masterworks — Vermeers at the Rijksmuseum, Caravaggios in Rome, the Goya that made you stop walking. Every painting you mark becomes part of your own collection, remembered and counted forever. HOW IT WORKS • Tap "Near me" and pick the museum you're standing in • Tap through a curated list of that museum's paintings and mark the ones you saw • Do it all in one pass, without breaking your stride • When you're home, browse your stats: paintings, artists, museums and countries, and the stamps in your Passport A BEAUTIFUL SHARE CARD Every share button previews your card first, and the Wall Label style is always free. Share sends a PNG sized for Stories to the share sheet. Nothing is uploaded. DISCOVER WHAT'S WORTH SEEING • 55,000+ paintings from 1,100+ museums in 60+ countries • Curated lists: Iconic 100, All Vermeers, Impressionist Masters • Museum-scoped browsing, with each museum's artists ordered by how many works it holds • Artist pages that show where to see their paintings • Detail pages for every painting: title, artist, year, movement, museum, and a full-bleed hero image • Search by title or artist, or within any museum you're browsing • 12 paintings include an interactive guide with zoomable annotated hotspots COMPLETIONIST CHALLENGES See every Vermeer you can still stand in front of. See every Caravaggio in Rome. Find a painting from every century. Challenges reward slow looking, not speed. SEEN PRO Seen Pro, a one-time purchase with no subscription, adds Insights (your collection by century, movement, artist and place), every medal beyond your Passport stamps and visas, unlimited favorites and the Poster and Album share styles; everything else stays free. PRIVACY BY CONSTRUCTION Seen has no backend, no account, no analytics, no tracking, and no advertising. Your seen-list, favorites and visit history live only on your device. Your location is read only when you ask for it, tapping "Near me" or the locate button on the museum map, and it never leaves your phone. The only network requests Seen makes are to load painting images from public museum servers, plus Apple's own App Store traffic for the optional purchase above — Seen's own code never sees your payment details. Painting metadata is bundled, so browsing, searching and marking work without a connection; only the images need one. DATA & LICENSING The painting catalog is sourced from Wikidata (CC0 metadata) and filtered to public-domain and openly-licensed works, with images served by Wikimedia Commons, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Smithsonian. Every non-CC0 image is credited in Settings > About > Credits & Licenses. WHAT'S NOT IN SEEN No ratings. Rating the Mona Lisa feels absurd, so we don't. Binary "seen" and "favorite" only. No social graph. Seen is a private life-list. Share via the export card, not via friends lists. No scanner. Seen is for the quiet moment after the visit, not the one in front of the label. FOR CULTURE-CURIOUS IPHONE USERS Seen is for people who visit museums once or twice a year and want a nicer way to remember what they saw, and occasionally to show off. Not for art-history PhDs, not for every-weekend gallery-goers, not for critics. For you. Walk in. Tap. Share.
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