Seen
The simplest way to remember every painting you've stood in front of.
Like Been, but for art. Mark paintings as you walk through a museum, build a life-list of masterworks, and share a beautiful stat card when you're done.
How it works
You're at the Louvre. You want to remember the rooms full of Vermeers, the Caravaggios you stood in front of, the Rothko that made you stop walking. By the time you get home, half of them are gone.
Seen is the app that fixes that.
- Tap Near me, pick the museum you're standing in.
- Swipe through that museum's curated painting list — hundreds, not thousands — and mark the ones you see.
- A full Louvre visit logs in under a minute.
You're done. The next time you open the app, every Vermeer you've ever seen is there. Every Klimt. Every Rothko. Every Renoir. Every museum you've been in. Years from now, this is the only place that still remembers.
The share card
Open Profile. Tap Generate share card.
A 9:16 image renders on-device — your numbers laid out in editorial serif typography, ready for Instagram Stories. No emoji, no garish gradients, no template look. Just the shape of what you've seen.
Pick a variant: lifetime stats, a single visit, your art DNA (top movements), or a milestone moment.
What's bundled
- 30,000+ canonical paintings sourced from Wikidata, the Met, AIC, and Rijksmuseum APIs — all CC0 metadata, all public-domain images.
- 1,000+ museums worldwide — from the Met to the Hermitage to the Rijks to your local regional gallery.
- Curated lists — Iconic 100, All Vermeers, Impressionist 50, and more.
- Detail pages for every painting with hero image, artist, year, movement, and museum.
- Filters by museum, period, or movement.
Privacy
Seen has no accounts, no sign-up, no analytics, no third-party SDKs.
Everything you mark, every visit you record, every favorite — stored only on your iPhone. The app makes one network request: loading public-domain painting images from the museum's CDN. Your location is requested once when you tap "Near me" and never leaves the device.
Read the full privacy policy.
Built for iPhone
iOS 17+. Native SwiftUI. Zero dependencies. Available on iPhone everywhere the App Store ships.
Made with attention to detail. If something feels wrong, tell us.