✨ What is Da p_Arte?
Da p_Arte is a mobile-first PWA (Progressive Web App) built to capture, catalog, and share, in a simple way, the artworks you come across in museums, galleries, exhibitions, or on the street.
It works as a shared digital journal for the community: every entry you save enriches a common collection visible to every art enthusiast, while also helping you expand your own knowledge.
⚙️ How does it work?
- Create a new entry: Tap the + button at the bottom right.
- Capture photos: Take or upload photos of the artwork and of its descriptive label (the museum caption). You can add several photos to each artwork.
- 🗂️ Add many at once (Batch): inside the + screen, tap 🗂️ Batch to import a whole set of photos in one go, then group them into separate artworks — marking one photo as the label of each. Perfect after a fair or a long visit.
- Reorder & choose the cover: hold a photo and drag it where you want. The first artwork photo — marked COVER — is the one shown in the grid.
- ✂️ Edit photos: the ✂️ button opens a small editor to rotate (90°), straighten a slightly tilted shot, correct the perspective (for artworks photographed off-angle), and crop. It works on already-saved photos too (tap "Edit").
- Automatic recognition (AI): tap 🔁 under the label photo to mark it as 📝 Label — the AI starts reading it on its own and fills in artist, title, year, technique and exhibition. It never overwrites what you already typed.
🚀 What can you do?
- Advanced search and filters: filter the collection by Artist, Exhibition/Museum/Fair, Technique, Year, Represented by or Uploaded by. Tap + Add filter and choose to Include or Exclude specific details (e.g. hide a certain technique).
- Filter by quality: pick Medal level among the filter fields to see only the artworks the community rated — 🥉 Bronze or above, 🥈 Silver or above or 🥇 Gold only. They're thresholds, so "Silver or above" also shows the golds.
- 👥 Follow the people you like: open an artwork and tap Follow under the uploader's name. Then use the 👥 Following filter to see only what the people you follow have added.
- Instant sharing on WhatsApp: open one of your artworks and tap 📤 WhatsApp: the app prepares a formatted message with all the details and the photo, ready to send.
- Clickable links: any web link you write in an artwork's notes (for example a Wikipedia page) becomes a tappable link in the detail view — handy for sharing sources.
💡 Suggestions: fixing things together
Tick "Info Needed" when a label is unclear, and the community can propose the missing details. You can also allow suggestions on your artworks at any time from your profile.
- When you suggest: you get a confirmation that it was sent, and you're notified either way — whether the author accepts it or not. If it's accepted you earn a 🎖️ Star Medal.
- When you receive suggestions: they're grouped by field. You see the current value and every proposed option, each with how many people suggested it — so if ten people agree on the same year, you see it at a glance. Accepting one option resolves that field; everyone who proposed the accepted value earns a 🎖️.
- Suggestions stay private between you and the author — never public.
🔎 Discover more about the artists
In an artwork's detail, tap "Learn more about the artist" for a short, sourced summary from Wikidata / Wikipedia, with links to the original pages — so you can always verify.
- Consistent names: while editing, tap 🔎 Match artist to Wikidata and pick the right person from the list. This keeps artist names consistent across the collection (so "Van Gogh" and "Vincent van Gogh" become one).
- Not on Wikidata? For emerging artists you can paste a Q-id, a Wikipedia/Wikidata link, or simply the artist's website or gallery page as a reference link.
📤 Send photos to the app Android
On Android you can pick photos in your Gallery, Google Photos or Files and use the phone's Share menu to send them straight into Da p_Arte — the app opens ready to catalog them (several photos go into the Batch flow automatically).
For this to appear in the Share menu, install the app using Chrome (or Samsung Internet). On iPhone this isn't available, but you can still import photos from inside the app with + → 🗂️ Batch.
🌸 Flowers and medals
When you open an entry uploaded by someone else, you can reward it:
- 🌸 Flower: a simple "like" for the artwork.
- Quality medals: tap one or more of the qualities "Well photographed", "Well detailed", "Well explained". Depending on how many you select, your rating automatically becomes a medal: 1/3 → 🥉 Bronze, 2/3 → 🥈 Silver, 3/3 → 🥇 Gold.
Total counts are visible on each artwork's thumbnail and in the detail view, while your profile shows the total recognition received across all your artworks.
📊 How the feed is ordered
The home grid isn't purely chronological: it balances freshness and quality, so a beautifully documented artwork doesn't disappear after a few hours, and new entries still get their moment.
- New entries start high and slowly drift down as hours pass.
- Medals lift an artwork back up (🥇 counts more than 🥈, and 🥈 more than 🥉): careful, well-documented work stays visible longer.
- Recognized contributors get a small boost — capped, so nobody can monopolize the feed.
Two ways to browse: the app opens as a gallery wall — one artwork at a time, full-width images. Tap ⊞ next to "Search & filters" to switch to the compact mosaic (and ☰ to come back) — the app remembers your choice. And when you reach the end you'll see "You're all caught up": the collection has an end, no infinite scroll.
That boost comes from points you earn only through recognition from others: medals received on your artworks and suggestions of yours that get accepted. Uploading by itself earns nothing — quality is what counts, not quantity.
Points slowly fade if you stop taking part (nothing changes for the first couple of weeks), and they come back as soon as you contribute again.
🎖️ Star Medals
If you suggest an edit on someone else's artwork and the author accepts it, you earn 1 🎖️ Star Medal, shown as a dedicated stat on your profile — a way to recognize those who help enrich the collection with correct information.
👆 Gestures
Da p_Arte prefers gestures to buttons — fewer things on screen, faster hands:
- Mark a photo as 🏷️ Label and the AI starts reading it by itself. No button to press; it only fills fields you left empty.
- Double tap a post (someone else's) — in the feed or inside the artwork — to open the quick reactions: 🌸 like and the three qualities that earn medals. One tap applies and closes. A single tap still opens the artwork.
- Hold and drag a photo in the editor to reorder it. The first artwork photo is the cover.
- Pinch an artwork photo to zoom in on a brushstroke; drag with one finger to move around, tap once to go back.
- Swipe a panel down to close it — no need to aim at the ✕.
- Hold the + to jump straight to batch import.
- Hold a visit in My p_Art to rename or delete it. Deleting a visit never deletes artworks — it just unlinks them.
- Swipe a row in list view: left to delete, right to file it into a visit. Swipe a notification to dismiss it.
- ⋯ in an artwork holds the secondary actions — share, report, delete.
Nothing asks "are you sure?" any more: deletions happen right away and a short Undo appears at the bottom of the screen. If you close the app before it disappears, the deletion is simply cancelled.
📁 Visits: your outings, organised
A visit groups the artworks of one outing — a museum, a fair, a gallery walk. Visits are personal: only you see them, in My p_Art.
- Tap ＋ New visit in My p_Art, give it a name, and every new artwork joins it automatically — including batch imports. Fields like exhibition and location carry over from the previous artwork of the visit.
- Tap the visit card again to close it (or it closes by itself after 12 hours).
- After a batch import, the app offers to group the new artworks into a visit with one tap.
Tip: the view toggle now has three states — ☰ gallery, ⊞ mosaic, and ≣ list, a compact sortable table for scanning your data (tap a column header to sort).
🕶️ Privacy: private artworks and incognito
Da p_Arte is first of all your personal catalogue — sharing is optional:
- Private artwork: when saving an artwork, turn on 🕶️ Private and only you will see it. The first time you upload, the app asks which default you prefer; you can change it anytime from your profile.
- Incognito profile: a switch in your profile hides all your artworks from the shared collection at once, and your name from the community filters. Turn it off and your public artworks reappear.
🔞 Sensitive content & reporting
This is an art catalogue: nudity in art is normal and needs no special treatment. For genuinely explicit or violent imagery there's a 🔞 Sensitive content flag:
- The author can turn it on when saving; the photos then appear blurred until tapped.
- Anyone else can ask the author to blur an artwork via the suggestion form ("🔞 Sensitive content") — the author accepts or declines, like any other suggestion.
For content that doesn't belong here at all (spam, hate, explicit material with no artistic context) use ⚑ Report in the artwork detail: reports go privately to the site maintainers.
Authors can also mark a received suggestion as 👎 not constructive (spam, rude, nonsense): it's removed and whoever sent it is notified — keep suggestions factual and respectful.
🔔 Push notifications
The app can now alert you even when it's closed. The first time you sign in, your device will ask permission to send notifications — tap Allow to enable them.
Once enabled, you'll receive a notification on your phone (even with the app in the background or fully closed) when:
- Someone suggests an edit on one of your artworks;
- An author accepts a suggestion you made on their artwork;
- An author doesn't accept one of your suggestions — so you're never left waiting for an answer;
- An author flags a suggestion of yours as not constructive (👎).
In the app, your notification list has a ✕ on each item to delete it (even if unread), plus Clear all to empty the list.
You can change this anytime from your device's system settings for the app or site. If you tapped "Block" by mistake, re-enable notifications there.