Recognize
Snap the painting, the bust, the vase. Odd angle, busy gallery, it doesn’t matter: Opus finds the work.
Inviting testers now · iPhone & Android
Opus recognizes paintings, sculpture and objects from a single photo, then tells you who made them, where to see more, and what other visitors thought.


Snap the painting, the bust, the vase. Odd angle, busy gallery, it doesn’t matter: Opus finds the work.
Rate what you saw, write a line about it, and keep a record of every museum visit and every work that stopped you.
See which museums are near you, what’s on now, which masterpieces hang inside, and where your friends have been.
How it works

Frame the work, at any angle. Gilt frames, glare and people walking past are fine.

Opus searches 2 million artworks and shows the best match with an honest score, plus close alternatives.

The artist, the date, the medium, where it hangs, and what people who stood in front of it had to say.
Reviews
Star ratings and short reviews for individual works, not just museums. Reply to other visitors, follow people whose taste you trust, and see what’s trending this week.
Read our guides to looking at art →
Map
Opus maps 15,000 museums and collections. Tap one for directions, current exhibitions, closing dates, and the masterpieces it holds.


Your Curator
Earn badges for visits and discoveries, from your first scan to a van Gogh seen in person, and dress your Curator in what you’ve unlocked.

Not sure?
Opus never pretends. Every result shows how confident it is and the closest alternatives. If the work isn’t in the catalogue yet, add it in a few taps and we’ll review it.
How to identify a painting from a photo, with or without an app →
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Pollock and Krasner at the Met, Brancusi at MoMA, Pop at the Guggenheim and a new Vermeer conversation at the Frick. Here’s what’s on, what closes first, and what opens this month.

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Monet’s centenary at the Orangerie, Mary Cassatt and the Statue of Liberty at the Orsay, a free Eva Gonzalès retrospective at the Petit Palais, and the venue mix-up to avoid. Here’s what’s on and what closes first.
Yes. Opus is free while we test it, and recognizing artworks will stay free.
We are inviting testers in small groups on iPhone (through TestFlight) and Android (through Google Play testing). Request access with your email and we will send an invite when a spot opens.
Paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and museum objects. About 2 million works can be matched from a photo today, out of 13 million works in the catalogue, and the number grows every week.
You see the closest possibilities with a match score, and you can add the work yourself. We review every submission before it goes into the catalogue.
No. It works on a painting in a gallery, a print in a book, or a picture on a screen.
Works from about 15,000 museums and collections worldwide, from the Louvre and the Met to small regional museums, plus 12,000 exhibitions.
Tell us your email and your phone. We let testers in every week.