Musento
Letterboxd for museums. Log every visit, earn points, and race friends up the leaderboard.
Musento is Letterboxd for museums. Find a museum, log the visit with a date and an optional private note, and it joins your personal collection: points, achievements, and a history you can look back on years later. Built solo in SwiftUI.
Log a visit, keep a diary
Every visit is a small record: which museum, which date, and what you thought of it. The date picker reaches back decades, so a lifetime of museum trips can be entered retroactively, not just the ones from after installing the app. Notes are private by default — visible only to you, never shown to friends or on any leaderboard — while the visit itself, the points it earned, and the achievements it unlocks become part of a public collection friends can see.
An extensive museum catalogue
Rather than maintain a hand-curated list, Musento builds its museum catalogue from Wikidata, covering a huge range of institutions worldwide, searchable by name or city and browsable by what’s nearby. Location is optional and used only to answer “what’s near me” — it’s sent for that one request and never stored, and the app never tracks location in the background. Search works fine without granting it at all.
Points, achievements, and friends
Visits earn points and unlock achievements, and friends whose requests you’ve accepted can see your collection alongside their own. Global leaderboards rank handles and scores, turning a solitary hobby into something a little competitive. None of it depends on ads or trackers: points and standings have no monetary value, and the app doesn’t sell data to anyone.
Private by design
Sign in with Apple or email, with your data protected behind row-level access controls so one member can never read another’s private data. Deleting an account from Settings removes the profile, visits, notes, friendships, and achievements immediately and irreversibly.
Read Musento’s privacy policy and terms of use, or visit support for help.
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