Version 1.1 — Now with Apple Intelligence
Track artworks, manage clients, generate invoices, and search your collection with Apple Intelligence. Seamlessly across Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch.
Intelligence, outreach, and professional tools for every stage of your workflow.
Generate catalogue descriptions, artwork tags, exhibition texts, and collection health reports. On-device, private, no internet needed.
Search in plain language. Ask for "available paintings under $10,000" and refine with follow-ups. Conversational, fast, and private.
Seven-stage prospect pipeline. Log calls, emails, and WhatsApp messages. Send show pages. Schedule follow-ups. Convert leads to clients.
Professional PDF catalogues with cover page, artwork checklist, and QR code. Public and private editions.
AI analyses your spreadsheet columns and maps them automatically. Supports English, German, French, and Spanish headers.
Data completeness dashboard, inventory health scoring, consignment alerts, and AI-generated action items.
Apple Intelligence
Art Aura uses Apple's on-device language model to write descriptions, classify artworks, and understand natural-language search. No data leaves your iPad. No subscription required. No internet needed.
Tap "Generate with AI" for catalog descriptions, exhibition labels, and historical context. Auto-generate tags for style, subject, palette, mood, and keywords.
Type "available paintings under $10,000" and get instant results. The AI understands price ranges, mediums, status, artists, and client queries.
AI analyses your entire collection and generates a health report with narrative insights, action items, and data quality alerts. Knows what needs attention.
Generate curatorial statements, press releases, and social media captions from your exhibition's artworks. Three options, one tap.
Drop any CSV — AI reads the headers (in any language) and maps columns to artwork fields. Preview the mapping, adjust if needed, import.
Enable auto-suggest and Art Aura writes descriptions for you as you create new artworks. Prewarmed Neural Engine means zero wait.
Voice-activated PDF generation with Siri. Say the command, get a professional report. Works on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch.
Professional gallery tools built into a single, elegant app.
Photos, metadata, provenance history, shipping records, exhibition tracking. Search by title, artist, medium, or year. Multiple images per artwork.
Record transactions, calculate commissions, track invoice status from creation to payment. Email invoices with a tap. Register payments with date tracking.
VAT-compliant invoices, receipts, certificates of authenticity, inventory sheets, price lists, QR labels, and VAT reports. All print-ready.
Inventory, sales, client, and financial reports. Export to PDF or CSV. Convert all values to any of 15 world currencies for international clients.
Import from Contacts or add manually. Track purchases, relationships, and VAT registration status.
Complete ownership history, previous owners, exhibition records, and publications. Professional-grade documentation.
Track every shipment with carrier, tracking numbers, insurance, and chain of custody.
Organize shows, assign artworks, automatic status updates based on dates.
Track artworks at other galleries. Record terms, commissions, and agreements.
Automatic statistics, exhibition history, sales revenue, and available works per artist.
Recent artworks, clients, and sales on your wrist. Perfect for art fairs.
Full-screen presentations via HDMI or AirPlay. Your iPad controls, the screen shows art.
Deletion safeguards for artworks and clients with sales history. Backup and restore.
Track gallery prospects through a 7-stage pipeline. Import contacts from CSV, send emails, log calls and WhatsApp, and convert prospects to clients.
Generate professional PDF exhibition catalogs with hero images, artwork checklists, and gallery contact details. Share privately with prices or publicly.
Comprehensive VAT handling designed for artists and galleries in the European Union.
Mark clients as VAT-registered, store VAT numbers, track countries. Correct VAT treatment applied automatically.
Standard VAT for domestic sales. Reverse charge for EU B2B. Zero configuration once set up.
Professional PDFs with proper VAT breakdown, registration numbers, and reverse charge notes.
“Generate VAT report” creates a complete breakdown. Export to CSV for your returns.
Whether you create, sell, collect, or consult.
Track your portfolio, manage collectors, generate VAT-compliant invoices, and create reports with Siri while you work in the studio.
Provenance tracking, shipping history, exhibitions, consignment, and commission calculations. Professional-grade features.
Catalog with complete provenance, track shipping and locations, manage valuations. Reports for insurance and estate planning.
Advise multiple clients, maintain detailed records, generate documentation. Voice commands make quick lookups effortless.
Focused walkthroughs tailored to how you work with art.
Studio inventory, collector management, VAT-compliant invoicing, and Siri-powered reports. A 4-page guide to running your practice with Art Aura.
Download PDF ›Catalog your collection, track provenance and locations, manage valuations, and generate reports for insurance and estate planning.
Download PDF ›Consignment tracking, commission calculations, exhibitions, marketing outreach pipeline, show page generation, shipping history, and multi-currency reporting. The complete gallery operations guide.
Download PDF ›The full 19-page reference covering every feature in Art Aura. From first launch to advanced workflows.
Download PDF ›Step-by-step workflows for common tasks: adding artworks, recording sales, generating invoices, and running reports.
Download PDF ›From Unix pipes at Bell Labs to Apple Intelligence on your iPad — a forty-year thread connecting how we think about tools, data, and the singular value of art.
In 1935, Walter Benjamin wrote that an original artwork possesses an Aura — a unique presence that no reproduction can replicate. The aura is everything that makes a work singular: its history, its material existence, the hands that made it, the rooms it has hung in.
Every time you document provenance, record exhibition history, or track a work's journey from studio to collector, you preserve its aura. That is why the app carries this name.
Ken Thompson created Unix in 1969 on a radical idea: programs should be simple tools that do one thing well, and the power comes from combining them. Brian Kernighan gave this philosophy its voice — his writing turned a technical system into a way of thinking about design.
Simplicity is not the absence of sophistication but its highest form. A tool should be transparent. Data should be readable by human eyes. These principles shaped everything that followed.
Richard Hamilton was meticulous about his work. In the early 1980s, we cataloged his entire output using Unix tools: ed for editing, grep for searching, awk for transforming data, nroff and troff for typesetting. When something more specific was needed, a small C program connected to the others through pipes. The inventory was a plain text file — one line per artwork, fields separated by colons:
The inventory number encoded meaning: 37.01/D — year 1937, first sequence, drawing. You could sort chronologically by sorting on the number. Extract all oils with grep '/O'. Find everything from the 1960s with grep '^6'. The data structure was the interface. 791 records spanning 1937 to 2004 lived in a single text file. No database server. No proprietary format. Just text, colons, and the Unix pipe. Art Aura can still import this format directly.
Together with Richard Hamilton, we created the Diab — a computer as much a design object as a computing device. An attempt to bring the clarity of Unix thinking into the physical world. The Diab now sits in MoMA's design collection in New York, in the Tate Gallery in London, and at Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
We also created The Infowell for Documenta in Kassel — an information system for one of the world's most important contemporary art exhibitions. It sat at the intersection of art, design, and computation. Both projects asked the same question Art Aura addresses today: how do you build technology that serves culture rather than consuming it?
There is a direct line from that colon-separated text file in 1982 to Art Aura in 2026. The problems are the same: catalog the work, track the ownership, document the provenance. The principles are the same: keep the data clean, portable, and under your control.
Instead of grep '/O' hamilton.txt, you type “available oil paintings” and the device understands. Instead of piping through awk and nroff, you tap a button and get a typeset PDF. Apple Intelligence runs on the Neural Engine in your pocket — no server, no internet, no data leaving the device. The pipe has become wireless. The terminal has become a touchscreen. But the philosophy endures.
No accounts. No analytics. No cloud AI. Just your collection, on your device.
All data stored on-device with SwiftData. No external servers, no third-party databases.
No accounts, no sign-ups. Download and start using immediately.
No tracking, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no third-party SDKs.
Sync across your devices via your own iCloud account. End-to-end encrypted by Apple.
Export your complete database to JSON. Your data is never locked in.
Works completely without internet. Art fairs, private viewings, storage facilities.
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