Honestly, stumbling into Galerix Heart felt like finding a tool that actually gets what it's like to be a curator working in smaller, independent spaces — and I genuinely wasn't expecting that from a mobile app, like at all, because most of what I've tried before is either way too corporate and rigid or just a glorified notes app with a prettier icon, and Galerix Heart is neither of those things, which is refreshing and also a little surprising in the best way, so let me just talk through what I've been experiencing with it over the past few weeks,
the exhibitions management side is where I spend most of my time and it's honestly really well thought out — you can filter by status (Planning, Installation, Active, and I assume Completed though I haven't finished a full cycle yet), and each exhibition card gives you the date range, format, number of artists, number of works, and it's all laid out cleanly so you can glance at it without having to dig, and I genuinely appreciate that because when you're juggling multiple shows at once you don't want to tap six times to find out whether something is still in installation phase or has gone live,
the space management section is also lowkey one of my favorite parts — you can break a gallery down into zones, note restrictions, track which works have been placed where, and it handles multiple venues too so if you're working across a few different spaces (which I am) you can keep everything separated without things bleeding into each other, and the way it shows square meterage alongside descriptions and zone counts is a small detail but it actually matters when you're trying to figure out if a large-scale piece is going to physically fit somewhere,
the AI Curator Assistant is genuinely interesting and I've used it more than I expected to — it gives you quick prompts like lighting questions or opening night tips and you can also just type in your own thing and ask it to help you write a curator note or think through exhibition structure, and for someone who sometimes gets stuck staring at a blank text field trying to articulate why two works belong next to each other, having something to bounce ideas off of is actually useful in practice not just in theory,
where I have some real friction though is the visual design — the pink and purple gradient thing is consistent throughout and it's pretty, but there are moments where text on a similarly-toned background gets genuinely hard to read, and also the edit and delete buttons on the cards are small enough that I've accidentally tapped the wrong one more than once, which when you're managing real exhibition data is the kind of thing that makes your stomach drop a little, so I really do hope they look at contrast and touch target sizing in a future update,
overall though I keep coming back to it and using it as my actual working tool for a current show, which is probably the most honest endorsement I can give — it's not perfect and the UI polish could use another pass, but the core functionality is genuinely solid and the AI assistant adds something that I haven't seen in other curator-focused tools, so I'm cautiously optimistic about where this goes.