# Art App - ClearPainting Free — user reviews > 96 indexed App Store user reviews of Art App by Digital Brainwash, rated 2.37/5 from 19 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/art-app-clearpainting-free/id427520489/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/art-app-clearpainting-free/id427520489.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 11 ## What do users think of Art App? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 👍 Fun for drawing and doodling - 👍 Easy to use for beginners - 👍 Good for notes and quick sketches - 👍 Creative outlet for all ages - 👍 Useful for making background pictures - 👍 Satisfying to use - 👍 Good for coloring photos - 👍 Handy drawing app - 👍 Works well on small screens **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes frequently - 🐛 App won't open - 🐛 Closes immediately upon opening - 🐛 Low quality and limited options - 🐛 Horrible layout - 🐛 Can't change canvas size - 🐛 Brushes and colors are limited - 🐛 Colors don't layer well - 🐛 App is too elementary for serious artists - 🐛 "Shadow thing" when coloring - 🐛 Colors are not the best - 🐛 Stretches image automatically - 🐛 Buggy on older iOS versions - 🐛 Developer website doesn't exist - 🐛 No way to get help **Commonly reported bugs** - App won't open - App crashes on startup - App closes immediately after opening - App crashes after a few strokes - App crashes when selecting a background - App crashes when taking pictures (iOS 6) - Screen goes black when opening - App crashes on iOS **Most requested features** - Zoom in feature - Ability to adjust hue of colors - Undo further back button - Redo button - Option to zoom in and out - Remove adverts (paid option) - More colors and brushes - More tools ## Newest reviews (13 of 96) ### 2/5 — Not that good *2020-12-18, version 2.0* I find this good for 4 year old but if your over 10 I don’t recommend I was testing free art apps and this app was the worst, it kept crashing and the lay out was horrible. You can’t change the canvas size and the brush type (from what I know I could barely use the app because it kept crashing) other than that it’s for 4 year olds as stated from the age rating. Either way I don’t recommend, you can find better art apps for the same price. ### 1/5 — Horrible! *2018-05-30* I can't write an accurate review bc I never got the stupid app to open. It crashed immediately. I deleted and reinstalled and it did the same thing. Waste of time. ### 1/5 — WHAT? *2018-05-28, version 2.0* Won’t even open 😡 ### 1/5 — Bad Quality *2018-05-26* It wouldn’t let me get in the app. As soon as I open the app it just kicks me out of the app. I even deleted the app and reinstalled it but still can’t use it. Tried refreshing my iPhone and I still can’t use the app. One of my friends got the app to test it out so I asked them if it works on their phone and they said “yeah it works but don’t really like the app” so I tried out the app on their phone and it’s really low quality. You can barely make anything good out of this app. Not a lot of choices of paint brushes and colors and I wouldn’t really recommend this app. ### 1/5 — App used to work *2018-05-12* Now it just opens and immediately closes. I am on an iPhone 6 Plus with up to date iOS ### 1/5 — Wouldn't work at all *2018-02-04* The app would open and then just close by itself before I could even do anything. I deleted it and reinstalled it and it did the same thing. ### 1/5 — Worst *2017-05-06, version 2.0* Worst ### 1/5 — horrible *2016-12-19* i thought this would be a nice painting app but it is horrible. low quality. not very many settings. i would not recommend ### 3/5 — Needs something *2015-06-02* This app seriously needs to be able to zoom in on a photo for better detail and precision ### 3/5 — Almost right *2014-10-12* I wanted to use this to colorize photos. The ability to make colors transparent and the eraser make this work nicely. I also had a stretching problem, until I turned my ipad to portrait (vertical instead of horizontal). Solved the problem. However, the lack of control of the colors is a problem. If you click green, you get that one green. If I could adjust the hue, it would make it more useful and it would get 4 stars. I'd even pay $1 for it then. Tip: when making small adjustments to a photo, save now and then. Then open the saved photo to continue without risking accidently messing up previous work. ### 4/5 — It's Okay. *2014-09-09* It's a great app, but wasn't what I was looking for. But overall, I love it. (maybe you should add a zoom in feature) ### 3/5 — okay but *2014-07-19, version 1.80* this is is okay, does what i was looking for in other apps but couldn't find. i just wish it wouldn't automatically stretch out the image you were coloring. ### 3/5 — Could be better *2013-05-30* It's a great app I really enjoy it, however, it could use a undo further back button and a redo button. Colors seem to over layer bad, wish they would stay same opacity and darken with manual opacity changes. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — would give negative stars *2021-08-12, version 2.0* LOL IT WONT EVEN OPEN!!!!!!??????!!!!!???????!!?!! ### 1/5 — Just ew *2020-10-04, version 2.0* I can’t even play the app and just wile I’m writing this it’s making lots of mis mistakes so I really don’t recommend getting this app trust me there are not many other bad comments but if your getting this app and don’t believe me and it doesn’t work then reply to me and say I’m right ### 1/5 — ITS A BAD GAME *2020-06-07, version 2.0* IT WON’T OPEN IM SO MAD ITS A FLICH SO I RECERMEND U DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS GAME OR U WILL BE MAD LIKE ME ### 1/5 — Trash *2020-05-02, version 2.0* This app sucks i can't even get into it without it crashing it needs to get fixed ### 1/5 — Useless *2019-12-25, version 2.0* This does not even load - just makes a 2 second appearance and disappears again. ### 1/5 — Couldn’t even get in the app - StarryNite *2019-12-23* As soon as I clicked the app it let me in but the moment I did 1 or 2 strokes it would automatically close the app! Please fix this bug! ### 1/5 — Crashes *2019-03-26, version 2.0* Crashes on start up. ### 1/5 — Useless *2018-12-23, version 2.0* App doesn’t work at all. Simply closes down immediately you open it. Website of developer doesn’t exist. No way of getting help. Assume they’ve gone out of business. ### 1/5 — Don’t get *2018-09-29* It doesn’t let me in the app and it closes right when you get there i hate it so much ### 1/5 — Terrible *2018-07-04, version 2.0* This sucks, the game crashes and deletes every time i try to select a background DO NOT DOWNLOAD ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fun *2014-05-13, version 1.80* Good fun, limited only by ones imagination ### 5/5 — Great App👍 *2013-12-09, version 1.70* Easy to use. However, there needs to be the option to zoom in and out and I would pay to take off the adverts!! ### 5/5 — Nice app *2013-08-21, version 1.70* Nice and handy drawing app! Has all the things I need! ### 5/5 — Awesome *2013-08-21, version 1.70* Nice drawing app!! 5 stars!! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 👍 ### 5/5 — O/O *2013-03-20, version 1.69* This is way more satisfying than a game. Thank you. ### 5/5 — Art app is great, I love to draw and doodle *2013-02-12, version 1.68* I make useful Notes cool background pics I love it!!!! ### 5/5 — Amazing *2013-01-25, version 1.68* I love this app I love drawing and doodling so it's perfect for me ### 5/5 — Drawing *2013-01-23, version 1.68* This game is fun because I love to draw and I am a great artist.That is one thing I want to be when I grow up,an artist.Art rocks. ### 5/5 — Art *2013-01-22, version 1.68* Very good art app ### 5/5 — It's fun *2013-01-10, version 1.65* I luv it --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*