Best Artist Tools alternatives: apps like Artist Tools

Values at Play

Seeing Values in Art

Free

This app helps users practice identifying and analyzing values in art. It offers tools to create value studies, inspect specific color values, and find areas matching a chosen value. Users can import their own images for practice.

Mix Paint

Perfect color, every time.

Free

This app assists artists in precisely mixing paint colors. It features a visual and photo-based color picker, an intelligent recipe generator for exact mixing ratios, and the ability to create and save custom palettes and recipes.

Mixable - Paint Mixing Guide

Watercolor, Acrylic & Oil

Free

This app helps artists mix custom paint colors using the paints they already own. It provides precise mixing ratios for watercolor, acrylic, and oil paints, with options to pick target colors from photos or a color wheel.

Value Study: art reference

Analyze light and shadow

Free

This app helps artists improve their skills by analyzing light and shadow in reference images. It allows users to break down tones step-by-step, from simple black and white to more complex value ranges, aiding in the understanding of depth and form. It's a tool to enhance traditional art studies.

Mono Lab

Experiment in black and white.

$4.99

Explore creative image manipulation with a focus on black and white effects. This app offers a wide range of tools for distortion, texture, and structural changes, allowing for unique artistic experimentation.

Color Study: Simplify Painting

Simplify color, value & shape

Free

This app helps artists simplify images into essential shapes and colors for study. It provides tools for accurate color matching, paint mixing guidance, and detailed analysis of value, saturation, and color codes. Advanced features for deeper analysis and paint mixing are available via subscription.