# BrushForge — user reviews

> 3 indexed App Store user reviews of BrushForge by Bastiaan Mahieu, rated 4.40/5 from 12 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/brushforge/id6749896227/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/brushforge/id6749896227.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 8 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 0

## Most critical reviews (3 lowest-rated)

### 2/5 — Started great but bait and switch

*2025-12-15*

Started great. Was exactly what I needed to organize my models painting. But slowly more and more creeped behind a pay wall.

I get it, but it was pushed as an app that paid features were just a little better and cut ads. I guess they couldn’t motivate people to pay with what they had so they had to lock more stuff out.

**Developer response:** Hey, sorry to hear that, that’s definitely not the experience I was hoping for.
I tried to be as transparent as possible about what’s behind the paywall: all features are available for free, but with usage limits.
The $15 lifetime option was meant to be a fair one-time price, considering the time and personal costs that went into building and maintaining the app. You can always contact me if you have more feedback, again sorry for this.

### 4/5 — Nice modern app for managing paints

*2026-07-11*

I like this app overall; it feels modern and clean, but still needs more polish to catch the small issues. Not sure I care or have any use for the AI tools since based on my experience it’s not very accurate in recognizing your paints in a picture. I also noticed the database of paints has some errors in it. So overall, I like this app and purchased it to support the dev, but it needs a bit more work to fix the bugs

### 5/5 — AWESOME!!

*2025-10-02*

This is exactly what I needed in my life to keep track of paints that I own and to keep record of what paints I used for different projects. The dev for this is amazing as I submitted some feedback and it was actually implemented shortly after! Going to be using this app for all of my painting sessions!

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