Color Study Reviews: Is It Legit?

Name: Color Study: Simplify Painting
Rating: 4.86034 (580 reviews)

Color Study: Simplify Painting

BrushLabs LLC

🔧 Utilities

🎨 Graphics & Design

Customer Experience

Positive experience87.1% of reviews

Neutral7.1% of reviews

Negative experience5.7% of reviews

~ Based on 70 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Color Study Safe?

Color Study: Simplify Painting appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Color Study is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 580 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.

Safety Analysis

97.4% of ratings point to a safe experience

1.0% of ratings suggest some concerns

1.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 576 App Store ratings for Color Study.

Is Color Study Legit?

Color Study: Simplify Painting appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Color Study is 63/100.

Based on 63 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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Better than photoshop

I used to use photoshop to help me isolate colors, shapes and values, but this app does all that and provides additional tools specifically for painters by using actual paint brands and their colors to guide your pallet and mixing recipes. Also it’s much cheaper! It’s such a valuable tool.

KKateart22

10 days ago

Brilliant app

So useful. Have learned so much in the first hour of using this app

LLizacee

15 days ago

Wow

Honestly just a really phenomenal app for artists. Novice or professional, we all benefit. Really just a phenomenal app. It’s been a long time since I bothered to rate an app in the App Store. Typically they’re all the same- you download it, realize there are a bunch of in app purchases, typically riddled with ads, along with annoying pop up ads, then you quickly delete it. This app is a much different experience. Truly a breath of fresh air.

PPieceofdri3434

17 days ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much. Your experience with the app, and appreciating the real depth of features is exactly what I've tried to achieve. Thanks for recognizing that and reviewing!

Not a bad start- will revisit

Not a bad start to a really useful app. They need to *drastically* increase their available pigments for setting up pallets. I paint with pretty much all Daniel smith paints and having to find the W&N analogue is ok, but not a perfect way to do it. I do like that it incorporates water as the agent for lightness unlike a bunch of other apps.

DDaniel.mcgregor

17 days ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the review and feedback! That's fair feedback on the available paints. I'm happy to say that I've just added 100+ Daniel Smith paints to the catalog (version 2.0.13). If you get a chance to try it out -- let me know what you think!

Fantastic app

This app does everything I need to learn and continue to develop with oil painting, all within one app. It's extremely helpful and lots of fun to use and gets me painting more, which is always a good idea! Clearly developed by someone who knows exactly what painters need. I believe it would be an incredibly useful tool for artists of all levels. Highly and unconditionally recommended. Very happy I found it.

SSlmalc

a month ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much! Really cool to hear it is getting you painting more -- that is a great outcome. Appreciate you recognizing the design of features tailored for what painters really need. Happy painting!

Good tool

I saw this app on social media and thought it looked interesting. I decided to buy it because I was starting a very large painting and thought the app could help with the underpainting. And it did. I like the simplified image and the color swatches.

Ssandysibs

a month ago

Response from developer

Thanks a lot for reviewing! Glad it helped with simplifying the image for your underpainting.

Génial

Vraiment très pratique. Ça vaut vraiment la peine.

RRoueli

a month ago

Response from developer

Merci beaucoup pour votre avis ! Nous sommes ravis que vous trouviez l’application utile !

Usefull

Great app

DDoyxi

a month ago

Response from developer

Thank you!

Version 2.0.12 iPad vs iPhone non identiques

Sur iPad recette seule
Sur iPhone 2 choix de recettes

Yyjyhchi

a month ago

Outstanding!

This is by far the best painting app that I’ve ever used!! It’s a must for artists.
Updated: just when I thought it couldn’t get any better it did!!

IIceehott

2 months ago

Response from developer

Appreciate that! Humbled to hear you consider it the best painting app -- thank you!

Time saver

Cuts your time to a minimum on preparation and transformative for ideas and use drawing facility. It’s a game changer.

FBFlossy bottom

2 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much for the review. Happy it is helping save some time with the ideas and prep work!

Very cool, would use, but for a one-time purchase not a subscription

The app is very cool, I think I would find it very useful, and I can see how it’d improve my painting especially the value and simplification modes.

But I don’t want a subscription :-(

Wwolfe.zach

2 months ago

Love it!!! Please mor oil brands for a pallet!

I’m absolutely in love with this app. It’s such a valuable and inspiring tool for artists, whether they’re just starting out or already working professionally.
I would love to know if you’re planning to expand the oil paint palette in the future and include brands such as Old Holland, Williamsburg, Michael Harding, Rembrandt, Charvin, and Rublev. That would make an already wonderful app even more useful for painters.

EEugeniya69

2 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much! I loved this review and your enthusiasm -- made my day! Happy it is helping save time, even for a professional artist. Grateful for your support and being a part of this.

SUB REQUIRED

Finally a proper attempt at this, but eww - requires subscription to do anything useful for a painter. Also how do a few pigment lists add up to 200MB; I shudder to look under the hood.

Iislandlab

2 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the review and your feedback! All image processing happens on the device in order to keep your images private -- which is why the package ends up being larger.

I usually don’t write reviews

But this app has seriously improved my painting. Only
note ( and I don’t think this is the apps fault ) is that although it has a vast library of paint colors ( I work in oil ) , some are not there. This is to be expected, I assume there is just such a vast variety of color out there that it’s impossible to capture everything (looking at you turquoise cobolt). Easy solution is to find the closest color to that in which is missing. Would be cool if you can add color to the library yourself, maybe this already is a feature that I have not discovered yet.

This app fills that gap I have that would have most likely been filled with years of formal training. Also the yearly subscription fee of $25 is kind of a steal, if you’re using as I do. Really great, one of the few instances an ad got me and I was impressed.

Jjoejibeanz

2 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks so much for taking the time to review -- really appreciate it! Thanks also for the feedback on the paint colors. We are continuing to add to the paint library. I will check into turquoise cobalt :).

amazing app

this app is amazing I have been looking for a app like this for so long. This has improved my painting journey.

Nnana123nana198

2 months ago

Great app

I love the functionality-really useful tool -Thankyou
Great value !!

G-Great system -security

2 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you -- much appreciated!

Just Wow

Head and shoulders above all other apps of this type and fully functional without any required paid upgrades. So quick to do something that I used to need photoshop for!

AJAce Justin

2 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you! Yes, I am trying to pack in the high quality features and continue to improve the app. Glad it is helping you get some things done more quickly!

Amazing!

I don’t generally leave reviews, but I wanted you to know how incredibly helpful the app is-and to thank you for your YouTube video walk-throughs!!! INCREDIBLE!

MMixedMediaArtNoob

2 months ago

I love but add more paint brands

The app is so so great, the only thing i wish is that there were more paint brands and colours on the pallette part, it makes it difficult to use the mixing feature

EEmc14!!

2 months ago