# Head Study — user reviews > 27 indexed App Store user reviews of Head Study by Stephen Bauman Artwork, rated 4.80/5 from 34 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/head-study/id1623609206/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/head-study/id1623609206.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 31 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (7 of 27) ### 5/5 — All-in-one Portrait tool *2023-08-06* This is what you’ll need to get the perfect angle, lights and background reference for your portraits. All views are available; skull, mannequin, muscle, and head with plenty of planes. Definitely a work of art and care for the art community. I hope to see more of this app in the future. Maybe a female head too? Or young people? Perhaps full body? Thank you for this app. It’s such a game changer.❤️ ### 5/5 — Incredible app- please add a wolf/cat skull/constructions if you have the time *2023-05-01* It’s a great app, worth the money ### 5/5 — Necessary app for portraits *2023-04-21* The features in this app save you hours, and hours of tedious reference gathering for light options. If you combine the primary and secondary light sources in the same angle, you get a flashlight in your face effect. This app even nailed different colors for primary and secondary lighting. This app changes everything for me when it comes to portraits. ### 5/5 — Indispensable Reference for Portraiture… *2023-04-13* This elegant little app is an indispensable reference for anyone learning portraiture and studying the structure of the head. The user is able to intuitively orient the view to any perspective, light the subject however they’d like, and then toggle between the various construction states of the head: planes of the head, skull, and écorché. I’m looking forward to many hours studying and drawing from this. ### 5/5 — Great! *2023-04-12* Fantastic tool for artists, especially for portraiture. ### 5/5 — Iphone 14 promax, purchased the app and it will not download onto my phone😳 *2023-04-11* Please advise? ### 5/5 — Great practice *2023-04-10* Really enjoy the flexibility of this app - the possibilities seen endless! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Didn’t get female after in app purchase. *2026-04-19* I wanted to use this app. Keep getting your website and no support for app purchased female model in app purchase did not load. Tried to contact Apple and says can’t advise because still pending?? ### 1/5 — Blank screen on update? *2025-12-08* This app was good but I updated it and all I now get is a blank screen. I’ve rebooted (iPad pro 2) but it’s the same. There’s nowhere to go to report an issue. Beware….don't update. ### 1/5 — 不能用 *2025-10-16* 打不开啊 ### 1/5 — Locks up and there’s nothing I can do about it *2025-09-04* Fastest $12.99 I’ve ever done. Opens up on the iPad but that’s all it does. Can’t change anything, not the lighting , not the position of the one model head I have access to, nothing. Live and learn ### 3/5 — 用不了了，我的六十八块啊 *2025-12-09* 为啥呀 ### 3/5 — Female head missing *2023-08-31* So the app itself is pretty good and helpful, but I’m really missing a female reference 3D model. It’s actually really confusing to me how you could miss such an important asset for artists, male and female facial structures are very different! ### 4/5 — Great app with one-time purchase *2026-05-26* This is super useful as a lighting reference for making comics, which I do. Can’t thank you enough for creating it. My only gripe is that it would be great to have something for children - like a 5-7 years old? Feels like that’s missing. Even an age slider perhaps? That would be amazing. Also maybe another reference with realistic, smooth surface skin - and eventually something for hands? ### 4/5 — Female Head *2025-09-07* I enjoy using the app but please develop a female head to accompany the male one ### 4/5 — No Split View *2025-01-02* Does what it says. Would love to have the app Split View compatible for my iPad. ### 4/5 — Really great, but… *2023-04-13* The lack of split view on ipad kind of defeats the purpose for me using it. I get their are other methods for displaying reference, but being able to edit and change the model while having Procreate open would be ideal. Overall great recourse, just needs some ironing out as far as accessibly and flush features go. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Brilliant app for artists *2025-11-21* One of the most useful apps for artists - especially if you are a portrait artist or learning to draw. ### 5/5 — Exceptional *2025-05-16* An incredible and vital tool for anyone who wants to understand portraiture or the basic principles of drawing. ### 5/5 — Phenomenal *2025-02-08* This app is worth it ### 5/5 — Its an amazing app *2025-01-24* The only thing i wish if you had a more feminine face or a face with softer features to help with that. Now i understand that in theory the planes of the face should be similar but I can’t help what i want. Great app and I won’t dock it for not including things it didn’t it didn’t advertise ### 5/5 — Very easy in use, yet infinite options *2024-11-15* I love that it offers infinite adjustments for the lighting and background, yet the app itself is really straightforward in use. It is great that you can instantly switch between the skull, muscle structure, planes in the same position and the same light parameters. Very practical, perfect! Would love to get a female head like this as well. ### 5/5 — Simple, elegant, almost perfect! *2024-05-28* Love Stephen’s art, videos, instruction, and this app! Such a simple, elegant interface. My only request would be a way to load my own models. There are times when I want a simpler planar model of a head, one with female proportions, or even something non non-human. Being able to utilize this elegant interface with my own meshes would be amazing. Assuming the in the app are a standard format like OBJ or glTF, I hope think this could be a fairly simple update. Regardless, thanks for the amazing app! ### 5/5 — Simple, elegant, essential study tool! *2024-05-28* Love Stephen’s art, videos, instruction, and this app! Such a simple, elegant interface. My only gripe: no way to load my own models. There are times when I want a simpler planar model, a head with female proportions, or something non-human. Being able to utilize this elegant interface with my own meshes would be amazing. Assuming the app uses a standard format like OBJ or glTF, I'm hoping this is fairly simple update. ### 5/5 — Key difference makes this better *2024-05-09* It’s possible to have the reference looking up or down, in profile, with the head tilted off axis. This isn’t possible with the other 3D modeling references I’ve tried (including the app I paid 30 bucks for). ### 5/5 — Thank you for 1 time fee and no email needed! *2024-04-12* Its refreshing to just be able to buy an app at a reasonable price without all he hassle of creating an account, saving a new password and having to deal with future spam. The app is great, if you come out with a female version I will buy that too ### 5/5 — Very simple yet well executed app. *2024-04-08* Nothing too flashy about this app, it’s only got a handful of head models but they are very well rendered head models, especially the simplified plane head. Just needs an export to image option. Overall, pretty good. --- *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 2026-09-01.*