# HEAVYPAINT — user reviews > 74 indexed App Store user reviews of HEAVYPAINT by HEAVYPOLY, Inc., rated 4.00/5 from 64 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/heavypaint/id6654887306/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/heavypaint/id6654887306.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 40 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 9 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 7 ## What do users think of HEAVYPAINT? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Powerful brushes and tools - 👍 Intuitive and easy to use - 💡 Unique and distilled painting experience - 👍 Responsive and dedicated developer - 👍 Great community support **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and crashes - 🐛 Issues with saving and restoring purchases - 🐛 Inconsistent UI and missing features **Commonly reported bugs** - Gallery crashes - Artwork files not saving properly - Eyedropper tool not working as expected **Most requested features** - Improved layer management - More customization options - Better color controls and eyedropper tool ## Newest reviews (14 of 74) ### 2/5 — dear god *2026-08-06* i redownloaded this app just a few minutes ago because i missed the painting tools it had and theres a HUGE problem. i like to chicken scratch/go over one spot multiple times in my drawings and that for some reason activates the color picker?? and its so aggressive im like fighting with it the whole time and not only that but when i DEACTIVATE it it undoes my most recent line when i go to draw another or just completely obliterates my drawing. please please please fix it i really like the brushes but this is terrible ### 3/5 — Need to fix Timelapse *2026-06-12, version 3.3.301* Love the app but crashes and lost progress, broken features are getting in the way ### 2/5 — my favourite painting app but too buggy *2026-05-10, version 3.3.223* I love this up so much! there's something about the randomness that adds a much more natural feeling to painting. I really love how customisable the UI is, shrinking it down and making it as minimal as possible om ipad mini is great. unfortunately i cant recommend it until it receives a lot of bug fixes. I am constantly losing hours of progress due to random bugs that will wipe my layers or recent painting, and countless other little bugs that make it a frustrating experience. hoping for fixes soon. ### 4/5 — Awesome app, small bugs *2026-04-05, version 3.3.223* Great update with many new features. The brushes are still awesome. It’s a unique and worthwhile experience from a one time payment! That’s getting rarer and rarer. My only wish is that the timelapse feature would work. Only seems to load a black canvas so far… Otherwise so far, no major app breaking issues. Would recommend people to try it out! ### 2/5 — Great painting concepts, unusable app *2026-03-09* This was clearly made with love by someone who actually understands painting. Very unique features. I lost all of my work on a painting due to a software bug. I would give it 5 stars but the amount of bugs is shocking for a paid app. Can’t export or import projects. Can’t import reference images. Even just freezes up during normal use ### 3/5 — Was good now completely unusable *2026-01-27* With the last update I can use the software at all it just try’s to idrop constantly so it keeps ruining my color selection and brush, and there no way to turn it off. Just have it as a setting. please this was my favorite drawing software ### 3/5 — Neat, but janky *2025-08-29* I want to love this app, but I’ve never had a trouble-free session. Something always ends up corrupted, lost, pixelated, etc. I’m randomly logged out in the middle of creating, my pro purchase isn’t recognized, the in-app option to manage purchases only mentions subscriptions… I know this was made by artists, but it really needs some technical polish to even approach the usability of other apps. I’ve spent dozens of hours in HEAVYPAINT with essentially noting to show for it, because everything I’ve made has gotten screwed up by the program somehow. ### 2/5 — Horrible lagging, cute textured brushes *2025-08-18, version 3.1.61* Gallery function is basically unusable, constant glitches don’t let me access my previous works which is extremely upsetting. Undo often takes several tries to activate. Brush assortment is good ### 3/5 — Uh, it won’t even start up…? *2025-06-16, version 3.0.31* It’s just stuck on the hp logo ### 2/5 — Drawing Steps Lost — Please Fix This Critical Bug *2025-05-24* This is a great app with a lot of potential, but there’s a critical issue: the bugs can be quite frustrating. When I reopen the app after not using it for a while, parts of my drawing progress are often lost—some elements I’ve worked on just disappear. To prevent this, I’ve had to export my work frequently and re-import it as PNG or JPG files. However, doing so renders the layer functionality almost meaningless. I really hope this bug can be fixed as soon as possible. ### 3/5 — Gallery Glitch *2025-05-13* I want to love this app, but I can’t get the gallery to load consistently enough to make it worth the trouble to launch over Procreate. Overall, I love the painting engine and the tools included. Those are the main reasons I’d like to see the gallery fixed, so I can get in quick and play with the possibilities. ### 4/5 — Great app *2025-05-13, version 3.0.31* Just a few minor tweaks like resizing, you don’t have to resize every time you wanna create art should save your size your resize previously stuff like that ### 3/5 — I love it, but it is insanely laggy. *2025-04-21* I really love the style of brushes and the color options, but it is super buggy for me. I have had to restart the app multiple times due to it freezing or extreme input delay especially for the undo button. It is just a bit frustrating to the point of closing the app entirely when I am trying to complete a painting. Excellent program, just needs to fix some issues. ### 3/5 — i do not like this *2025-04-04, version 3.0.31* sign up to buy process ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Lost progress *2026-05-10, version 3.3.223* I had a lot of fun in this app until it decided to delete all my work when i tried to see the timelapse im really mad and dissapointed, not buying if it keeps having this issues ( even the autosaves were deleted) ### 1/5 — How to Export *2026-03-22* エクスポートできない。exportのfileとかいうのも見つからん。 ### 1/5 — many technical issues :/ *2026-01-07, version 3.2.75* the colour jitter is nice but using the app has been a nightmare. maybe it’s just not optimized for ipad but first it crashed and lost my canvases, after redownloading it started just deleting individual layers instead (usually the ones with the most rendering on them). not to mention while i’m painting, every time i switch to another app for a few seconds and come back, the app is unresponsive and i have to restart it. overall just a frustrating experience. its a shame, because i would have enjoyed it otherwise ### 1/5 — A lot of bugs, this new app works really bad *2025-12-02, version 3.2.75* I bought this app but I can’t enjoy drawing because brushes / interface always lagging. Don’t recommend to purchase this app, classic version works better. ### 1/5 — A great app gone wrong *2025-12-01, version 3.2.75* This used to be my favorite app, but the developer is all over the place. He has three different versions of this app combined into one, and he's working on all of them at the same time... and they're all broken. ### 1/5 — Paid for heavypaint classic, then locked out and forced to subscribe *2025-09-22, version 3.2.75* I want to love the application, but resent i paid for an application i can no longer effectively use without a subscription. I cannot in good faith give a positive review for this alone. ### 1/5 — Sync with your own cloud *2025-05-30* I want to use this and am not wanting to pay a subscription to sync files. Let me set my own cloud accounts for syncing. Don’t charge me every month for this feature. Or simply make it easier to save and open files again from different locations. I could care less if the video playback is there or not. ### 1/5 — Once I paid it doesn’t work *2025-04-07* I tinkered with it, seemed cool. Paid it money, and I can’t use it without an activation link. The code never came so I’m just stuck on a screen. Never had this issue with an IAP. This is $5 down the trash, don’t spend this money on drugs or crypto. ### 1/5 — Can’t restore *2025-03-31* It doesn’t allow me to restore easily enough. I deleted it and now I want it back on my phone, but I can’t do it. I looked at the FAQs, but they didn’t help. ### 1/5 — Na ja. *2025-03-10, version 3.0.31* Halbfertig. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love this app *2026-01-04* This app is a very streamlined and analog feeling design. I love the uniqueness of the tools/brushes that you get compared to other painting apps. So good for plein airs and painting studies. There are some bugs but the support system for reporting and fixing bugs feels very direct and responsive. Overall I love it. ### 5/5 — Thank you customer service! *2025-08-22* EDIT: App works flawlessly now! I’ve tried procreate, art studio pro, photoshop, krita, and paint tool sai, this app feels the best to paint in. Original: Spent an hour working on a piece. Decided I like the app and go to purchase. Error. Can’t purchase, please contact customer service. Then the app deletes a bunch of my progress. Thank you HEAVYPAINT, very cool. ### 5/5 — Stuck on verification for pro version but overall good app! *2025-05-20* Overall this is a really wonderful light and powerful painting app. Honestly it’s better than Procreate. But I had an issue with verification taking a long time to send for more than an hour. Still haven’t gotten the email. Update: After 2 days, I figured it probably just wasn’t working with outlook/hotmail emails, so I used my gmail instead but it won’t let me do the restore purchase since the email was under my hotmail. Could be a weird bug in the verification system. But overall it’s a good painting app. ### 5/5 — AMAZING *2025-05-19, version 3.0.31* I love the way the brushes look and I LOVE THE COLOUR JITTER SETTING ### 5/5 — Super App *2025-05-17, version 3.0.31* 5 Sterne und noch mehr… ### 5/5 — The new UI is good *2025-04-18, version 3.0.31* So far I love the new version. It has the same functionality as the older one, but the sad thing is that the app is not utilising double tap at all! if it was then it would have been super convenient for a procreate user like me :D ### 5/5 — Holy that’s a fun to use painting tool *2025-04-02* Saw the dev in a yt vid. This tool is great ### 5/5 — Perfect *2025-03-03, version 3.0.31* To me this is way better than procreate and photoshop, the best expressive art program yet imo ### 5/5 — Pure magic *2025-01-19* Heavypaint put the fun back into digital painting for me. It feels like the real deal, and looks like something novel and fresh. There’s magic going on under the hood to make it easy and fun to just open it up where ever you are and start playing with colour and light with none of the fuss! ### 5/5 — Favorite painting app *2024-11-28* This is my favorite painting app, but you have to approach with an open mind and some patience. This app is constantly being updated server-side by one guy, so things randomly don’t work correctly and new bugs pop up, but they’re fixed very quickly with new iterations. Painting-wise, there are tons of options, and I’m still experimenting and finding new things, and i have been using this for several months. The dedication and responsiveness from the dev is really great, and the community for this app is awesome. --- *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 2026-08-17.*