Paint 98 User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience71.9% of reviews
Neutral7.4% of reviews
Negative experience20.7% of reviews

~ Based on 270 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Paint 98 Safe?

Paint 98 appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Paint 98 is 78/100.

This assessment is based on 361 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.9/5.

Safety Analysis

71.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
7.1% of ratings suggest some concerns
21.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 351 App Store ratings for Paint 98.

Is Paint 98 Legit?

Paint 98 appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Paint 98 is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Great for Minecraft textures on the go

One of my hobbies is creating Minecraft textures and it’s this is the only app for mobile that allows me full control of my image sizes. It’s so easy to set you colors and go! 100% recommend!
Great for lots of other image editing the old fashioned way. Love it!

Data saving issues

Deleted something I was working on for six hours when it crashed.

Few added things would make it 5

If it had arrows and backfilled text boxes, it would be perfect.

Hate paint like it’s 1998 scam can’t even paint

I can’t even pay this is a little scam I give this one star I hate this game I can’t even like paint

Too Simplistic

This is a quick picture edit tool ... but, it is extremely frustrating to use. It takes hours to get used to since it is not intuitive at all. It also expects fine detail touch/mouse control which is impossible on a phone.

Kinda needs some clarity, also PLEASE ADD MORE CANVASES/ARTWORKS 😭😭😭😭🙏

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH, but I think it should be mentioned that to draw you have to move around the canvas when holding down a button like a mouse, and that if you don’t want to do that, you can toggle it to touch in settings (3 lines), (yes you still have to hold down the button). (I’ve grown fond of the drag canvas thingy tho)

Some things:
-Pls add gestures so I can undo easily :(
-add a quick toolbar option where all the tools are laid out (ex. Procreate, ibis Paint X, etc.)
-MORE ARTWORK SPACES PLS, POSSIBLY UNLIMITED, IT’S DRIVING ME CRAZY ;-; 😭😭

This app has great potential :)
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Drawing is not like msmpaint.

downloaded and used for 10 seconds because the way you have to draw in this app is to drag the canvas around a target point while holding a button in the corner. I tried changing the settings to touch drawing and nothing changed. It felt so wrong to draw like that, big turn off.

It is Paint 98!

Invest some time in getting to know the interface. Once you have it is everything that you would want it to be and probably still use MS Paint for on a PC. Simple and efficient.

Whoever came up with controls

Is a damn moron

Nostalgic

Don’t really ever go out of my way to review apps but this one is great, so basic and easy to use, hours of fun just like the good old days!

Good app

Paint well it’s like using a mouse

Great app, minor issues, but nothing awful!

I LOVE THIS APP!!! I've been using ms paint on my pc for a while now because I missed the feel of it, & this is a lovely emulation of it!

My only issue? The colour selector, it feels very clunky at times & editing the HSL can be very hit or miss, which makes it very difficult to do gradients or rendering as it often wont allow me to type in the correct numbers I need :[

This may be difficult to implement, but It'd be great for qol to have a bar beneath the usual preset colour selections that hues of the selected colour! The best example I can think of is Kritas "Wide Gamut Colour Selector"
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this is actually so good

1: theres no ads
2: no features locked behind paywalls (so its completely free)
3: easy to use and learn
4: fun and helpful




:)

This is actually 0 stars (in case it shows up as 5 stars

This is way more confusing than normal ms paint, not in the too many options way but in the I can’t use the app, this is horrible, do not download it. The pen draws very far away from your selection, and the main reason I can’t use this app is because you have to press on a right click option to draw.
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Basic functionality lacking

Cannot for the life of me figure out how to cut a piece of an image and paste somewhere else on the frame. Why?

Groovy

Very nice app. Still learning it on my iPad.

I’ve been waiting for this

Just need to say that sometimes we way over design things. Too many fancy things and not enough function. This has all the old paint function I need on my phone to do the basic edits that we need. Thank you!!

One gripe… please add a shift key so that we can lock the ratio of the shapes and selections, the degrees of the lines, or the movements of the selections. AND I don’t have the classic skew tool. Need that too plz.
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Garbage since new update

Rubbish!!! They have stopped it being able to edit photos by cropping and dragging boxes ABSOLUTELY USELESS NOW

canvas limit kinda sucks

this app made me like drawing digitally again and ive been able to get past the whole no layers thing but my only real problem is the fact there’s a canvas limit (?) after a certain point you cant make anymore new canvases and i don’t exactly wanna DELETE entirely finished works. maybe remove that? other than that the app is perfect in terms of what i was looking for (i only feel like drawing on mspaint like things/older drawing engines)
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I love it!!

It was a bit hard to understand at first (im on mobile) but I eventually got the hang of it and it’s really fun!!!!