# Paint 98 — user reviews > 270 indexed App Store user reviews of Paint 98 by Casl Media LLC, rated 3.91/5 from 361 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/paint-98/id1077934350/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/paint-98/id1077934350.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 194 · 4★ 57 · 3★ 25 · 2★ 14 · 1★ 61 ## What do users think of Paint 98? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Nostalgic MS Paint feel - 👍 Simple and straightforward UI - 💡 Useful for quick edits and doodles - 🎨 Good for pixel art and sketching - 🆓 Completely free with no ads **Cons** - 🐛 Buggy canvas resizing and text input - 🔀 Confusing mouse/touch controls - 🔍 Lack of advanced features like layers - 🔍 Limited canvas size and export options - 🔍 Undo/redo buttons hidden in settings **Commonly reported bugs** - Canvas randomly resets when zooming - Text input not working for some users - Crashes when importing large images **Most requested features** - Add layers and transparency support - Improve text tool and canvas resizing - Provide more intuitive mouse/touch controls - Allow exporting at higher resolutions - Add undo/redo buttons to main UI ## Newest reviews (10 of 270) ### 4/5 — Few added things would make it 5 *2026-05-09, version 0.0.17* If it had arrows and backfilled text boxes, it would be perfect. ### 4/5 — Kinda needs some clarity, also PLEASE ADD MORE CANVASES/ARTWORKS 😭😭😭😭🙏 *2026-04-06, version 0.0.17* 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 :) ### 4/5 — Great app, minor issues, but nothing awful! *2026-01-05, version 0.0.17* 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" ### 4/5 — canvas limit kinda sucks *2025-12-08, version 0.0.16* 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) ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-08-25, version 0.0.16* Exactly what you would expect. Simple, clean, therapeutic and nostalgic! No ads, no hidden fees, just perfect ### 5/5 — Feels normal to me *2025-08-18, version 0.0.16* People might not understand why this is good but it is. It’s gonna be tricky to use, it always has been. ### 5/5 — It worked *2025-07-17, version 0.0.16* I needed a recreation of MS paint and this app delivered. Appreciated. ### 4/5 — It is ok but I need stuff *2025-06-05, version 0.0.16* So I really like this app. It’s the best mspaint like app! But I need the text to work it keeps striking everything even when off ### 5/5 — Wow! *2025-04-30, version 0.0.16* I’m really impressed! So grateful for whoever made this app! So helpful! I used to budget photo editing using paint. Still one of the only ways I know how to… thank you for this app! ### 4/5 — Almost perfect for me *2025-04-27, version 0.0.16* I really enjoy what I can do with this app. My only complaint is not being able to replicate a color from a section of the current image… ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Data saving issues *2026-05-11, version 0.0.17* Deleted something I was working on for six hours when it crashed. ### 1/5 — Hate paint like it’s 1998 scam can’t even paint *2026-05-07, version 0.0.17* 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 ### 1/5 — Too Simplistic *2026-04-11, version 0.0.17* 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. ### 1/5 — Drawing is not like msmpaint. *2026-03-30, version 0.0.17* 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. ### 1/5 — Whoever came up with controls *2026-02-07, version 0.0.17* Is a damn moron ### 1/5 — This is actually 0 stars (in case it shows up as 5 stars *2025-12-26, version 0.0.17* 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. ### 1/5 — Basic functionality lacking *2025-12-23, version 0.0.17* Cannot for the life of me figure out how to cut a piece of an image and paste somewhere else on the frame. Why? ### 1/5 — Garbage since new update *2025-12-09, version 0.0.16* Rubbish!!! They have stopped it being able to edit photos by cropping and dragging boxes ABSOLUTELY USELESS NOW ### 1/5 — Looks nice, impossible to use. *2025-06-24, version 0.0.16* Most unintuitive user interface I’ve ever seen. ### 1/5 — Hard, almost impossible to control *2025-06-19, version 0.0.16* I feel like this was originally a computer app, And it was not converted well into a phone app, You have to use computer mouse controls, which is not compatible with phone controls, Please fix the controls and improve on your app. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great for Minecraft textures on the go *2026-05-18, version 0.0.17* 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! ### 5/5 — It is Paint 98! *2026-03-25, version 0.0.17* 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. ### 5/5 — Nostalgic *2026-01-27, version 0.0.17* 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! ### 5/5 — Good app *2026-01-18, version 0.0.17* Paint well it’s like using a mouse ### 5/5 — this is actually so good *2025-12-28, version 0.0.17* 1: theres no ads 2: no features locked behind paywalls (so its completely free) 3: easy to use and learn 4: fun and helpful :) ### 5/5 — Groovy *2025-12-17, version 0.0.16* Very nice app. Still learning it on my iPad. ### 5/5 — I’ve been waiting for this *2025-12-15, version 0.0.16* 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. ### 5/5 — I love it!! *2025-11-15, version 0.0.16* 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!!!! ### 5/5 — I’ve been waiting for this *2025-11-03, version 0.0.16* 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. ### 5/5 — made with phones in mind *2025-10-05, version 0.0.16* i didn't live in 1998, i'm 17 as of 2025, but this definitely captures the aesthetic i've seen consistently associated with old Microsoft paint. Smooth but pixelated, definitely has its own charm. as for using the app, there's definitely a learning curve that i had to figure out myself, but after learning its quirks, i love it. it feels properly made for a phone, and i love that. most drawing apps i feel are meant for use on an ipad with an apple pencil, but i don't have all that, im just trying to make some stuff more casually, and this is great for that. would def recommend --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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