# Paint Retro — user reviews > 62 indexed App Store user reviews of Paint Retro by Uyen Nguyen Thi Kim, rated 5.00/5 from 1 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/paint-retro/id1619725004/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/paint-retro/id1619725004.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0 ## Is Paint Retro safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Paint Retro. ## Is Paint Retro legit? Paint Retro appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Paint Retro is 78 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Newest reviews (14 of 62) ### 4/5 — Broken *2026-10-31* The new version needs fixing. The app crashes as soon as I open it ### 3/5 — Why the hell did y’all do this? *2026-10-26* You changed the drawing menu this new update is horrible. I was way more comfortable with the other one. Please change this. It’s the way I make my art and post. ### 4/5 — Help *2026-10-24* How to enable show grid? ### 2/5 — Bad new format *2026-10-23* Change the format back pretty please ### 4/5 — SO janky i love it *2026-10-09* A little bit of a learning curve but soooo charming ### 3/5 — Fix *2026-10-06* Pretty awesome app but it’s extremely buggy ### 4/5 — great, but *2026-09-21* pencil seems to be broken, as you cannot erase or undo. ### 4/5 — Good but there’s some glitches *2026-09-13* I recently downloaded the game and it’s pretty good! But there’s some glitches to the app.i tried to use the bucket tool on my drawing but then it selected the wrong area,so i undid it and then the part that got the bucket thing just disappeared,so I tried redoing it and it still didn’t work. And the undo and redo buttons don’t work on the pencil. They only work on bucket,paint brush,and etc. please fix this next update. ### 3/5 — Deleted my artwork *2026-08-25* When it updated to this version it deleted my art from the old version ### 4/5 — Add Layers Please? *2026-08-05* It’s a nice premise of ms paint being portable but it would be really nice if there was a layer feature as I can’t find one on it. If there already is one then sorry! ### 3/5 — It’s descent app for goofing around *2026-07-13* If you don’t really don’t care that much about your drawings and are willing to redraw them then this is fine sense the drawings have been disappearing ### 1/5 — よくない *2026-03-28* mspaintのように手軽に描けるアプリが欲しかったので使えてありがたかったのですが、いきなりアップデートで仕様が変更されて過去のデータを見れなくなり書き味も全く求めていないものに変わりました。しかも広告まででてきてはっきり言って最悪です。 ### 1/5 — UI is baaaaaaaad *2026-03-26, version 2.2* So difficult to resize canvas or any image without default drawing on the sketch.Very frustrating user experience ### 1/5 — unballable (unbearable) *2026-03-07* It’s impossible to draw countryballs i tried to draw scared polandball with german reichtangle looking at it but when i was drawing polandball i tried click and it was a dot i guess this was just a experiment thats all ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Update was terrible *2026-10-28* App is now unusable and way more complicated after the new update. Please give an option to revert to the old version because the new version is unusable and way more complicated. ### 1/5 — Bad Update. *2026-10-21* This Update completely ruined this app in my opinion, the older format was so much better and nicer. All this did was overcomplicate things that were unneeded and heavily unnecessary. I downloaded this app so I could have a smooth, nice, simple and easy to get a hang of art app. Changes like these to apps are very unhealthy and make people not want to use it. Please revert it back to its previous state before this update. **Developer response:** We’re sorry you didn’t like the new update. We understand you prefer the old version, and we’re planning to release a new app with the old design. Thank you for your feedback and support! ### 1/5 — they updated it and removed all the charm, added in app purchases and loads of long ads. *2026-09-05* used to be a really cool port of ms paint and for some reason they changed all of it, made it worse and added ads. make it make sense.... devs if you see this just change it back. im like 90% sure i payed like £3 for this only for the ads to be added and then asking me to pay another £4 to remove them. such weird unnecessary behaviour. ### 1/5 — Actually trash *2026-09-05* Idk who made this garbage app but obviously they can’t do anything right in there life much less see hear or make a sentence actually the most worthless app ever made ### 1/5 — Buggy *2026-08-25* I wanted a good ms paint recreation for iPad, but this one immediately made me watch an ad in order to create a canvas, and the undo button stopped working within like four seconds. Don’t install until they fix this app ### 1/5 — Wut *2026-07-27, version 5* I clicked one back button twice and all my work across all paintings was deleted ### 1/5 — Apps decent ig just might sell information *2026-07-15* Like I said the apps decent but it increased my screen time to 6 hours even though I didn’t watch it due to ads I never watched in the middle of the night, this problem over occurred the night after I installed this app, so I guess that makes this app horrible, including that it’s awkward to use the brush and eraser tools (main features) just get ibis paint and pixel brushes. ### 1/5 — don’t download dude *2026-06-27, version 3* it’s so annoying how much it erases my whole drawing i spent like an hour on this one project and it just fully erased ### 1/5 — Needs fixing *2026-06-09* In the app the classic layout is available but when selected it doesn’t actually show up Instead a grey theme is applied No coloured buttons like it displays in the settings menu ### 1/5 — Приложение далеко от пеинта *2026-04-17* Пока не поменял тему не мог разобраться в инструментах. Кисть после перехода на ластик постоянно слетает, лассо кривое, выделение тоже криво. В это невозможно рисовать. + нельзя продолжить рисунок если не сохранил его в галерее ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — SOO CUTE BETTER THAN IBIS PAINT!! *2026-11-07* so i just ditched ibis paint and i was looking for a new drawing app and i found this and medi bang paint and when I tried this app i went to review a five star!! ⭐️ it makes my art better ngl : P **Developer response:** Awww, thank you so much!! 🥹💖 I'm so happy you're enjoying the app and that it helps make your art even better! Thank you for choosing my little app and for the wonderful 5-star review. ### 5/5 — Love it so far! *2026-10-22* I’ve been looking for something simple and easy to use. Similar to ms paint, and this is exaclty what i wanted! Bonus points for low volume of ads ### 5/5 — Doesn’t deserve the hate *2026-08-26* I think it is important to remember that MS paint was designed for PC, so the fact the developer made an app, that was supposed to be PC only to mobile with easy to understand controls is quite impressive. There is bugs (I think, I haven’t really experienced them) and it isn’t perfect but remember, Ms paint wasn’t supposed be on a touch screen! If you like MS paint and are on the go a lot without a laptop, get this. I recommend. It is good all things considered it being on a phone. ### 5/5 — Great app! *2026-08-13* It’s a lovely app! and great for drawing in a 2000’s Esq style! Just wish it had layers and more customization ### 5/5 — Five stars = amazing ! *2026-08-04* I absolutely love drawing on this app ### 5/5 — It’s Got Spirit *2026-04-02* It’s fun nostalgia! I don’t think it was ever meant as a serious painting app, but a throwback back to a simpler time is what this app offers ### 5/5 — Honestly I love it *2026-02-11* I’ve experienced 1-2 minor problems, but the fact that you can expand the canvas size is outstanding. Yes, it won’t save when you close the app but the save works if you do so before closing it. I Don’t really see any big problems whatsoever the app is amazing and works fine for me. ### 5/5 — MS paint helped me get into court *2026-01-28* Ms paint helped me watch a live public execution ❤️❤️❤️ ### 5/5 — Epic app *2025-05-14* I really like drawing with ms paint on my desk top, so having an ms paint port that I can use on mobile is hype, kinda wish I didn’t have to pay 5$ for it but oh well worth the price in my book. ### 5/5 — My dreams came true - MS PAINT for the iPad *2025-05-10* Developer, thank you so much for this gift… i hope you continue tweaking it as time goes on. It would be great if we could do tool short cuts like “E” for eraser or “P” for pencil, etc. Also including the choice to two-finger double tap for undo and the same for redo … like how the other painting apps are like. Please keep working on this it’s amazing! --- *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 2026-11-12.*