# Painting Mirror – Art Studio — Drawing & Illustration Tool

> Drawing & Illustration Tool (iPhone/iPad app by Nice Software AS.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/painting-mirror-art-studio/id6769758248 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Nice Software AS](https://appshunter.io/developer/1809667950)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16 · 4 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-20
- Data updated: 2026-08-22
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/painting-mirror-art-studio/id6769758248/reviews.md

## What is Painting Mirror?

Painting Mirror: The Studio in Your Pocket

Flip, check, and analyze your work in real time. Painting Mirror combines a live mirrored view, professional composition guides, and color analysis tools - everything painters use to catch proportion errors, judge tone, and balance color, all from your iPhone or iPad.

For painters, illustrators, and artists who sketch and paint traditionally. No subscriptions. Free core features, optional studio access for advanced tools.

Why Artists Love It
Traditional artists know the power of flipping their work to catch errors the eye overlooks. Painting Mirror gives you that flip instantly, from any angle. But it goes further: overlay golden ratio spirals, grids, and composition guides to refine placement. Grayscale mode strips color to judge values alone. Step Back scales your entire composition to see it from across the room. Temperature Map exaggerates warm and cool to diagnose color temperature problems in a glance. And Value Picker samples any point to read its exact tone on a 1-10 scale - no guesswork, just precision.

Core Features (Free)
Live mirror flip - instantly reverse your view to spot proportion errors
Crop frame for composition checking
Rule of thirds, grid, and classic armature overlay options
Full-screen reference capture and side-by-side comparison
All overlays scale and rotate with your device

Studio Access Features (Trial or Subscription)
Black Mirror: Smoked-glass tone-only view - cut color, judge shape and value
Grayscale: Strip all color to read light and dark structure
Step Back: Scale your work down to see it from across the room
Blur (Fog): Dissolve detail to find your largest shapes and edges
Temperature Map: Exaggerate warm and cool - read color balance at a glance (NEW)
Value Picker: Hold and drag to sample any point; read its tone on a 1-10 value scale (NEW)
Critique Delay: Brief pause between painting and judging for fresher eyes
Expanded mode strip: All tools in one row, any orientation
Study capture: Save reference states for side-by-side before and after comparison


Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pro Monthly | $2.99 | per month |
| Pro Yearly | $9.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Permanent Studio License | $12.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.1.2 — 2026-08-19

Fixed: screen no longer freezes after completing a purchase. Fixed: switching away from Black Mirror is now smooth. Temperature Map and filter captures now save the processed image, not the raw camera frame.

### 1.1.1 — 2026-08-10

TRUE GOLDEN RATIO SPIRAL (Rebuilt) The golden ratio isn't an approximation. We rebuilt the spiral to use phi (1.618...) to full precision, recursively subdividing golden rectangles into progressively smaller squares with perfectly continuous arcs. Sharp on any device and aspect ratio - from iPad to phone. Four orientations to tap through. Never stretches, always crops clean.

VALUE PICKER TOOL (New) Hold and drag on the live preview to sample color. Reads exact tone on a 1-10 value scale (Atelier or Munsell - choose in settings). Shows sampled RGB and CIE L* (perceptually uniform lightness). Floating readout card with grayscale swatch. Studio feature.

TEMPERATURE MAP (New) Pushes warm tones toward orange-red, cool tones toward blue-cyan. Exaggeration cuts through ambient color to diagnose temperature balance. One tap to toggle intensity slider - perfect for color-temp diagnosis in seconds. Studio feature.

BUG FIXES

Fixed gesture on value picker hold - now reliably activates on long-press
Black Mirror capture now color-matched to live preview
Step Back reworked with smooth ease-in and ease-out transitions
Login flow streamlined, permission prompts clearer
Fixed camera freeze under buffer exhaustion

### 1.1 — 2026-07-08

UI fixes and new logo

### 1.0 — 2026-06-21

No release notes.

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All apps by Nice Software AS: https://appshunter.io/developer/1809667950

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