# PaintMix — Paint Mixing Studio — Color mixer, palette & recipes

> Color mixer, palette & recipes (iPhone/iPad app by Mark Bickenbach.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/paintmix-paint-mixing-studio/id6814552088 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Mark Bickenbach](https://appshunter.io/developer/6814552090)
- Category: Graphics & Design
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 4 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-10
- Data updated: 2026-10-13

## What is PaintMix?

ee a color you love? PaintMix turns it into paint on your palette —
or the right pencil in your hand.

SUBJECT — Load any photo, rotate and crop it, and pick any pixel with
the crosshair: a named color match with a ΔE accuracy score, ready to
mix.

PALETTE — Build the palette before you touch a brush: the fewest tubes
that can mix your picture's shapes, chosen from YOUR paints. See how
much of each to squeeze out (blob area = amount), then a mixing chart
for every shape. Save palettes by name — one for portraits, one for
landscapes — or photograph the paint already on your desk and mix from
those exact colors.

PAINT — Your reference reduced to flat values or colors, ready to
block in. A transfer grid, pinch-zoom, and touch any shape to find its
color. Then photograph your actual canvas, line up its drawn grid, and
get an honest cell-by-cell review: "B2 — too warm, a touch light."
Lighting is absorbed first, and unpainted canvas is never counted
against you.

MIX — Real recipes with sliders that always total 100 and a live ΔE
readout. Recipes come from your laid-out palette; when it can't reach
a color, PaintMix suggests the one tube from your library that closes
the gap.

PENCILS & MARKERS — Flip one switch and the studio changes: closest
pencil matches, two-color layering in the right order (lighter first),
and pressure guidance — a pencil held lightly is a tint of itself.
Colored-pencil and marker ranges included.

MY LIBRARY — Mark the tubes, pencils, and markers you own; everything
draws from your shelf, not a catalog. 13,000+ colors across 130 real
product lines — Winsor & Newton, Golden, Liquitex, Schmincke, Daniel
Smith, Prismacolor, Faber-Castell, Copic, Ohuhu and more — plus custom
colors for anything we missed.

SAVE — Keep the mixes and palettes that worked; reload them intact.

Built on real color science: CIEDE2000 difference, spectral
Kubelka-Munk mixing (blue + yellow makes green, like actual paint),
and Display P3 sampling.

## Is PaintMix safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess PaintMix.

## Is PaintMix legit?

PaintMix — Paint Mixing Studio has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for PaintMix is 50 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-13

A rating prompt that asks once, politely, after your third save. Everything from 1.0.1 — light calibration from a gray card, projects that reopen where you left off, ruled lines that lean, an outline that finds every edge, four block-ins, Munsell readouts and the rest.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-11

Calibrate the light from a gray card or white paper and check your mix through it. Projects that reopen where you left off. Ruled lines that lean, and an outline that finds every edge. A welcome tour, every number explained, starter sets in one tap, the same tube in other brands, watercolour that dilutes instead of whitening, a live camera squint, a notan slider, thirds and diagonal grids, crop to your canvas size, print the outline tiled at canvas size. Light-and-shadow and warm-and-cool block-ins, Munsell readouts, limited palette presets, mix the complement, a lighting fix for lamp-lit photos, and a fix for Choose paints with an empty shelf.

### 1.0 — 2026-10-10

No release notes.

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