Best Smarty Paints alternatives: apps like Smarty Paints

10+ similar apps compared and reviewed

4.8 avg rating
9 free apps
Updated November 2026

Looking for something like Smarty Paints? We've analyzed 10+ similar apps to help you find the best alternative. Each app is compared by ratings, features, and real user reviews, so you can make the right choice.

Top Alternatives to Smarty Paints

ChromaMagic#2

ChromaMagic by Michele Clamp

See Color, Paint Color
Strong Contender
🎨 Graphics & Design
4.8(53 ratings)
$19.99
#15in Graphics & Design
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This app helps artists identify and understand colors in reference images. It breaks down colors into hue, value, and chroma, offering multiple modes to analyze color relationships and value shapes. Enhance your painting by truly seeing and mixing colors accurately.

Values at Play#3

Values at Play by Neil Daly

Seeing Values in Art
Worth Considering
🎨 Graphics & Design
5.0(6 ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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This app helps users practice identifying and analyzing values in art. It offers tools to create value studies, inspect specific color values, and find areas matching a chosen value. Users can import their own images for practice.

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Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters
Watercolour Paint Mixer
Free
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Real Paint mixing tools PRO
Real Paint mixing tools PRO
Real Paint mixing tools PRO
paint mixing recipes made easy
Free

This tool helps painters calculate precise paint mixing recipes from their own images. It supports numerous commercial paint brands and color spaces, aiding art students and professionals. Reduce wasted paint, time, and money with accurate color matching.

Color picking from imagesOPAQUE paint mixing recipesSupport for many commercial paint brands
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Color Study: Simplify Painting
Color Study: Simplify Painting
Color Study: Simplify Painting
Simplify color, value & shape
Free

This tool helps artists analyze images by simplifying colors, values, and shapes. It provides guidance for mixing paints to match observed colors and offers advanced features for deeper artistic study. Organize your work and sync across devices.

Image simplification for color and valueAccurate color picker with magnificationPaint mixing guidance with real-time feedback
🎨 Graphics & Design
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freemium
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Undertint: Watercolor Mixing
Undertint: Watercolor Mixing
Undertint: Watercolor Mixing
Match photo colors to paints
Free

This app helps watercolor artists mix colors by analyzing photos and providing custom paint recipes. It simplifies images into paintable colors and offers mixing instructions based on your existing palette. Features include adjustable detail, Munsell readings, and dilution gradients.

Photo color analysisCustom paint mixing recipesAdjustable image detail
🎨 Graphics & Design
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Value Study: art reference
Value Study: art reference
Value Study: art reference
Drawing Grid & Simplify Shapes
Free

This app helps artists improve their drawing and painting skills by simplifying reference images into greyscale tones. It allows users to break down complex images into distinct value levels, making it easier to understand light, shadow, and form.

Simplify images into greyscale tonesAdjustable number of value levelsHighlight areas of the same value
🎨 Graphics & Design
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Colorific: Color Palette
Colorific: Color Palette
Colorific: Color Palette
Create Beautiful Color Palette
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Generate and refine beautiful color palettes with a single click. Discover inspiration, extract colors from images, and import your favorites to create harmonious combinations. Easily adjust, organize, and share your palettes with support for multiple color code formats.

Generate color palettes with one clickExtract palettes from imagesImport colors and find complements
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Mix Paint
Mix Paint
Mix Paint
Perfect color, every time.
Free

This app assists artists in precisely mixing paint colors. It features a visual and photo-based color picker, an intelligent recipe generator for exact mixing ratios, and the ability to create and save custom palettes and recipes.

Visual Color PickerPhoto Color PickerIntelligent Recipe Generator
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