Best apps like Smarty Paints

10+ similar apps compared and reviewed

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9 free apps
Updated October 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(52 ratings)
$19.99
#26in 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(5 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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Color Study: Simplify Painting
Color Study: Simplify Painting
Color Study: Simplify Painting
Simplify color, value & shape
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This app helps artists simplify images into essential shapes and colors for study. It provides tools for accurate color matching, paint mixing guidance, and detailed analysis of value, saturation, and color codes. Advanced features for deeper analysis and paint mixing are available via subscription.

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Real Paint mixing tools PRO
Real Paint mixing tools PRO
Real Paint mixing tools PRO
paint mixing recipes made easy
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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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Value Study: art reference
Value Study: art reference
Value Study: art reference
Analyze light and shadow
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This app helps artists improve their skills by analyzing light and shadow in reference images. It allows users to break down tones step-by-step, from simple black and white to more complex value ranges, aiding in the understanding of depth and form. It's a tool to enhance traditional art studies.

Step-by-step tone breakdownHighlighting areas of same valueFocus on light, shadow, and form
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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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Undertint: Mix Watercolour
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