The Painting Ledger User Reviews

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Some bugs but otherwise great

Definitely an amazing app especially if you struggle with a pile of shame, however the “models awaiting paint” feature does not work for me at all, very minor issue and a great app very highly recommend paying for all the features. Outstanding!

Fantastic organizer

If you struggle with a backlog of models or trying to keep a pace with painting, this is a great tool. Catalog your paint colors, track the amounts you have for future purchases, plan model projects, record paint schemes, track and compete with a hobby leaderboard, and all towards organizing your hobby workflow. It database of paints and models is created by the community of users, so what you scan or what you manually enter will help and be used by future users as well. Simple design and weirdly addictive with the achievements you can collect. I’ve increased my hobby output by a lot with this.
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Response from developer

I really appreciate your review. I am also incredibly happy that you find it helpful. I try to remind myself that I built the app I WANTED, so when people find its helping them too it feels like validation. I'm excited to see your schemes and progress. Go play some games!

App Is A Mess

The app barely works. The barcode scanner definitely does not work at all. I tried scanning both individual paint bottles and even the paint boxes themselves, and every single time it just redirects me to the generic manual entry screen to type everything in myself. That completely defeats the purpose of why I downloaded the app in the first place. I own the full Army Painter range, and I am absolutely not going to manually enter every single paint one by one.

On top of that, the Pro upgrade appears broken too. I paid to upgrade, but every time I try to use a Pro feature it just sends me back to the upgrade screen again. Then when I try upgrading again, it says I already own Pro. So I paid for features I still can’t access.

The entire app feels unfinished and nonfunctional.

(Review Update: Update: The developer responded acting like my review was somehow unfair or just “bad timing,” so I reinstalled the app and tested everything again, since I still had an active Pro subscription for the month. The exact same issues are still there.

The paid Pro features STILL do not work. Scheme Vault, Scheme Journal, and Scheme Advisor all redirect me to the “Upgrade to Pro” screen. Then when I click upgrade, the app tells me I am already subscribed to Pro. So ye, charging people money for features they literally cannot access is absolutely what I would call a messy app.

The paint scanner is also still broken in multiple areas. Some paints scan now, so clearly something changed. Army Painter Speedpaints are scanning correctly, but Many regular Army Painter (I have the Army Painter Wargamers Complete Set) acrylics either do not scan at all or all come up as “The Glottkin.” If your core feature is cataloging paints through scanning, that is a major problem.

I do not care whether this is a solo developer project or not. The moment you start charging money for premium features, people are allowed to judge the app as a paid product. “I’m only one developer” stops being a defense when the paid features still don’t function.)
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Response from developer

Hey there. Building an app by myself is hard and there is always something I'm trying to improve. I am fairly certain (and I suppose it's my bad luck) that you tried out the app and left a review on a day something was broken. I am sorry for that. I can say I also own a lot of Army Painter paints and just did a few test scans and everything is working fine. In terms of the boxes, this is a MAJOR gap only because I have to ask all the manufacturers to send me the UPC's for their box sets AND the contents in those sets. I've reached out to every manufacturer I support, some have been helpful, others have not. I am at their mercy. I am doing what I can am ALWAYS available and open for feedback. I don't think the "app is a mess" and I am sad to see that as the title here. Anyways. Thanks for the comment.

App Is A Mess

The app barely works. The barcode scanner definitely does not work at all. I tried scanning both individual paint bottles and even the paint boxes themselves, and every single time it just redirects me to the generic manual entry screen to type everything in myself. That completely defeats the purpose of why I downloaded the app in the first place. I own the full Army Painter range, and I am absolutely not going to manually enter every single paint one by one.

On top of that, the Pro upgrade appears broken too. I paid to upgrade, but every time I try to use a Pro feature it just sends me back to the upgrade screen again. Then when I try upgrading again, it says I already own Pro. So I paid for features I still can’t access.

The entire app feels unfinished and nonfunctional.
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