Value Study User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience91.9% of reviews
Neutral1.5% of reviews
Negative experience6.6% of reviews

~ Based on 198 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Value Study Safe?

Value Study: art reference appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Value Study is 96/100.

This assessment is based on 3,268 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

96.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
2.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 3,268 App Store ratings for Value Study.

Is Value Study Legit?

Value Study: art reference appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Value Study is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Indispensable

Simple, easy, effective.

Too complicated

This app may be good for someone who is a tech wizard, but I’m an artist—this just confused me.

Wonderful app for artists.

I use Value Study in designing my multi-block linocut prints. Shane, the developer has created an extremely useful tool, so much better than posterizing in other apps. And he is extremely responsive in adjusting to meet my needs as an artist.

A Creator who Cares

This is an excellent app for artists and photographers—it’s helped my paintings immensely, making compositional design much clearer and easier. I’ll add that I encountered a minor problem with live view crashes, I messaged the creator, and within a couple of weeks he fixed it—and emailed me personally to let me know. That kind of dedication is worth five stars in itself.
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Good Value Study ap

Really like the app as long as it’s on no simplification. If I use the simplification part of the app, it’s very distorted. Without the simplification on it is a great app

Perfect app for learning

I’ve found this app to be wonderful as a learning assistant. The value decomposition is a crucial tool for learning how to see what matters in a photo, and you can easily change how many values to decompose an image into. The second feature I find so helpful is the grid option. I also like that that secondary grid is diagonal (a feature I haven’t seen anywhere else), which helps you avoid confusion with the major grid axis.
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Great for adult learners

I require this app from my students. Value study is not taught in many art classes. It is difficult to get students to see value in a colorful work of art. This app has given many of my students that “ Ah ha” moment.

The BESTEST

Just starting out with painting and this app is fantastic

My “go to” tool

Thanks for your thoughtful sharing of this app. I is my “go to” tool when I’m in the design process of creating my paintings. I was easy to learn and now easy to use. I’ve been using this app for years and it is a valuable tool saving me time and often allowing me to understand my work better.

THIS IS THE BEST APP FOR ART

This has been a daily STAPLE for over three years now. It immediately helped my art game and professionally now I RELY ON IT! A LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION OPTION!? YAS!🙏 🙌To the person who made this THANK YOU SO MUCH 🫡🤌May your pillow always be cool, may your caps lock never negate your last password request and may your sleeves never be damp after washing your hands. YOU’RE ICONIC AND WHEN I CAN I’LL DONATE
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Fun and useful

I am still mostly a beginner with visual arts. This tool has fascinated me and inspired me. I love doing value studies without color. It’s liberating. I can’t wait to use this app again and again.

Great tool for artists

Does an incredible job for learning values and includes a variety of tools to adjust values. Worth the price. Would love the addition of a copy and paste option when submitting photos. Besides that it’s perfect.

Time saver

Love this app. So easy to use and to follow when planning a particular painting!!

Small issue was sorted out very quickly!

I had an initial glitch getting started but Shane took care of it quickly and I am more than satisfied. An absolute pleasure to work with. Over and above customer service.

Love this app so much

So incredibly helpful! I’m learning portrait painting in oil and knowing the values is crucial to my success. This app saves me a lot of time and guesswork. I appreciate that I can choose how many values my subject is broken down into. Great tool. Thanks for making it!!

Excellent resource

In trying to work out the value tones this app is fantastic.
I screenshot the outlines and then transfers them to my canvas.
It’s sooo useful as I find it really hard to judge value and tone. Thanks for developing it!

Fantastic

Great app for studies , very simple but affective

An artist dream App

I can’t describe how happy I’m that I found this App. I’ve been looking for years for a tool that would deal with values, but also simplification and histograms. This app does all that. It replaces a number of different apps I used in the past to accomplish the same results.

My only criticism is that it switches zooms when toggling between options. It also switches zoom levels when selecting a different value in the bottom gray scale. That’s a bit annoying, but I can live with that. A solid five star.
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Value Study’s value

This application has proven to be an indispensable asset in my creative process, particularly in discerning the core value structure of my artistic projects.

The BESTEST

Just starting out with painting and this app is fantastic