Comparison

Pigments Studio vs KitColorsPro

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pigments Studio

This app provides a digital color wheel with a high-contrast interface for easy navigation. Explore harmonious color relationships with traditional features and color filter presets that highlight complementary, triadic, and other schemes. Easily mix colors and retrieve hexadecimal codes for each sector.

Highlights
  • Digital color wheel
  • Color filter presets
  • Color scheme exploration
  • Color mixing functionality
  • Hexadecimal color code display
Features
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Pigments Studio helps you discover color relationships, extract palettes from photos, and build a personal library of colors for future projects. Explore complementary, split-complementary, triadic, tetradic, and analogous color schemes with the interactive color wheel. Fine-tune colors by adding tint, tone, shade, or color variations, or match an existing color to see how it transforms the entire palette. Capture inspiration from the world around you. Take a photo or choose one from your photo library to extract its dominant colors, then explore each color on the wheel, build palettes, and save your favorites for later. Features • Interactive color wheel with harmony schemes • Image analysis and automatic color palette extraction • Dominant color composition from photos • AI-powered palette generation with Apple Intelligence • Color matching and wheel transformation • Tint, tone, shade, and color adjustments • HEX color support • Save and organize custom palettes • Sync your palettes across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud • Add notes to saved palettes • Share palettes with others • Clean, distraction-free design focused on color exploration Whether you’re a designer, artist, illustrator, student, or simply exploring color theory, Pigments Studio helps you find inspiration, understand color relationships, and create palettes with confidence. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pigments.abearablecode.com/privacy.html

About

KitColorsPro

This app helps model painters find and manage colors. It features a large color library, allows custom scheme creation, and can pick colors directly from images with RGB precision. Manage your paint inventory and discover recommended shades and alternatives.

Highlights
  • Extensive color library
  • Custom color scheme creation
  • Color picking from images (RGB)
  • Recommended colors and alternatives
  • Inventory and wishlist management
  • Advanced search filters
Features
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Match and mix the exact paint for every model — from the paints you already own. KitColorsPro recreates any color, finds the closest match across 40+ brands, and previews a whole scheme with AI before you lift a brush. 20,000+ paints. COLOR MIXER WITH AUTO RECIPES Recreate any target color from your own paints. Blend up to 4 paints with a live preview and a real-time accuracy %, let the app auto-calculate the best 1–3 paint recipe, limit it to your inventory, and use Drops mode (1:10) to reproduce a mix at the bench. Every recipe is saved and synced. MATCH & CONVERT ACROSS 40+ BRANDS Out of a paint or it's discontinued? Find the closest match across 20,000+ colors from Tamiya, Vallejo, AK, Citadel, Mr. Hobby, Humbrol, Green Stuff World, Italeri, Revell, Scale75 and more. Paste a HEX or RGB code and convert it to real paints instantly. AI VIRTUAL PAINTER — SEE IT BEFORE YOU PAINT IT Upload a photo of your model, pick up to 5 paints, and AI repaints it in those colors. Test color schemes risk-free with a before/after slider — perfect for miniatures, Gunpla kits, tabletop armies and scale models. PICK A COLOR FROM ANY PHOTO Magnify any image to grab a reference color and match it to buyable, brand-specific paints. Color Unmixer even breaks a shade down into the paints that make it. COLOR WHEEL, PALETTES & PAINT SCHEMES Build color-theory palettes on the wheel, attach real paints, and plan a complete paint scheme per kit with roles for base, shading, highlight and weathering. INVENTORY, WISHLIST & MIXES Track every paint you own so you never buy a duplicate, keep a wishlist, save your custom mixes, and organize colors into groups. Syncs across devices, works offline. Whether you paint tabletop miniatures, Gunpla, military models or dioramas, KitColorsPro is the paint mixer, color matcher and AI planner you'll keep coming back to. Subscription Information * Subscription Titles: * KitcolorsPro Monthly (1 month) * KitcolorsPro Annual (1 year) * Payment: Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. * Auto-Renewal: Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. * Renewal Charge: Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, at the cost of the renewal. * Manage Subscriptions: You can manage or turn off auto-renew in your Account Settings at any time after purchase. * Free Trial (If Offered): Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Privacy Policy 
https://kitcolorspro.com/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA) 
https://kitcolorspro.com/terms.html By using KitcolorsPro, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Screenshots

Pigments Studio4 screens
KitColorsPro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: KitColorsPro at 100% against Pigments Studio's 38%. KitColorsPro also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pigments Studio sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and KitColorsPro sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

KitColorsPro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 78 and 27 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Pigments Studio's written reviews are positive against 100% of KitColorsPro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pigments Studio ships an update every 2 months, KitColorsPro every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pigments Studio versus KitColorsPro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPigments StudioKitColorsPro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (78 ratings)4.8 (27 ratings) — better
Positive reviews38.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings78 — better27
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB124 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRumiya MurtazinaDavit Kamavosyan

Customer experience

Pigments Studio

All ratings78 ratings
Positive78.2%
Neutral9.0%
Negative12.8%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive38.5%
Neutral15.4%
Negative46.2%

KitColorsPro

All ratings26 ratings
Positive96.2%
Neutral3.8%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Pigments Studio

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time4
  • Remove Ads Tier 2$1.99
  • Remove Ads Tier 3$2.99
  • Premium$2.99
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  • Remove Ads Tier 5$4.99
5 purchases

KitColorsPro

Subscriptions5
  • KitColorsPro Premium Weekly3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • KitColorsPro Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
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  • Annual$14.991 Year
  • Annual$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Pigments Studio free?
Pigments Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is KitColorsPro free?
KitColorsPro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pigments Studio or KitColorsPro?
KitColorsPro is rated higher. Pigments Studio averages 4.2 out of 5 from 78 ratings, while KitColorsPro averages 4.8 from 27 ratings.
Do Pigments Studio or KitColorsPro have ads?
Neither Pigments Studio nor KitColorsPro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pigments Studio or KitColorsPro?
Pigments Studio ships an update every 2 months, and KitColorsPro every 10 days. Most recently, Pigments Studio was updated on October 24, 2026 and KitColorsPro on October 25, 2026.

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