Comparison

MetaBrush vs Mana Palette

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

Head to head
About

MetaBrush

Transform your photos into artistic paintings with a variety of brush presets and advanced settings. This app offers layers support and the ability to import Photoshop brushes, allowing for detailed customization of your artwork.

Highlights
  • 30 brush presets
  • Layers support
  • Import Photoshop brushes (.abr)
  • Customizable stroke settings
  • Paint with images
Features
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With Metabrush you can easily turn your photos into paintings. The result images are very artistic, as you brush with different presets and settings. Visit the gallery at http://instagram.com/metabrush for many examples. Features: • 30 brush presets for artistically clone your original image. • Layers support • 500+ brushes bitmaps • Support for importing directly Photoshop brushes (.abr) • Include many settings for the strokes as dynamical size, rotation, shadow, and opacity. • You can assign colors to the strokes, but also paint with images (as if they were colors). Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Mana Palette

Features
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Mana Palette is a color-study tool for miniature painters, illustrators, and designers — a quiet studio built around one artwork at a time. DISCOVER — Shuffle random Magic: The Gathering artworks with mana color filters, set search, artist lock, and theme search. Artist, card and source are always credited; bookmark references into your gallery. ANALYZE — A precision eyedropper with pixel loupe and adjustable sample size (1×1 to 25×25 px, correctly averaged), value study (luminance) and shape study (simplified color fields — the picker samples exactly what you see). You can also load your own image for analysis; it stays on your device. PALETTES — Collect up to 12 colors with notes and tags (per palette and per color), matched against 9 miniature paint ranges (Citadel, Vallejo, Army Painter, AK Gen3, P3, Golden SoFlat, Scale75, Reaper, Pro Acryl) via CIEDE2000 — with an adjustable dE threshold so you only see paints that really match. Shopping list included. EXPORT — Auto palette and working palettes as hex list, PNG swatch card (with color data and best paint per swatch), GPL (GIMP/Krita), CSV, and JSON — via the iOS share sheet. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Everything stays local on your device. Works in portrait and landscape. Mana Palette is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. (c) Wizards of the Coast LLC. Card data and imagery via Scryfall.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mana Palette at none against MetaBrush's 3. Mana Palette also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. MetaBrush sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Mana Palette asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MetaBrush ships an update every 2 months, Mana Palette daily. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
MetaBrush versus Mana Palette: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMetaBrushMana Palette
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (22 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews65.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings22 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size253 MB5 MB
Age rating4+9+
DevelopertalonsodevMarkus Wenzel

In-app purchases

3 purchases

MetaBrush

Subscriptions2
  • Metabrush PRO3 Days trial$0.997 Days
  • Metabrush PRO3 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Metabrush PRO$9.99
None

Mana Palette

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MetaBrush free?
MetaBrush is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mana Palette free?
Mana Palette is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do MetaBrush or Mana Palette have ads?
Neither MetaBrush nor Mana Palette shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MetaBrush or Mana Palette?
MetaBrush ships an update every 2 months, and Mana Palette daily. Most recently, MetaBrush was updated on October 21, 2026 and Mana Palette on October 25, 2026.

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