Paintstorm Studio Lite vs Real Paint mixing tools LITE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Paintstorm Studio Lite
This app offers professional digital painting tools for artists of all levels. It provides extensive brush customization, stroke correction, and intuitive controls to enhance the mobile art creation experience. Discover new possibilities for digital drawing with advanced features and Apple Pencil support.
- Extensive brush customization
- Stroke post-correction
- Apple Pencil support
- Dynamic interface
- Mirror drawing
- Standard tools pack
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Paintstorm Studio is the first iOS App designed not only for simple sketches, but professional digital painting of any level, genre and technique. Paintstorm helps you to discover the magnificence and unleash the full potential of Apple Pencil and brings you to a whole new level of drawing. Creating an art masterpiece has never been so mobile. A major feature of Paintstorm Studio is the array of brushes to choose from. We did our best so that you can easily and quickly adjust the brushes suitable to your painting style. Anyone who has ever painted knows it's hard to overestimate the painting tool and the importance of all the seemingly insignificant details. We tried not to miss any of them. Our goal was to create an intuitive, simple-to-use but at the same time functionally powerful tool that brings the process of digital painting to a new level, making it as comfortable as possible. - Full control of all brush options (Incredible possibilities for brush settings) - Bristle brushes of any form and kind - Stroke post correction (You can take an action on any option. Not only on the stroke thickness) - Parameters binding to the perspective - Dynamic interface (Global interface scale, panels scale, opacity, color) - Custom panels - Full controlled mask-brush (Each brush can work as mask for other brush) - Takes underlayer's color while blending - "Close gaps" function when you fill or select - Dirty brush mode - Stroke stabilizer - Usable color mixer - Different gradient strokes - Mirror drawing - Standard tools pack (Lasso, Magic wand, Crop, Fill, Gradient and etc) - Control of the random amounts - Apple Pencil support (Pressure, Tilt, Direction) Lite version restrictions: - It is not possible to load and save psd files - A watermark is added to the picture Upgrade to the full version and get rid of the limits!
Real Paint mixing tools LITE
This application helps painters find precise paint mixing recipes by analyzing colors from images. It supports various color spaces and can approximate saturation to fit digital colors into real paint gamuts, reducing waste and aiding artists.
- Calculate paint mixing recipes from images
- Supports multiple color spaces (sRGB, P3, CMYK, Lab, etc.)
- Approximates saturation to fit digital colors into paint gamuts
- Reduces paint and money waste
- Useful for art students and professionals
- Works on iPhone and iPad
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RPaintLite is fully functional with a limited number of Paint Lines ("ideal paint" and the airbrush paint "Ferrario Acrylic Pen Colors" are available). Please note that RPaintLite includes 8 paint bases of each Paint Line. These bases are Black, White and 3 or 6 colored ones, according to your Palette selection. These bases are fixed, and all color recipes use these and only these. Therefore, once you've selected your real Paint Line (Ferrario Acrylic Pen Colors in this free version), you can purchase the 8 bases and use them for all your paintings. The 6 colored bases of each Paint Line were optimized to cover the widest possible OPAQUE color space offering you as many as possible mixable colors. These tools use measurements of real paint spectra, so big part of the RGB/P3 space can be mixed, but not all RGB/P3 colors. This is not a limitation of the app, just physics. There are also many colors which can be mixed, even if they don't belong to the RGB/P3 color space (you can find these by manually varying the paint base amounts on the "mixing" page and reading the Lab values). RPaintLite can be used on iPhone or iPad with iOS 9.0 or later. Even an old iPhone 4S or mini iPad can find a second life and become a Real Paint Mixing Device! Painters can select colors from an image and have the corresponding paint mixing recipe computed. This is very useful to art students, to painters with color vision difficulties or to those working in the painting conservation and restoration fields. Paint and money waste can be greatly reduced! Color Coordinates can be converted from one space into another: sRGB, Display P3, CMYK, HSL, HSV/B, Lab, Lch-ab, Luv, Lch-uv, XYZ, xyY are available. The Munsell space is not available in the RPaintLite app. Digital images usually don't fit into the color gamut of real paint lines. RPaintLite can find an approximated (de)saturation value of an image to fit it into the selected Paint Set color gamut with the current mixing parameters. The value is approximated, because it is based on heuristics, but it is usually a very good approximation. Please note that color of paint coming from various parts of a tube or from different batches of the manufacturer can vary, so mix small amounts first to be sure that computed recipes meet your needs!! Please check the video tutorials on youtube by searching for "Real Paint mixing tools" to see how to use these apps in your paintings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Paintstorm Studio Lite at 4.0 against Real Paint mixing tools LITE's 3.2. Paintstorm Studio Lite also leads on ratings volume (267 vs 5). Real Paint mixing tools LITE's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Paintstorm Studio Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paintstorm Studio Lite has 267 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 24% and 25% positive.
Paintstorm Studio Lite ships an update every 4 months, Real Paint mixing tools LITE every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Paintstorm Studio Lite | Real Paint mixing tools LITE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (267 ratings) — better | 3.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 24.1% of reviews | 25.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 267 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.1 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sergei Komarov | AI4res srl |
Customer experience
Paintstorm Studio Lite
Real Paint mixing tools LITE
Bugs and requests
Paintstorm Studio Lite
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when opening or switching between projects
- Brush settings and color wheel disappearing unexpectedly
- Inability to save or recover unsaved artwork
Requested features
4 requests- Remove watermark option
- Ability to import photos and images
- Better organization and customization of UI
- More intuitive brush and tool controls
Real Paint mixing tools LITE
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Paintstorm Studio Lite
No in-app purchases
Real Paint mixing tools LITE
No in-app purchases
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