Comparison

X vs Model Colors

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

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About

X

Enhance your Star Wars X-Wing Miniatures game experience with an AI opponent. Practice strategies solo, test new ship builds, or team up with a friend. This app tracks game stats and replaces stat cards, streamlining gameplay.

Highlights
  • AI opponent for solo or co-op play
  • Tracks enemy shields, hull, and energy
  • Replaces AI stat cards
  • Supports X-Wing 1.0 and 2.0
  • Compatible with Heroes of the Aturi Cluster and Flight Group Alpha
  • Works offline
Features
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Battle it out against a computer-controlled fleet of ships with X-Wing AI. Set your ship’s location and bearing and watch the enemy make believable but unpredictable maneuvers. Great for practicing strategy solo, testing new lists, or teaming up on the enemy with a friend. X-Wing AI is a companion app for the Star Wars X-Wing Miniatures board game that works offline and is compatible with Heroes of the Aturi Cluster (HotAC) and Flight Group Alpha (FGA). ▶ A SMART BUT UNPREDICTABLE OPPONENT Battle-tested enemy logic creates a worthy opponent. Each action is generated from multiple inputs providing a realistic battle that keeps you guessing. Fully compatible with Heroes of the Aturi Cluster and Flight Group Alpha. ▶ X-WING 1.0 AND 2.0 A unique set of maneuvers, actions, and targeting priorities for every ship in the game. There's something new to discover every time your miniatures hit the table. ▶ KEEPS YOUR PLAYMAT CLEAR Track enemy shields, hull, and energy right in X-Wing AI. The app also replaces the AI stat cards, one less thing to worry about. ▶ 5 STAR REVIEWS Awesome AI for X Wing by Lord Fajubi Really enjoy this app both playing solo and co-op. It is challenging enough you have to pay attention and just the little extras like a free target lock or focus action makes the AI deadlier than it would normally be. It made me love my X Wing ships again. If you have ships but can't set up or find a game? Get this app. Amazing for Heroes of the Aturi Cluster by Slightly Mad Guy I’ve been a long time user of the app, and had the privilege to work on the beta team for the 2.0 launch. This app performs fantastically for both solo play and campaign missions in HotAC. The creator is very involved with the community and does a great job integrating new ideas into the app. I highly recommend this for all of your X-Wing needs, whether practicing or campaigning! Great app by CaldazarSG Perfect for HotAC, really speeds up and streamlines the AI planning. Just started using it for AI against which I am testing new squadron builds, seems promising for that as well. Simply and easy to use. Had a brief issue with the app, reached out to Joe and he followed up multiple times until resolution, fantastic service. If you play HotAC or solo, this is the app to use! Please note that using the second edition AI (2.0) requires a small subscription. If you have feedback or suggestions please email me: joe@masilotti.com Star Wars and all associated elements are © 2015 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All rights reserved. Fantasy Flight Games and X-Wing Miniatures Game are trademarks of Fantasy Flight Publishing, Inc. XWing AI uses the standard Terms of Use (EULA) set forth by Apple: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Model Colors

This app helps hobbyists manage their paint collections for models. Track colors you own, colors you need, and easily share lists. Find similar colors and organize them into custom lists for different projects.

Highlights
  • Track owned and needed paint colors
  • Browse over 40,000 colors from various brands
  • Share color lists via email and messaging
  • Set favorite colors for quick access
  • Find similar colors using standards or calculations
  • Create custom color lists for projects
Features
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Model Colors is an application for helping you keep track of your hobby model colors and projects. Have you ever ended up buying the wrong colors because you didn’t remember the exact code of the color you needed or forgot to get that pesky Dunkelgelb that you needed to finish that glorious tank you’re working on? If so, then Model Colors helps you keep track of the colors that you own and the colors that you need to buy. The application contains lists of all colors from a set of brands and you can browse these lists and mark the ones you already own and the ones you need to buy. Currently the app has over 50000 colors included from most big and many small manufacturers. The lists of your own colors and colors that you need to buy can be easily shared via mail, iMessage etc. If you mainly use some particular color types or individual colors you can set them as favorites and easily access them from the main menu. You can check for colors that are similar to a certain color either via color standards like FS, RAL, RLM etc, or via industry standard CIE deltaE 2000 calculations. Various colors can also be grouped together for quick access into custom color lists. You can keep the colors you normally use for US airplanes in one list and colors you use for fantasy miniatures in another, making them easy to find. Some of the included brands: Abteilung 502, Agama, AKAN, AK Interactive, Alclad II, Ammo, Andrea, AOK Silveroaks, Apple Barrell, Arcus Hobby Colors, Army Painter, Badger, Bits of War, Coat D'Arms, Colour Forge, Craft Smart, Createx, Creature Caster, Daler-Rowney, Darkstar Miniatures, Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy, Dwarven Forge, E7, Fantasy Flight Games, Faskolor, Fire Scale Modeler, Flames of War, Flory Models, ForgeWorld, Gaia, Gamescraft, Games Workshop, Golden, Gravity Colors, Green Stuff World, Hannants, Hataka, Heller, Hobby Mio, Huge Miniatures, Humbrol, ICM, Instar, Italeri, Jo Sonja's, Jumpwind, Kimera Models, Lefranc Bourgeois, LifeColor, Liquitex, Meng, Microscale, MIG Productions, Minuteman Scale Models, Mission Models, Modellers World, Modo, Monkey Modelling Paints, Monument Hobbies, Mr. Hobby, MR Paint, Nocturna Models, Paasche, Pacific88, Pactra, Pledge, Prince August, Privateer Press, ProScale Paints, Rackham, Reaper, Rembrandt, Revell, Rust-Oleum, Scale75, Scale Colors, Scale Modellers Supply, Sovereign Hobbies, Splash Paints, Tamiya, Testors, Titans Hobby, Tru-Color, True Earth, TT Combat, Turbo Dork, Ultimate Modelling Products, Vallejo, Vantage Modelling Solutions, Warcolours, Wargames Foundry, Warlord Games, Wilder, Winsor & Newton. You can also add the models that you are working on or plan to build in the future. For each model you can register the colors that are required and make sure that you don't forget to buy any essential colors. Each model can have a photos associated with it as well as notes. Using the notes and photos it is easy to keep a build diary or just keep track of things that you need to do at some point. Model Colors requires iCloud and iCloud Drive to be enabled for the app to work. iCloud Drive is used to save photos and documents for our models. Model Colors uses a subscription in order to support the application development and there's a trial period that lets you evaluate the app. Please see the link https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ for the End User License Agreement.

Screenshots

X4 screens
Model Colors4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Model Colors at none against X's shown. Model Colors also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.4). X's advantage is review sentiment (70% vs 61%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. X sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Model Colors sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Model Colors holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 230 and 449 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 70% of X's written reviews are positive against 61% of Model Colors's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

X ships an update every 3 weeks, Model Colors monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
X versus Model Colors: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterXModel Colors
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (230 ratings)4.6 (449 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.2% of reviews — better60.6% of reviews
Number of ratings230449 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVADOSWARE LLCD-Pointer Oy

Customer experience

X

All ratings222 ratings
Positive85.1%
Neutral4.5%
Negative10.4%
Written reviews47 reviews
Positive70.2%
Neutral6.4%
Negative23.4%

Model Colors

All ratings447 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral2.9%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews193 reviews
Positive60.6%
Neutral3.6%
Negative35.8%

Bugs and requests

X

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • AI never chooses its own maneuvers
  • Huge ships missing bullseye arc and initiative values
  • Broken in-app purchase for Scum expansion
  • List always deletes overnight or after long periods
  • App keeps asking to buy Scum expansion repeatedly
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  • Some maneuver colors differ from dials

Requested features

19 requests
  • Lifetime subscription for 2nd edition
  • Rename/assign numbers to units
  • Warn AI of potential collisions
  • Update with new AMG ships
  • Fix huge ship bullseye arc and initiative values
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  • Allow renaming/assigning numbers to units
  • Warn AI of potential collisions
  • Update with new AMG ships
  • Fix huge ship bullseye arc and initiative values
  • Show full list in one display
  • Save lists for future plays
  • Option for epic huge ships
  • Update for X-Wing 2.0 with 1.0 option
  • Armada app possibility
  • Map outline with moveable icons
  • Show opponent icons for AI/player thinking
  • Add ability to remove a ship
  • Add a 'reset' button
  • Update as new ships and maneuvers are added

Model Colors

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

X

Subscriptions2
  • 7 day FREE trial7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time3
  • Scum ships$0.99
  • Ground Assault ships$0.99
  • Unlimited ships$1.99
4 purchases

Model Colors

Subscriptions4
  • 1 month subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • 3 month subscription14 Days trial$1.993 Months
  • 6 month subscription1 Month trial$3.496 Months
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  • 1 year subscription1 Month trial$5.991 Year

Questions

Is X free?
X is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Model Colors free?
Model Colors is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, X or Model Colors?
Model Colors is rated higher. X averages 4.4 out of 5 from 230 ratings, while Model Colors averages 4.6 from 449 ratings.
Do X or Model Colors have ads?
X shows ads; Model Colors does not.
Which is updated more often, X or Model Colors?
X ships an update every 3 weeks, and Model Colors monthly. Most recently, X was updated on October 24, 2026 and Model Colors on October 24, 2026.

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