Comparison

Model Colors vs Adept Roll

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

Head to head
About

Model Colors

Manage your hobby model paints and projects with this app. Track owned and needed colors, share lists, and find similar shades. Organize paints by project or type for easy access.

Highlights
  • Track owned and needed model paints
  • Browse over 50,000 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
  • Manage model projects with required colors
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.

About

Adept Roll

This app streamlines complex combat calculations for tabletop wargames. It allows users to import unit profiles, apply various abilities and modifiers, and run simulations to determine combat outcomes. Results can be exported for further analysis.

Highlights
  • Army vs Army combat scenarios
  • Export results to CSV
  • Import hundreds of unit profiles
  • Create multiple weapons per attacker
  • Apply abilities and modifiers
  • Tournament Mode
  • Profile tagging and search
Features
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• MathHammer for whole Army vs Army scenarios • Export all results to CSV for further analysis • Leader and Bodyguard MathHammer• Quickly import 100s of Attacker and Defender profiles for MathHammer processing • Create multiple weapons per Attacker • Abilities and Modifiers for Attackers: Lethal/Sustained Hits, Devasting Wounds, +/- to Hit/Wound, ReRoll Hits/Wounds, Auto Hits • And even more; Blast, Twin-Linked, Anti-X+, and much more • Abilities and Modifiers for Defender: -1 Damage, Half Damage, Feel No Pain, etc • Tournament Mode, for focusing on what matters when it matters during games • Instantly run MathHammer simulations against any profile • Profile tagging and search for efficiently organising your unit profiles • Input points cost for Return on Investment EULA Terms and Conditions for in-app purchases at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Adept Roll Privacy https://adeptroll.com/privacy/ Adept Roll Help https://adeptroll.com/help/

Screenshots

Model Colors4 screens
Adept Roll4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Adept Roll at every 5 days against Model Colors's monthly. Adept Roll also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 61%) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). 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. Model Colors sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Adept Roll sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Adept Roll holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 448 and 211 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Model Colors's written reviews are positive against 80% of Adept Roll's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Model Colors ships an update monthly, Adept Roll every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Model Colors versus Adept Roll: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterModel ColorsAdept Roll
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (448 ratings)4.8 (211 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.6% of reviews80.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings448 — better211
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperD-Pointer OyJake Noble

Customer experience

Model Colors

All ratings448 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral2.9%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews193 reviews
Positive60.6%
Neutral3.6%
Negative35.8%

Adept Roll

All ratings211 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral0.5%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive80.4%
Neutral2.0%
Negative17.6%

Bugs and requests

Model Colors

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Adept Roll

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • App is outdated for chaos factions
  • Some incorrect results observed (exploding 6s, auto-wounding)
  • Could not get it to work
  • Not updated for 9ed
  • Errors in calculations
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  • No support from developer
  • Login screen freezes
  • Incompatible with older devices

Requested features

16 requests
  • Ability to attach leaders to units
  • More intuitive import mechanics
  • Reverse button to swap attacker/defender
  • Ability to edit custom profiles
  • Update for newer editions (e.g., 9ed)
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  • Add melee support
  • Input for abilities like Death to the False Emperor
  • Allow multiple attackers for comparison
  • Add support for 3+D3 damage
  • Add support for exploding 6s and auto-wounding on 6s calculation
  • Preloaded profiles for GEQ, MEQ
  • Support for multiple attacker/defender profiles simultaneously
  • Reroll 1s and 2s for specific abilities (e.g., disgustingly resilient)
  • Add a dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard
  • Add leader to squad functionality

In-app purchases

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
3 purchases

Adept Roll

Subscriptions3
  • Annual Pro Subscription7 Days trial$5.991 Year
  • Adept Roll Pro$5.991 Year
  • Adept Roll Super Pro$12.991 Year

Questions

Is Model Colors free?
Model Colors is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Adept Roll free?
Adept Roll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Model Colors or Adept Roll?
Adept Roll is rated higher. Model Colors averages 4.6 out of 5 from 448 ratings, while Adept Roll averages 4.8 from 211 ratings.
Do Model Colors or Adept Roll have ads?
Neither Model Colors nor Adept Roll shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Model Colors or Adept Roll?
Model Colors ships an update monthly, and Adept Roll every 5 days. Most recently, Model Colors was updated on November 6, 2026 and Adept Roll on November 3, 2026.

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