Model Colors vs Tsumina
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Tsumina
Organize your plastic model kit collection with this app. Track builds through different stages, add photos and notes, and even scan barcodes to add new kits quickly. Stay updated on new releases and hobby news.
- Manage model kit collection
- Track build stages
- Add photos and notes
- Barcode scanning for kit entry
- View collection statistics
- Stay updated on new releases
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Tsumina is a collection manager made for Gunpla and plastic model builders. Bought it, never built it? If your stash of unbuilt kits has grown beyond what you can keep track of, Tsumina helps you take back control of your collection. MANAGE YOUR COLLECTION Keep every kit you own in one organized list. Track each build through four stages — Stock, Building, Completed, and Wishlist — and add photos, notes, and tags to create your own modeling archive. ADD KITS IN SECONDS Search by product name to add a kit in a tap. Rare items that don't turn up can be added manually. SCAN THE BARCODE Point your camera at a barcode and the kit is registered instantly — perfect for logging a whole shelf of Gunpla at once. STATS & REPORTS See your collection at a glance with built-in statistics, and share your stash report on social media. NEW RELEASES & NEWS Keep up with the latest Gunpla and plastic model releases and hobby news.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Model Colors at 61% against Tsumina's 29%. Model Colors also leads on ratings volume (448 vs 2). Tsumina's advantage is update cadence (daily vs monthly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Model Colors sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Tsumina sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tsumina holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Model Colors has 448 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of Model Colors's written reviews are positive against 29% of Tsumina's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Model Colors ships an update monthly, Tsumina daily. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Model Colors | Tsumina |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (448 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.6% of reviews — better | 28.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 448 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | D-Pointer Oy | sakatech |
Customer experience
Model Colors
Tsumina
In-app purchases
Model Colors
- 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
Tsumina
- Premium Plan (Monthly)14 Days trial$3.991 Month









