Comparison

Model Colors vs Brushrage

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

Head to head
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.

About

Brushrage

Organize and track your miniature painting projects, progress, and paint collections. Features a vast paint library, paint set creation, and custom paint mixing with physical-based color calculations. Reference paints in images and share your work.

Highlights
  • Project organization and tracking
  • Model collection management
  • Extensive paint library
  • Paint set and palette creation
  • Custom paint mixing
  • Image paint referencing
  • Social media sharing
Features
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Brushrage is aimed at miniature and model painters to organize and track their projects, progress, model-collection and colours used or in possession. It comes with a huge paint library, helps to find similar paints and can create paint-sets, palettes, a wishlist and inventory or mix custom paints (with physical-based colour calculations). It can also reference paints in images or share them to social media, or even store them from social media for inspiration and reference. ---- Supplied Paint Ranges ---- • Abteilung 502 • AK Interactive • Alclad II • AMMO by Mig • Andrea • Apple Barrel • Artist's Loft • Badger Minitaire • Bear Cavalry • Citadel / Forge World • Coat d'arms • Colour Forge • Creatix • Creature Caster • Cuttlefish Colors • Daler Rowney • Darkstar Molten Metals • Forge World • Formula P3 • Gaahleri / Kaleido • Gaia • Gamblin • Gamescraft • Golden • GreenStuffWorld • Hataka Hobby • Hera Models • Huge Miniatures • Humbrol • Holbein • ICM • Instar • Ionic • Italeri • Iwata • Kimera • LifeColor • Liquitex • MiniaturePaints • Mindwork • Mission Models • Molotow • Montana • Monument Hobbies • Mr. Hobby • MRP - Mr. Paint • Nocturna Models • PKPro • Reaper • Revell • Royal Talens • Scale 75 • Schmincke • Sennelier • ShadowsEdge Miniatures • SMS • Tamiya • Testors • TheArmyPainter • Turbo Dork • Turner • TTCombat • Vallejo • WarColours • Wargames Foundry • Warhammer Colour • Williamsburg • Winsor & Newton Brushrage uses Mixbox (CC-BY)

Screenshots

Model Colors4 screens
Brushrage4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Brushrage at 97% against Model Colors's 60%. Brushrage also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Model Colors's advantage is ratings volume (445 vs 33). On price, ads and device support 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. Brushrage asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Brushrage holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Model Colors has 445 ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Model Colors's written reviews are positive against 97% of Brushrage's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Model Colors ships an update monthly, Brushrage weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Model Colors versus Brushrage: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterModel ColorsBrushrage
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (445 ratings)4.8 (33 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.4% of reviews97.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings445 — better33
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB43 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperD-Pointer OySebastian Kohl

Customer experience

Model Colors

All ratings445 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral2.9%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews192 reviews
Positive60.4%
Neutral3.6%
Negative35.9%

Brushrage

All ratings33 ratings
Positive97.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive97.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.7%

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
None

Brushrage

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Model Colors free?
Model Colors is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Brushrage free?
Brushrage is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Model Colors or Brushrage?
Brushrage is rated higher. Model Colors averages 4.6 out of 5 from 445 ratings, while Brushrage averages 4.8 from 33 ratings.
Do Model Colors or Brushrage have ads?
Neither Model Colors nor Brushrage shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Model Colors or Brushrage?
Model Colors ships an update monthly, and Brushrage weekly. Most recently, Model Colors was updated on October 1, 2026 and Brushrage on October 2, 2026.

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