Comparison

Model Colors vs BlueprintGo

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

BlueprintGo

This app allows users to remotely monitor and manage their HeyGears devices, check slicing progress, schedule tasks, and receive instant notifications about job status and exceptions. It facilitates over-the-air updates and provides access to historical job records.

Highlights
  • Remote device monitoring
  • Over-the-air (OTA) updates
  • Slicing file progress tracking
  • One-click task sending
  • Historical job records
  • Instant job status notifications
  • Exception warnings
Features
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Blueprint Go provides integrated services for users of the HeyGears devices. ■ Remote Device Monitoring · Bind device at ease. · Remotely monitor the status of all devices. · Over-the-air (OTA) updates for the device software. ■ Carefree Slicing Files · Check slicing progress. · Send task by one-click. · Browse historical files. ■ Convinient Task Scheduling · View current job list. · Historical job records. · Monitor task status. ■ Instant Notifications · Got notified of the job status. · Instant warning of any exception. Download HeyGears Blueprint Go and enjoy 3D printing.

Screenshots

Model Colors4 screens
BlueprintGo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BlueprintGo at none against Model Colors's 4. BlueprintGo also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). Model Colors's advantage is ratings volume (445 vs 1) and review sentiment (60% vs 50%). On price, update cadence, 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. BlueprintGo asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

BlueprintGo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Model Colors has 445 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Model Colors's written reviews are positive against 50% of BlueprintGo's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Model Colors ships an update monthly, BlueprintGo every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and July 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Model Colors versus BlueprintGo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterModel ColorsBlueprintGo
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (445 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.4% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings445 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 5 weeks
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 MB102 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperD-Pointer OyGUANGZHOU HEYGEARS IMC.INC

Customer experience

Model Colors

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

BlueprintGo

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

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

BlueprintGo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Model Colors free?
Model Colors is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BlueprintGo free?
BlueprintGo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Model Colors or BlueprintGo?
BlueprintGo is rated higher. Model Colors averages 4.6 out of 5 from 445 ratings, while BlueprintGo averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Model Colors or BlueprintGo have ads?
Neither Model Colors nor BlueprintGo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Model Colors or BlueprintGo?
Model Colors ships an update monthly, and BlueprintGo every 5 weeks. Most recently, Model Colors was updated on September 18, 2026 and BlueprintGo on July 19, 2026.

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