Model Colors vs Kitpick
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Kitpick
Organize your scale model kit collection, track your building progress with photos and notes, and get random project suggestions. This app offers a comprehensive way to manage your hobby inventory and build history.
- Stash and wishlist management
- Build progress tracking with photos
- Random next build suggestions
- Collection stats and overview
- PDF build journal export
- Offline functionality
- Customizable themes
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Your scale model stash, organized. Kitpick is a personal kit manager for scale model builders. Track your stash, document builds with photos and notes, and let the app pick your next project when you can't decide. STASH & WISHLIST - Add kits with photos, brand, scale, category, and price - Filter and browse in grid or list view - Search kits on Scalemates and eBay - Keep a wishlist for kits you're planning to buy BUILD TRACKING - Start a build from your stash with one tap - Document progress with timestamped photo updates and notes - Pause builds and pick them up later - Mark builds complete with ratings and notes - Export your build journal as a PDF PICK NEXT BUILD - Can't decide what to build next? Let Kitpick pick for you - Daily random kit suggestion from your stash - Exclude kits you're not ready to build yet STATS & COLLECTION OVERVIEW - See your stash at a glance: counts, brands, categories - Track completed builds and ratings - View your longest-sitting kits and newest additions - Stash value overview THEMES & CUSTOMIZATION - Multiple dark and light themes - Grid layout options (2, 3, or 4 per row) - Grid and list view modes CURATED RESOURCES - Discover tab with hand-picked YouTube channels and modeling resources Kitpick is fully offline. No ads, no accounts, no data collection, no internet required. Your collection stays on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Model Colors at Free against Kitpick's $0.99. Model Colors also leads on ratings volume (447 vs 1). Kitpick's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 61%) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). On 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
Model Colors is free to download; Kitpick costs $0.99 up front. Model Colors sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Kitpick asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kitpick holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Model Colors has 447 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Model Colors's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kitpick's.
| Parameter | Model Colors | Kitpick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (447 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 447 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | D-Pointer Oy | Jussi Seppala |
Customer experience
Model Colors
Kitpick
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
Kitpick
No in-app purchases









