Paint World vs Hexagon Place
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Paint World
Explore a vibrant world of digital art where you can freely express your creativity through drawing. Connect with other artists by sharing your creations and engaging in visual communication.
- Freeform drawing tools
- Share artwork with others
- Visual communication with users
- Explore user-created art
- Social art platform
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In this app, you will enter a world of painting. where you can draw as you will, and you can see pictures painted by others, and communicate with others by pictures, it is very cool, does not it?
Hexagon Place
Create and share digital art linked to real-world locations. Turn the world into your personal digital canvas and express your artistic vision anywhere.
- Create digital artworks
- Share art tied to locations
- Express creativity digitally
- World as a canvas
- Location-based art sharing
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Digital Arts: Express your creativity by creating and sharing digital artworks tied to specific locations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hexagon Place at 5.0 against Paint World's 2.3. Hexagon Place also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). Paint World's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.6). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hexagon Place holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
Paint World ships an update every 3 months, Hexagon Place fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Paint World | Hexagon Place |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 95.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Colin Shockley | Hexagon Place, Inc. |
Customer experience
Paint World
Hexagon Place
In-app purchases
Paint World
No in-app purchases
Hexagon Place
No in-app purchases
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