Launch Bay vs Brushrage
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Launch Bay
This app helps players build custom squads for X-Wing The Miniatures Game. It offers a clean interface, frequent updates, and cloud saving for your creations. It's a fan-made tool for enthusiasts of the tabletop game.
- Squadron builder for X-Wing
- Clean user interface
- Frequent updates
- Cloud saving for squadrons
- Fan-made tool
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Launch Bay is a Squadron builder for X-Wing The Miniatures Game with a clean user interface, frequently updated (mostly over the air) and ability to save your squadrons in the cloud in case something happens to your phone! ----------------- Disclaimer: X-Wing: The Miniatures Game is a trademark of Fantasy Flight Games Launch Bay is the work of a fan, and is not in any way endorsed by Fantasy Flight Games, Lucasfilm Ltd., Disney och Twentieth Century Fox and is intended for entertainment and information purposes only. Star Wars, the Star Wars logo, all names and pictures of Star Wars characters, vehicles and any other Star Wars related items are registered trademarks and/or copyrights of Lucasfilm Ltd., and their respective trademark and copyright holders. For mor information on X-Wing: The Miniatures Game please visit http://www.fantasyflightgames.com
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.
- Project organization and tracking
- Model collection management
- Extensive paint library
- Paint set and palette creation
- Custom paint mixing
- Image paint referencing
- Social media sharing
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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)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Brushrage at weekly against Launch Bay's every 4 weeks. Brushrage also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (97% vs 82%). Launch Bay's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). 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.
Brushrage holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 33 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Launch Bay's written reviews are positive against 97% of Brushrage's.
Launch Bay ships an update every 4 weeks, Brushrage weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Launch Bay | Brushrage |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (21 ratings) | 4.8 (33 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | 97.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 33 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Andre Lind | Sebastian Kohl |
Customer experience
Launch Bay
Brushrage
In-app purchases
Launch Bay
No in-app purchases
Brushrage
No in-app purchases
