Paint vs Orb
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Paint
Create and share augmented reality experiences by adding 3D holograms and special effects. Paint and sculpt in 3D, record your creations, and remix your world with mixed reality.
- Add 3D holograms
- Apply special FX
- Paint and sculpt in 3D
- Record video
- Share with friends
- Mixed reality storytelling
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Paint-AR is an augmented reality app for creatives. Add 3D holograms & special FX, paint & sculpt in 3D. Join featured artists, record video & share with friends. Remix your world & tell trippy mixed reality tales.
Orb
This proactive AI assistant anticipates your needs, offering timely reminders and updates without being asked. It allows you to control your computer remotely via your phone, handling tasks like file organization and providing voice-first, human-like interactions. Your data remains private as it runs on your own hardware.
- Proactive notifications
- Remote computer control
- Voice-first interaction
- Open-source server
- Customizable AI engine
- Private data handling
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7:02 AM. You haven't said a word yet. "Morning. Rain clears by nine. Your ten o'clock moved to ten thirty — and that form you've been dodging is due today, so I put it at the top of your list." Every assistant until now has waited to be asked. Orb doesn't wait. IT KNOWS WHAT'S UP Orb keeps a running sense of your day and reaches out when something actually matters: "You've got four commits sitting unpushed since Tuesday. Worth protecting before the weekend." "NVDA's up four percent since you asked me to watch it." "You've been at this for twenty hours. I moved tomorrow's first ping to ten so you can sleep in." And when nothing matters? Silence. The bar for interrupting you is high. YOUR COMPUTER, IN YOUR POCKET Run the free, open-source Orb server on your own computer and your phone becomes its remote. Ask for real work from anywhere — "clean up my downloads folder" — and carry on with your day until the receipt lands: "Done. 214 files sorted, three gigs freed." Your machine did the work. Your phone just told you. JUST SAY IT Voice-first, human answers. "Remind me at eight" — "Done, eight tonight." No menus, no forms, no robot voice reading bullet points. IT REMEMBERS What you said last week. What you asked it never to let you skip. Where you left off. One continuous assistant across voice and chat — whichever AI engine you plug in, Orb stays Orb. ACTUALLY YOURS No account. No developer cloud — we couldn't read your data if we wanted to, because there's nothing of ours to read it with. Choose which AI powers it, swap anytime, name it what you like. Self-host and nothing ever leaves hardware you own. You've been promised this assistant for fifteen years. Nobody built it, because it can't be built in someone else's cloud — an assistant this close to your life only works if it's yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Orb at none against Paint's 4. Paint's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating and ads 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. Paint sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Orb asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Paint against 4.0 for Orb. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paint has 18 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Paint | Orb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (18 ratings) | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 857 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 12+ |
| Developer | James Tunick | NATHAN BOYD LANGLEY |
Customer experience
Paint
Orb
In-app purchases
Paint
- Magic Brush Pack$0.99
- 3D Object Pack$0.99
- Special FX Pack$0.99
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- Premium 3 Pack$1.99
Orb
No in-app purchases









