HEAVYPAINT Classic vs Realistic Paint Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HEAVYPAINT Classic
A streamlined painting application focused on pure colors and shapes. It offers essential tools for artists, including improved smudge and blur, layers, masking, and erasing. Ideal for quick sketches, studies, and plein air work.
- Improved Smudge tool
- Improved Blur tool
- Layers
- Masking
- Clipping
- Erase tool
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HEAVYPAINT ClassicA simple yet secretly powerful painting app! Focus on pure colors and shapes with a streamlined interface. Ideal for plein air painting, color notes, sketches and studies. + Improved Smudge + Improved Blur + Layers + Masking + Erase + Clipping 30 day trial with full functionality.
Realistic Paint Studio
This digital art software offers a familiar art station experience with realistic brushes, pencils, and markers. It allows users to create art in drawing, watercolor, and oil painting styles with a unique color engine and diverse canvas textures. Step-by-step tutorials and live demonstrations guide users through the creative process.
- Realistic color engine
- Drawing, Watercolor, Oil Painting styles
- Realistic brushes and tools
- Realistic canvases with diverse textures
- Live demonstration of drawing methods
- Step-by-step tutorials
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Realistic Paint Studio is a unique digital art software. The program combines the simplicity of traditional tools and pioneering innovations in digital art. No special education is required to work in Realistic Paint Studio. The interface is designed to show a familiar art station with real paper, brushes, pencils, pens, and markers, etc. instead of a complicated and hard-to-understand graphic editor. With Realistic Paint Studio you will forget that you are using a digital editor, being completely absorbed in the art process! Easy-to-use, yet powerful engine allows to draw and paint in any desirable style! - "Realistic color" - Unique color engine! - 3 creative styles: Drawing, Watercolor, Oil Painting "Realistic brushes" carefully designed to convey all the nuances of real brushes, pencils, pens, markers, etc. - “Realistic showcase” - You can instantly have a look at your picture within a beautiful scene - “Realistic Canvases” - 15 types of sketchbooks, paper sheets, and canvases with 45 different textures scanned from real materials. - “Realistic palettes” - Most of the brushes have their own palette's presets. - “Live demonstration” - Instant demonstration of drawing methods for the selected tool - Live liquid watercolor drops - Step by step tutorials - Сoloring with the edge control function
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: HEAVYPAINT Classic at Free against Realistic Paint Studio's $11.99. HEAVYPAINT Classic also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). Realistic Paint Studio's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (67% vs 54%). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and iOS requirement 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
HEAVYPAINT Classic is free to download; Realistic Paint Studio costs $11.99 up front. HEAVYPAINT Classic sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Realistic Paint Studio sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Realistic Paint Studio holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 179 and 764 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of HEAVYPAINT Classic's written reviews are positive against 67% of Realistic Paint Studio's.
HEAVYPAINT Classic ships an update every 5 days, Realistic Paint Studio every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HEAVYPAINT Classic | Realistic Paint Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $11.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (179 ratings) | 4.7 (764 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | 67.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 179 | 764 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 1005 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HEAVYPOLY, Inc. | Aleksandr Komarov |
Customer experience
HEAVYPAINT Classic
Realistic Paint Studio
User reviews
HEAVYPAINT Classic
From 179 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Unique, innovative painting tools and brushes
- 💡 Forces deliberate, decisive artistic decisions
- 🎯 Minimalist interface encourages focus on fundamentals
- 🔄 Playback feature to review artwork creation
- 🎪 Fun, experimental approach to digital art
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and data loss
- 😤 Confusing, unintuitive UI/UX
- 🔄 Inconsistent UI changes between updates
- 💰 Switched from one-time purchase to subscription model
- 🚫 Poor documentation and lack of tutorials
Realistic Paint Studio
From 764 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Realistic and immersive painting experience
- 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
- 🎨 Excellent brush dynamics and color blending
- 🎨 Wide variety of traditional media tools
- 🎨 Aesthetically pleasing presentation
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and stability issues
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🔒 Limited export options (no PSD, no transparent background)
- 🔒 Restricted canvas size and resolution
- 🔒 Lack of customization for brushes and tools
Bugs and requests
HEAVYPAINT Classic
Reported bugs
18 issues- App crashes frequently, causing work loss
- Auto-save feature unreliable despite crashes
- Canvas flips upside down randomly
- Transform tool deletes paintings
- Undo button requires multiple taps
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- Zoom functionality buggy and destabilizes canvas
- Canvas resize not working
- Image corruption with layer duplication
- Eye dropper functionality haphazard
- Fill tool doesn't work with selected colors
- Pressure setting eliminates mark-making
- Brush size settings change across all tools
- Some brush textures cannot be changed
- Random blobs appear on export
- App crashes when switching between drawings
- Trial period not clearing for paid users
- Incompatibility with SE2 and older devices
- Speaker popping on undo action
Requested features
15 requests- Gesture controls (2-finger undo, 3-finger redo)
- Pressure sensitivity for brush size
- Lasso tool for moving selections
- Redo button functionality
- Canvas zoom capability
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- Resizable/collapsible UI elements
- Ability to move canvas with single finger
- Line work capabilities
- Better brush texture preset selection
- Canvas size input field
- Eraser tool
- Moveable UI panels
- Tutorial or onboarding guide
- Better save/export documentation
- Pressure control for size on all tools
Realistic Paint Studio
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes when using the camera feature
- Inconsistent behavior with the undo/redo function
- Issues with the color mixing in the palette
- Delayed response and lag when using Apple Pencil
Requested features
5 requests- Add support for PSD export with layers
- Implement canvas rotation and resizing options
- Allow for more brush customization and pressure sensitivity
- Improve color picker and palette functionality
- Introduce a simple, distraction-free canvas mode
In-app purchases
HEAVYPAINT Classic
- Seurat Texture Brushes$4.99
- HEAVYPAINT Pro$9.99
Realistic Paint Studio
- Artistic brushFree
- Mechanical penFree
- Glitz penFree
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- Glass penFree
- Fountain penFree
- Calligraphy brushFree
- Hieroglyph brushFree
- Diamond brushFree
- Album with six color sheetsFree
- All brushes from the VIP boxFree
- Dragon brush$0.99
- Crystal brush$0.99
Questions
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