HEAVYPAINT Classic vs Sakuga Mobile
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.
Sakuga Mobile
This app enhances the sakuga viewing experience for artists and fans by providing tools to analyze and interact with high-quality animation sequences. Features include real-time frame counting, segment trimming, and timestamp recognition for quick scene navigation.
- Real-time frame counting
- Frame stepping
- Segment trimming for GIFs/images
- Timestamp recognition in comments
- Autoplay previews
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Sakuga from Japanese 作画 usually refers to a remarkably higher quality sequence, used to highlight a particularly important scene. Sakuga Mobile helps the sakuga community and artist who work on this scenes by adding some features to the sakugabooru expierence like: - Frames count in real time - Frames step - Trim the segment you want to get the frames images (or GIF) - Recognize time stamp on comments so you can tap on them and see right away when an artist sequence begins. - Autoplay previews ...and more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sakuga Mobile at 4.8 against HEAVYPAINT Classic's 4.1. Sakuga Mobile also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (86% vs 54%). HEAVYPAINT Classic's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (179 vs 20). On price, 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
Both are free to download. HEAVYPAINT Classic sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Sakuga Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sakuga Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HEAVYPAINT Classic has 179 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of HEAVYPAINT Classic's written reviews are positive against 86% of Sakuga Mobile's.
HEAVYPAINT Classic ships an update every 5 days, Sakuga Mobile every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | HEAVYPAINT Classic | Sakuga Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (179 ratings) | 4.8 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 54.5% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 179 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | HEAVYPOLY, Inc. | Bryan Martinez Carrizales |
Customer experience
HEAVYPAINT Classic
Sakuga Mobile
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
Sakuga Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HEAVYPAINT Classic
- Seurat Texture Brushes$4.99
- HEAVYPAINT Pro$9.99
Sakuga Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is HEAVYPAINT Classic free?
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