HEAVYPAINT Classic vs Graintouch
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.
Graintouch
Create digital art with a unique printmaking aesthetic. This app simulates the look and feel of Risograph printing, allowing for layered colors, organic brush strokes, and textured effects. Export your work as clean vector stencils for print.
- Organic vector brush for layered colors
- Realistic print simulation
- Minimalist user interface
- Curated color palette
- Vector stencil export
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Graintouch is a drawing app with the soul of print. Inspired by Risograph™ aesthetics, it lets you layer, blend, and create with the warmth of real ink—right on your screen. BOOL BRUSH A bold, organic vector brush that stacks colors like ink on paper. Blend, overlap, knockout and build rich textures with effortless strokes. PRINT SIMULATION See your artwork as if it just rolled off a risograph. Offset imperfections, layered tints, and the charm of real ink—without the mess. MINIMAL UI Nothing in your way, just pure drawing. A clean, focused space where tools feel like an extension of your hand. COLORFUL CONSTRAINTS A playful palette of 18 handpicked inks, straight from the riso universe. Instead of endless choice, you get meaningful constraints that spark creativity—just like mixing real inks on a print run. VECTOR STENCILS Every Layer becomes a crisp, resolution-independent stencil. Your drawings export as clean vector stencils, perfect for scaling, separating by color, and bringing straight to print—no loss, just pure shapes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: HEAVYPAINT Classic at Free against Graintouch's $9.99. HEAVYPAINT Classic also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and rating (4.1 vs 3.7). Graintouch's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#27 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ads, device support 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; Graintouch costs $9.99 up front. HEAVYPAINT Classic sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Graintouch asks for nothing beyond the download.
HEAVYPAINT Classic holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HEAVYPAINT Classic has 179 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 52% of HEAVYPAINT Classic's written reviews are positive against 57% of Graintouch's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
HEAVYPAINT Classic ships an update every 5 days, Graintouch every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HEAVYPAINT Classic | Graintouch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (179 ratings) — better | 3.7 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 51.6% of reviews | 56.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 179 — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #27 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HEAVYPOLY, Inc. | IORAMA AB |
Customer experience
HEAVYPAINT Classic
Graintouch
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
Graintouch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HEAVYPAINT Classic
- Seurat Texture Brushes$4.99
- HEAVYPAINT Pro$9.99
Graintouch
No in-app purchases
Questions
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