Sakuga Mobile vs HEAVYPAINT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
HEAVYPAINT
This app offers a raw digital painting experience with unique tools for creating textured art and quick studies. It's designed for artists who embrace digital chaos and seek a streamlined, mobile art studio.
- Unique digital brushes
- Color Jitter for texture
- Fast color blocking tools
- Line Blend for gradients
- Liquify tool
- Minimalist interface
- Gallery for creations
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Raw digital painting with unique brushes & color chaos. The painter's painting app that celebrates digital chaos. HEAVYPAINT is unapologetically digital and a bit unhinged. It’s a celebration of digital impressionism. Whether you're sketching on the train, painting outdoors, or creating quick color studies, this is your pocket art studio. Unique Digital Tools Color Jitter: Unleash beautiful digital chaos and texture Fan Fill and Lasso Fill for fast color blockins, textured foliage, notan, organic shapes. Rake tool for softening up edges in a graphic way Line Blend for instant gradients Liquify to adjust proportions and shapes Built for Speed & Mobility Perfect pochade box replacement for pleinair painting. Great for quick paintings on public transit, many will finger paint on their phones. Streamlined interface.Focus on pure color and shape without digital clutter. Streamlined Experience Minimalist interface puts painting first Customizable tools that adapt to your style Strong shape design tools for bold, crisp artwork Gallery to review and organize your creations + Plein air painters who want to ditch heavy supplies + Quick color studies and concept sketches + Figure painting and gesture drawing + Artists wanting to rediscover digital painting joy + Anyone seeking a uniquely digital aesthetic HEAVYPAINT balances professional capabilities with unhinged creativity. Embrace procedural randomness / crunchiness / glitchiness that digital enables. Touch grass. Ideal for pleinair painting and quick studies This app is subject to Apple's standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sakuga Mobile at 4.8 against HEAVYPAINT's 4.0. Sakuga Mobile also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (86% vs 58%). HEAVYPAINT's advantage is ratings volume (66 vs 20). On price, update cadence, 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 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Sakuga Mobile asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sakuga Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 66 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Sakuga Mobile's written reviews are positive against 58% of HEAVYPAINT's.
Sakuga Mobile ships an update every 2 months, HEAVYPAINT every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sakuga Mobile | HEAVYPAINT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (20 ratings) — better | 4.0 (66 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 57.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 66 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bryan Martinez Carrizales | HEAVYPOLY, Inc. |
Customer experience
Sakuga Mobile
HEAVYPAINT
Bugs and requests
Sakuga Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
HEAVYPAINT
Reported bugs
3 issues- Gallery crashes
- Artwork files not saving properly
- Eyedropper tool not working as expected
Requested features
3 requests- Improved layer management
- More customization options
- Better color controls and eyedropper tool
In-app purchases
Sakuga Mobile
No in-app purchases
HEAVYPAINT
- Gallery Sync Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Gallery Sync Yearly$19.991 Year
- Unlock Full Version$9.99
