Painter Values Check vs Values at Play
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Painter Values Check
Analyze the lightness and darkness of colors in your artwork or images in real-time using your device's camera. It generates simplified versions to help you assess contrast and focal points, and allows exporting results.
- Real-time value checking via camera
- Analyze imported images
- Generate simplified value versions
- Export result images
- Histogram-based value categorization
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Values are the colors' relative lightness or darkness. They define the contrast and variety in a painting and create a focal point. If you want your painting to work and pop the main shapes should have different values. Painter Values Check allows you to check values in realtime through your device camera and also analyze it or any other image imported from Photo Gallery. The app will generates 3 versions from your original image: the values version and two more simplified values images in order to check if your painting or image is working. Also, you'll be able to export any of the result images :) How does it work? Painter Values Check calculates the histogram of every captured frame and reorganize the values into "Dark", "Middle dark", "Middle light" and "Light" categories in order to help you to check the variations in your painting, drawing or picture. In order to work properly the app needs camera permission — Subscription details 1 year without ads — US$9.99 per year, renewing automatically. Prices may vary by region. Cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.pineappslab.com/privacy.html
Values at Play
This app helps users practice identifying and analyzing values in art. It offers tools to create value studies, inspect specific color values, and find areas matching a chosen value. Users can import their own images for practice.
- Create value studies from images
- Import custom images
- Inspect Denman Ross and RGB values
- Find points matching selected values
- Colorized value studies
- Full-screen value study viewing
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Use "Values at Play" to practice seeing values in art. Practice with one of the images included in the app or import your own image. Values at Play includes: VALUE STUDY Create a Value Study for any image. Choose the number of values to include in the study, and the value study will be created within seconds! View the value study full-screen, and easily toggle between it and the original image. Create "colorized" value studies. IMAGE INSPECTOR Use Image Inspector to find the Denman Ross Value and RGB value of any point on an image. VALUE FINDER Find all the points on an image with the value you've selected. VALUES-TAC-TOE Drag the cross hair to a precise location on the image you've selected. Do you know the value at that point? If so, you're on your way to a "Values-Tac-Toe." If not, keep practicing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Values at Play at 100% against Painter Values Check's 0%. Values at Play also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.1) and ads (none vs shown). Painter Values Check's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Values at Play sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Painter Values Check asks for nothing beyond the download.
Values at Play holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Painter Values Check has 37 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Painter Values Check's written reviews are positive against 100% of Values at Play's.
Painter Values Check ships an update every 2 months, Values at Play every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Painter Values Check | Values at Play |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (37 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Lao | Neil Daly |
Customer experience
Painter Values Check
Values at Play
In-app purchases
Painter Values Check
No in-app purchases
Values at Play
- Values at Play Unlimited$4.99
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