FocalPaint vs Infinite Pumpkins
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FocalPaint
This app offers a unique brush engine for realistic paint simulation, pigment mixing, and canvas textures. It allows for custom brush and layer creation using Metal GPU or Javascript code, with advanced features like spectral color models and Apple Pencil Pro support.
- Realistic paint and pigment mixing
- Custom brush and layer creation
- Transparent ink simulation
- Apple Pencil Pro support
- Spectral color model
- Open source shader code library
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FocalPaint's unique brush engine simulates thick paint and real pigment mixing with accurate physics models. Features: - Realistic color blending behaves like real paint! - Real canvas texture and paint thickness - Transparent Ink simulation - Open Source GPU shader code library for reference and customization - Write your own custom brush with Metal GPU or Javascript code - Write your own custom layer modes with Metal GPU code - Apple Pencil Pro support with hover - 16 channel "spectral" color model (256 bits per pixel) - Wide color gamut (P3) Please note: Apple A12 GPU or newer is required Terms of Use: https://www.focalpaint.com/p/terms-of-use.html Privacy Policy: https://www.focalpaint.com/p/privacy.html Special Thanks to: Scott Allen Burns Troy James Sobotka & Friends colour-science.org python library MyPaint painting software team Anna Timm (@anti-art)
Infinite Pumpkins
Explore a generative art experiment where each unique creation holds a fragment of a famous painting. Can you identify the artwork? Some pieces evoke joy, others sadness, and some may not even resemble pumpkins.
- Generative art experiment
- Fragments of famous paintings
- Interactive art exploration
- Unique visual creations
- Surprise elements
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Each one carries a small piece of a famous painting — can you guess any of them? Some of them are happy. Some of them are not. Some of them talk. Some of them cry. Some of them are not pumpkins at all!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Infinite Pumpkins at Free against FocalPaint's $4.99. Infinite Pumpkins also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). FocalPaint's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (13 vs 2). On review sentiment, 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
Infinite Pumpkins is free to download; FocalPaint costs $4.99 up front. FocalPaint sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Infinite Pumpkins asks for nothing beyond the download.
Infinite Pumpkins holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FocalPaint has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of FocalPaint's written reviews are positive against 86% of Infinite Pumpkins's.
FocalPaint ships an update monthly, Infinite Pumpkins every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FocalPaint | Infinite Pumpkins |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (13 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 557 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | brien dieterle | Pavel Alekseev |
Customer experience
FocalPaint
Infinite Pumpkins
In-app purchases
FocalPaint
- Generous Tip$0.99
- Big Tip$4.99
- Huge Tip$9.99
Infinite Pumpkins
No in-app purchases
