Magic Color 168 vs schirleMix
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Magic Color 168
This app helps artists find the perfect alcohol marker colors from photos or camera input. It provides electronic color cards, adjustable color tones, and RGB/HEX values for design projects. Achieve professional-level paintings with this tool.
- Alcohol marker color matching
- Color matching from camera/photos
- Electronic color card
- Adjustable color tone, saturation, brightness
- RGB and HEX value retrieval
- Assists in design drawings
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1. Developed for alcohol markers, Help you quickly match the closest color alcohol marker. 2. Obtain images and their colors through two methods: a camera and a mobile photo album. 3. Electronic color card, allowing you to check the color card anytime and anywhere. 4. Easily adjust color tone, saturation, and brightness, obtain RGB and HEX values, and assist in various design drawings (such as web design). 5. By using our alcohol markers painting kit, you can effectively solve problems such as too many colors, difficult selection, inaccurate colors, color difference and so on. 6. Using the app and our alcohol markers, you can get perfect paintings like professionals.
schirleMix
Generate precise paint mixing recipes from reference photos using your own paint collection. Analyzes images to suggest colors and provides filters for studying references. Offers AI guidance on mixing techniques and palette suggestions.
- Custom palettes from 150+ oil paints
- Image analysis for color extraction
- Paint recipes based on real paint behavior
- Reference image study filters
- Flesh and landscape focus modes
- AI mentor for mixing and critique
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Pick any color from a reference photo and get a precise mixing recipe using the paints you actually own. Recipes are based on real paint behavior, not just RGB math, so what you mix on the palette matches what you see on screen. FEATURES - Custom palettes from 150+ oil paints, or start with 8 presets (Zorn, portrait, landscape, impressionist, and more) - Every recipe uses only the paints you've selected - Image analysis pulls key colors from any photo and shows which of your paints cover the scene - Posterize, notan, quantize, cutout, grayscale, blur, and geometric simplification filters to study your reference - Flesh focus mode prioritizes white-base mixes and earth pigments for skin tones - Landscape focus mode favors natural greens, blues, and earths - AI mentor for mixing technique, palette suggestions, and painting critique — knows your current color and recipe
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Magic Color 168 at Free against schirleMix's $9.99. Magic Color 168 also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). schirleMix's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.0). On 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
Magic Color 168 is free to download; schirleMix costs $9.99 up front. schirleMix sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Magic Color 168 asks for nothing beyond the download.
schirleMix holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Magic Color 168 has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Magic Color 168 | schirleMix |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 婧茜 吴 | stephen schirle |
Customer experience
Magic Color 168
schirleMix
In-app purchases
Magic Color 168
No in-app purchases
schirleMix
- 100 AI Credits$1.99
- 700 AI Credits$9.99
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