Comparison

Paint Retro vs Munus Paint

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Paint Retro

A user-friendly raster graphics editor for quick image editing, doodles, and detailed artwork. Offers a wide range of brushes, shapes, text tools, and color options. Supports various image formats and transparent backgrounds.

Highlights
  • Multiple brush types
  • Shape creation tools
  • Text with stylish fonts
  • Color palette and custom palettes
  • Transparent background support
  • Import and export various image formats
  • Unlimited undo/redo
Features
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Paint Retro is a simple, fun drawing app for quick everyday image editing — from a few doodles to detailed artwork. Easy for beginners, handy for everyone. CREATE & EDIT • Draw freely with many brushes: pencil, brush, calligraphy pen & brush, crayon, watercolour, neon, glow, splatter, airbrush, and more • Adjust brush size and opacity for the perfect stroke • Shapes made easy: line, curve, rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, polygon • Fill tool, eraser, eyedropper (pick any color), and zoom & pan • Add text with a huge collection of stylish fonts • Select, move, and edit parts of your image • Unlimited undo & redo COLORS & THEMES • Rich color palette plus a full HSV color picker • Create and save your own custom color palettes • Switch app themes — colors and icon styles — to make it yours • Download extra theme packs WORK WITH YOUR IMAGES • Draw in full color or classic black-and-white • Transparent background support • Import photos to edit or draw over • Save and open as PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, or TIFF • Save to Photos or share anywhere GO VIP • Unlock every premium theme • Enjoy an ad-free experience Start painting today — no fuss, just fun.

About

Munus Paint

Features
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Munus Paint is a complete drawing and painting app for iPad and iPhone, free of charge. In Latin, munus was a gift given to the community: this app is a gift to everyone. No account, no ads, no subscriptions, no watermark on exports. It works without the Internet and collects no data at all: your artworks stay on your device. BRUSHES • More than 30 brushes: pencils, pens, markers, watercolor, oil, chalk, airbrush, smudge, blur and erasers. • Fine-tune every brush: size, opacity, fade, jitter, scatter, texture, and response to pressure, tilt and speed with Apple Pencil. • Create your own brushes and tips, and share them as files. • Stabilizer for clean lines, and a smart shape tool that straightens lines, circles and polygons. LAYERS • Layers and nested folders, 28 blend modes, clipping masks, alpha lock. • Adjustment layers you can edit at any time. • Vector layers with editable points, and text layers with your own fonts. • Halftone for comics and manga. TOOLS • Freehand, rectangular and elliptical selections, magic wand and color range. • Free transform, perspective and mesh warp. • Rulers: straight, circular, elliptical, perspective, mirror and kaleidoscope. • Shapes, text, fill bucket, gradients and many filters: curves, levels, gradient map, blurs, outlines, glows, shadows, noise and more. ANIMATION AND TIMELAPSE • Frame-by-frame animation with onion skin, exported as MP4, GIF, APNG or an image sequence. • Your timelapse records while you draw: replay it and export it as a video. FILES • Export to PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, PDF and layered PSD; every layer also as a separate PNG. • Import photos and PSD files. • Gallery with folders, search and custom order. • Full backup of artworks, brushes and settings in a single file. • Deleted artworks stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days: recover them with a tap. • Color profiles: canvases for screens (sRGB), more vivid (Display P3) or for print (CMYK) with soft proofing and CMYK values; import your print shop's profile and export real CMYK files (JPEG, TIFF, PDF, PSD) with "Black only (K)", plus grayscale and 1-bit black and white. FOR EVERYONE • Day and night modes, large text, English and Italian. • Complete built-in help with search, in English and Italian, that works without the Internet too, plus short tips the first time you use a feature. • VoiceOver, keyboard shortcuts and easy-to-tap buttons. • Designed for iPad with Apple Pencil, comfortable with fingers and on iPhone too. On iPad the panel can be made narrower and Layers, Brush and Color can be detached as windows over the canvas.

Screenshots

Paint Retro4 screens
Munus Paint4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Munus Paint at none against Paint Retro's 1. Paint Retro's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Paint Retro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Munus Paint asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Paint Retro ships an update every 8 days, Munus Paint every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 14, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Paint Retro versus Munus Paint: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaint RetroMunus Paint
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews32.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUyen Nguyen Thi KimFiorenzo Pilla

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Paint Retro

One-time1
  • Vip No Ads and Icon$1.99
None

Munus Paint

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Paint Retro free?
Paint Retro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Munus Paint free?
Munus Paint is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Paint Retro or Munus Paint have ads?
Neither Paint Retro nor Munus Paint shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Paint Retro or Munus Paint?
Paint Retro ships an update every 8 days, and Munus Paint every 3 weeks. Most recently, Paint Retro was updated on November 14, 2026 and Munus Paint on November 10, 2026.

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