Colors! Lite vs Paintstorm Studio Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Colors! Lite
Engage in a simple yet powerful painting experience and explore a vibrant online gallery of user-created artwork. Replay your own creations or learn from others by watching their painting process.
- Simple painting tools
- Online art gallery
- Painting process playback
- High-resolution canvas
- Branching from existing paintings
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Colors! Lite provides a fun and simple painting experience and invites the user to browse and participate in an online gallery consisting of countless beautiful paintings. If you like Colors! Lite, you should check out the full version of Colors! which allows you use unlimited save-slots, upload your works to the Colors! Gallery and export your paintings in a higher resolution. Go to http://colorslive.com/downloads_iphone to learn more. SIMPLE BUT POWERFUL Designed to have a quick and non-intrusive workflow, Colors! provides the tools you need, without any of the distractions. INTEGRATED GALLERY Half of the fun of painting is to show others the result. Visit the Colors! Gallery to see all the amazing works other are doing in Colors!. PLAYBACK ANY PAINTING Colors! always records the full painting process. View your own playback, and branch it off at any point to take it in a different direction. Or view the playback of any painting in the gallery to learn from other artists. HIGH RESOLUTION Taking full advantage of the Retina screens, you can paint in 2048x1536 resolution!
Paintstorm Studio Lite
This app offers professional digital painting tools for artists of all levels. It provides extensive brush customization, stroke correction, and intuitive controls to enhance the mobile art creation experience. Discover new possibilities for digital drawing with advanced features and Apple Pencil support.
- Extensive brush customization
- Stroke post-correction
- Apple Pencil support
- Dynamic interface
- Mirror drawing
- Standard tools pack
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Paintstorm Studio is the first iOS App designed not only for simple sketches, but professional digital painting of any level, genre and technique. Paintstorm helps you to discover the magnificence and unleash the full potential of Apple Pencil and brings you to a whole new level of drawing. Creating an art masterpiece has never been so mobile. A major feature of Paintstorm Studio is the array of brushes to choose from. We did our best so that you can easily and quickly adjust the brushes suitable to your painting style. Anyone who has ever painted knows it's hard to overestimate the painting tool and the importance of all the seemingly insignificant details. We tried not to miss any of them. Our goal was to create an intuitive, simple-to-use but at the same time functionally powerful tool that brings the process of digital painting to a new level, making it as comfortable as possible. - Full control of all brush options (Incredible possibilities for brush settings) - Bristle brushes of any form and kind - Stroke post correction (You can take an action on any option. Not only on the stroke thickness) - Parameters binding to the perspective - Dynamic interface (Global interface scale, panels scale, opacity, color) - Custom panels - Full controlled mask-brush (Each brush can work as mask for other brush) - Takes underlayer's color while blending - "Close gaps" function when you fill or select - Dirty brush mode - Stroke stabilizer - Usable color mixer - Different gradient strokes - Mirror drawing - Standard tools pack (Lasso, Magic wand, Crop, Fill, Gradient and etc) - Control of the random amounts - Apple Pencil support (Pressure, Tilt, Direction) Lite version restrictions: - It is not possible to load and save psd files - A watermark is added to the picture Upgrade to the full version and get rid of the limits!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Colors! Lite at 71% against Paintstorm Studio Lite's 24%. Colors! Lite also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and device support (3 vs 1). Paintstorm Studio Lite's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 56 months) and ratings volume (267 vs 16). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Colors! Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paintstorm Studio Lite has 267 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Colors! Lite's written reviews are positive against 24% of Paintstorm Studio Lite's.
Colors! Lite ships an update every 56 months, Paintstorm Studio Lite every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Colors! Lite | Paintstorm Studio Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (16 ratings) — better | 4.0 (267 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.0% of reviews — better | 24.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 267 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 56 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Collecting Smiles AB | Sergei Komarov |
Customer experience
Colors! Lite
Paintstorm Studio Lite
User reviews
Colors! Lite
From 16 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Intuitive and simple drawing interface
- 🖼️ Amazing gallery with playback feature to watch artwork creation
- 💰 Free lite version available
- 🌈 Excellent color wheel for easy color selection
- 📱 Works well on multiple platforms (iPhone, iPad, 3DS, DS)
Room to improve
- 💸 Full version is expensive ($4.99-$5.00)
- 🚫 Cannot save drawings in lite version
- 🚫 Cannot upload to gallery in lite version
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues
- 🐛 App closes unexpectedly when switching apps
Paintstorm Studio Lite
From 267 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💎 Excellent brushes and color mixing
- 🎨 Sophisticated drawing tools
- 🖌️ Advanced interface like desktop apps
- 🖥️ Powerful features on par with desktop software
Room to improve
- 🚧 Cluttered and confusing interface
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and performance issues
- 💦 Annoying watermark on exported artwork
- 🔍 Lack of clear instructions and tutorials
Bugs and requests
Colors! Lite
Reported bugs
11 issues- App crashes on startup or during loading
- Cannot connect to gallery servers
- Drawings disappear when exiting and re-entering app
- Playback shows invisible lines or incomplete drawings
- Undo function corrupts entire artwork
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- Finger input registers in wrong location on screen
- Playback flips screen orientation
- Gallery navigation resets to first image when exiting
- App incompatible with older iOS versions (3.0 requirement)
- Occasional crashes when drawing
- Drawing doesn't appear on screen while creating
Requested features
14 requests- Save functionality in lite version (at least 2-3 drawings)
- Built-in eraser tool
- Layers support
- Lower price for full version ($1.99-$2.99 suggested)
- Auto-save when exiting app
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- Ability to import photos from camera roll
- Comment feature on gallery paintings
- Search button for gallery
- Cross-device purchase compatibility
- Undo/redo buttons
- Brush customization with tilt control for both opacity and thickness
- Pressure sensitivity on iPhone/iPad
- Ability to view gallery without full version purchase
- Promotional sales or free events
Paintstorm Studio Lite
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes when opening or switching between projects
- Brush settings and color wheel disappearing unexpectedly
- Inability to save or recover unsaved artwork
Requested features
4 requests- Remove watermark option
- Ability to import photos and images
- Better organization and customization of UI
- More intuitive brush and tool controls
In-app purchases
Colors! Lite
No in-app purchases
Paintstorm Studio Lite
No in-app purchases
Questions
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