Colors! Lite vs Poseit
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!
Poseit
This app provides a dynamic 3D posing tool for artists, evolving from a simple drawing mannequin to a versatile reference for human figure drawing and 3D modeling. It offers features like part shuffling and screen rotation for efficient posing, allowing users to improve their drawing skills or export models for other projects.
- Multiple 3D mannequins
- Shuffling of body parts
- Export of 3D models
- Dynamic posing with screen rotation
- Reference for human figure drawing
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I like to think about this app as a natural evolution of the traditional drawing mannequin. As artistis around the world started supporting it and appreciating it, it eveolved beyond my best expectation in what it is now. Muliple mannequins, shuffling of parts, export of 3d models and much more. The screen space rotation method and others automatic features make your posing process fast and dynamic. Pose and view your reference just the way you need it and strengthen and improve your human figure drawing skills or export the 3d models for your 3d projects. Poseit was born as my personal tool to help me drawing the most challenging poses, during the lockdown I had to spend my vacations at home and I gave myself the challenge to polish it and publish it (yes it is my very first app). I hope it now can serve others as good as it served me. If you decide to unlock the pro version please be aware that, as solo indie developer, and being a pet project and not my main job, I cannot guarantee a proper support and further development of this app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Colors! Lite at none against Poseit's 8. Colors! Lite also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). Poseit's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 56 months) and ratings volume (281 vs 17). On price, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Poseit sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Colors! Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Colors! Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Poseit has 281 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Colors! Lite's written reviews are positive against 78% of Poseit's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Colors! Lite ships an update every 56 months, Poseit every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Colors! Lite | Poseit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (17 ratings) — better | 4.3 (281 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.0% of reviews | 77.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 | 281 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 56 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 219 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Collecting Smiles AB | Maurizio Nitti |
Customer experience
Colors! Lite
Poseit
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
Poseit
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Colors! Lite
No in-app purchases
Poseit
- Support with 1 CHF$0.99
- Donate 2 CHF$1.99
- Support the app with 2 CHF$1.99
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- Donate 5 CHF$4.99
- Support with 5 CHF$4.99
- Donate 7 CHF$6.99
- Support Poseit with 7 CHF$6.99
- Donate 10 CHF$9.99
Questions
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