Art Tools vs Coloring and Paint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Art Tools
This app helps artists plan their compositions and analyze subjects before painting. It allows you to import photos, apply grids, adjust values, and manipulate images to achieve the desired proportions and layout for your artwork.
- Import photos or use camera
- Apply various grids (e.g., golden ratio)
- Adjust image values and color
- Resize, rotate, and move photo
- Value checker tool
- Save and email projects
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Are you ever in such a hurry to get started painting that you forget to design your canvas or analyze your subject matter? "Take time to save time." Use Accurasee Art Tools to get your composition and your proportions right from the start. 1. Take a photo of desired subject. Or choose reference from the camera roll. 2. Choose the window opening to match your canvas 3. Choose from a selection of grids including the golden ratio or use no grid at all. 4. Alter size relationships, change value, color or thickness of frame and grid. 5. Using 2 finger method, enlarge, shrink, rotate and move your photo for desired compositional effect. 6. Quickly change photo to B/W and color 7. Use the value checker tool to check for proper values. 8. Save and store your project for future reference or email to yourself. We hope that you enjoy Art Tools. If you like Art Tools, please give us a review and share it with your friends. We'd really appreciate any feedback you might have. Thanks and keep drawing!
Coloring and Paint
This app offers a virtual coloring book experience with a variety of pre-made drawings, including letters and numbers for learning. Users can customize pen colors and shapes, save their artwork, and correct mistakes. The full version is ad-free and unlocks all features.
- Virtual coloring book
- Pre-made drawings
- Freehand drawing
- Learn letters and numbers
- Customizable pen color and shape
- Save creations
- Mistake correction
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Coloring and Paint is a virtual coloring book. You can choose from many drawings ready to color or to draw freely from a blank sheet. Among the drawings there are also letters and numbers so you can learn them while having fun. The application has several features that allow you to change the color and the shape of the pen, save your own creations or correct mistakes. The full version of the app includes many drawings, all features unlocked and is also advertising free. NOTE: All the images used in this app are in the public domain, if accidentally there are copyrighted pictures please contact us and they will be removed immediately.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Coloring and Paint at Free against Art Tools's $2.99. Coloring and Paint also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Art Tools's advantage is rating (3.4 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, 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
Coloring and Paint is free to download; Art Tools costs $2.99 up front. Art Tools sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Coloring and Paint asks for nothing beyond the download.
Art Tools holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Art Tools has 253 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Art Tools ships an update every 8 months, Coloring and Paint every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Art Tools | Coloring and Paint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.4 (253 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 253 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #188 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Accurasee | Raffaele Amuso |
Customer experience
Art Tools
Coloring and Paint
Bugs and requests
Art Tools
Reported bugs
20 issues- Cannot update to paid version
- Shop not open
- App abandoned by developers
- No support or help
- Bugs in updated version
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- Split view stuttery
- Difficulty seeing options
- Importing photos doesn't work
- Editing feature blank screen
- App freezes when opening photos
- App crashes when uploading photos
- App crashes when turning photos
- App crashes when saving photos
- App crashes on iPad
- App crashes on iPhone
- App crashes on iPad mini
- App needs Adobe Flash
- Buttons don't always work
- App keeps crashing
- Cannot download content
Requested features
29 requests- New app will be better
- Make grid intro clearer
- Vertical plumb lines
- Option for square paintings
- Option for horizontal paintings
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- Rotate photos by 90 degrees
- Fit to frame button
- Golden ratio harmonics
- Spiral grid
- Print project with grid
- Implement user suggestions
- Rectangular grid options
- Fibonacci curve
- Moveable grid instead of picture
- More plumb lines
- Slider for grid squares
- Comparison tool for painting progress
- Color picker
- Color scheme helper
- Update value viewer app
- Manual frame size adjustment
- Landscape option for frame
- More stable two-finger sizing
- Separate vertical/horizontal/diagonal sizing
- Support for iPad
- Fix bugs on iPad mini
- Fix bugs on iPhone
- Fix bugs on iPad
- Fix crashing when uploading/turning/saving photos
Coloring and Paint
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Art Tools
- Art Tools Pro$2.99
Coloring and Paint
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Art Tools free?
Is Coloring and Paint free?
Which has better reviews, Art Tools or Coloring and Paint?
Do Art Tools or Coloring and Paint have ads?
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