Comparison

Drawing Box Ltd vs Real Paint mixing tools LITE

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

Head to head
About

Drawing Box Ltd

This mobile studio offers a wide range of tools for sketching and painting, from pencils and brushes to creative pen effects and stickers. Users can enjoy features like symmetrical drawing, unlimited undo, and video replays of their creations. It's ideal for quick sketches, artistic studies, and sharing finished artwork.

Highlights
  • Multiple pencil modes and art brushes
  • Creative pen effects and stickers
  • Symmetrical drawing and painting
  • Video replay of artwork
  • Unlimited undo/redo functionality
  • Pictures for coloring and leisure
Features
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Enjoy the LIGHT VERSION of one of the most awarded painting app on the market. You will be surprised by the incredible number of features provided by this app. Bring along this small mobile studio with you, make life sketching, studying forms, shapes, architecture, human figures. This is an excellent tool for a quick sketch, even drawn with small modeling effects with the smooth art brushes. Publish your works directly on Twitter, Facebook or Sina Weibo. Send them to the photo library or to your friends by mail. Main features:  - 3 pencil modes  - 3 art brushes - 2 paint rollers - 3 eraser sizes  - 78 premixed and ready to use colors. - 10 incredible creative pen effects. - 187 stickers in 3 sizes  - Video replay of your paintings  - Symmetrical drawing and painting. - Unlimited undo, redo, clear drawing page  - Pictures for coloring and leisure activities - Drawing lessons (in-app purchase) - You can choose a color for the canvas background from the 78 premixed colors. How it works: just push the color tube to the top and release it.

About

Real Paint mixing tools LITE

This application helps painters find precise paint mixing recipes by analyzing colors from images. It supports various color spaces and can approximate saturation to fit digital colors into real paint gamuts, reducing waste and aiding artists.

Highlights
  • Calculate paint mixing recipes from images
  • Supports multiple color spaces (sRGB, P3, CMYK, Lab, etc.)
  • Approximates saturation to fit digital colors into paint gamuts
  • Reduces paint and money waste
  • Useful for art students and professionals
  • Works on iPhone and iPad
Features
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RPaintLite is fully functional with a limited number of Paint Lines ("ideal paint" and the airbrush paint "Ferrario Acrylic Pen Colors" are available). Please note that RPaintLite includes 8 paint bases of each Paint Line. These bases are Black, White and 3 or 6 colored ones, according to your Palette selection. These bases are fixed, and all color recipes use these and only these. Therefore, once you've selected your real Paint Line (Ferrario Acrylic Pen Colors in this free version), you can purchase the 8 bases and use them for all your paintings. The 6 colored bases of each Paint Line were optimized to cover the widest possible OPAQUE color space offering you as many as possible mixable colors. These tools use measurements of real paint spectra, so big part of the RGB/P3 space can be mixed, but not all RGB/P3 colors. This is not a limitation of the app, just physics. There are also many colors which can be mixed, even if they don't belong to the RGB/P3 color space (you can find these by manually varying the paint base amounts on the "mixing" page and reading the Lab values). RPaintLite can be used on iPhone or iPad with iOS 9.0 or later. Even an old iPhone 4S or mini iPad can find a second life and become a Real Paint Mixing Device! Painters can select colors from an image and have the corresponding paint mixing recipe computed. This is very useful to art students, to painters with color vision difficulties or to those working in the painting conservation and restoration fields. Paint and money waste can be greatly reduced! Color Coordinates can be converted from one space into another: sRGB, Display P3, CMYK, HSL, HSV/B, Lab, Lch-ab, Luv, Lch-uv, XYZ, xyY are available. The Munsell space is not available in the RPaintLite app. Digital images usually don't fit into the color gamut of real paint lines. RPaintLite can find an approximated (de)saturation value of an image to fit it into the selected Paint Set color gamut with the current mixing parameters. The value is approximated, because it is based on heuristics, but it is usually a very good approximation. Please note that color of paint coming from various parts of a tube or from different batches of the manufacturer can vary, so mix small amounts first to be sure that computed recipes meet your needs!! Please check the video tutorials on youtube by searching for "Real Paint mixing tools" to see how to use these apps in your paintings.

Screenshots

Real Paint mixing tools LITE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Drawing Box Ltd at 94% against Real Paint mixing tools LITE's 25%. Drawing Box Ltd also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.2). Real Paint mixing tools LITE's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Drawing Box Ltd sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Real Paint mixing tools LITE asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Drawing Box Ltd holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Drawing Box Ltd's written reviews are positive against 25% of Real Paint mixing tools LITE's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drawing Box Ltd ships an update every 3 months, Real Paint mixing tools LITE every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Drawing Box Ltd versus Real Paint mixing tools LITE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrawing Box LtdReal Paint mixing tools LITE
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (10 ratings) — better3.2 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews94.2% of reviews — better25.0% of reviews
Number of ratings10 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS11.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size117 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEtienne Nguyen Tan HonAI4res srl

Customer experience

Drawing Box Ltd

All ratings9 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral22.2%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews347 reviews
Positive94.2%
Neutral4.3%
Negative1.4%

Real Paint mixing tools LITE

All ratings5 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Drawing Box Ltd

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes when importing images
  • Drawings sometimes rotate the wrong way
  • Occasional freezing when saving drawings

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add a bucket fill tool
  • Improve color blending capabilities
  • Increase save/export options in free version
  • Implement a smudge tool

Real Paint mixing tools LITE

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Drawing Box Ltd

One-time2
  • Pencil Sketching Lessons$0.99
  • Buy Drawing Box Full version$2.99
None

Real Paint mixing tools LITE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drawing Box Ltd free?
Drawing Box Ltd is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Real Paint mixing tools LITE free?
Real Paint mixing tools LITE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Drawing Box Ltd or Real Paint mixing tools LITE?
Drawing Box Ltd is rated higher. Drawing Box Ltd averages 4.6 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Real Paint mixing tools LITE averages 3.2 from 5 ratings.
Do Drawing Box Ltd or Real Paint mixing tools LITE have ads?
Neither Drawing Box Ltd nor Real Paint mixing tools LITE shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drawing Box Ltd or Real Paint mixing tools LITE?
Drawing Box Ltd ships an update every 3 months, and Real Paint mixing tools LITE every 5 months. Most recently, Drawing Box Ltd was updated on October 23, 2026 and Real Paint mixing tools LITE on October 21, 2026.

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