HuePaint vs Paintstorm Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HuePaint
Create digital art with realistic brushes and dynamic stroke sizes based on fingertip pressure. Offers a user-friendly interface with customizable tools and supports advanced features like layers and photo tracing.
- Live-calculated brushes and strokes
- Dynamic stroke size based on fingertip pressure
- Adjustable parameters while painting
- Left-handed toolbar option
- Multiple layers
- Photo tracing mode (Pro feature)
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Paint and create beautiful works of art using this app’s expressive painting tools and workflow-friendly user interface. • COLORFUL PAINTING TOOLS • HuePaint features live-calculated brushes and strokes that interact in real time with a canvas texture that is uniquely generated for each picture. • FINGERTIP = STROKE SIZE • When you paint, the app measures how much of your finger is touching the screen and changes the stroke size accordingly. Apply just the corner of your fingertip for a thin line, or the whole fingerprint area for a broad stroke. A 2nd tool assigned to your finger will still use this feature, so don’t ignore it just because you have an Apple Pencil! • LEFT-HANDED? • Just swipe the toolbar over to the other side! • PARAMETERS CAN BE CHANGED LIVE • Use any buttons or controls to change/adjust color, size, force, simultaneously while painting. • UNIVERSAL PURCHASE • If you choose to buy the Pro upgrade, this one-time in-app purchase will unlock all Pro features in the app on all available platforms (iPad-iPhone-Mac)! • METAL • The engine is based on Metal, with 128-bit color and floating-point arithmetic. • SWIFT • The app was developed entirely using Swift (earlier versions used C++). • APPLE PENCIL SUPPORT • FULL SCREEN PAINTING • • DARK MODE • LANDSCAPE • PORTRAIT • WIDE COLOR • • MULTIPLE LAYERS • PHOTO TRACING MODE (Pro feature) •
Paintstorm Studio
This app offers a professional digital painting experience on iOS devices, leveraging Apple Pencil for advanced control. It provides a vast array of customizable brushes, stroke correction, and intuitive tools for artists of all levels to create masterpieces on the go.
- Advanced brush customization
- Stroke post-correction
- Perspective-aware parameters
- Dynamic and custom interface
- Mask brush functionality
- Photoshop PSD and ABR support
- Apple Pencil integration
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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 - Standart tools pack (Lasso, Magic wand, Crop, Fill, Gradient and etc) - Control of the random amounts - Photoshop PSD and ABR supported - Apple Pencil support (Pressure, Tilt, Direction)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: HuePaint at Free against Paintstorm Studio's $12.99. HuePaint also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). Paintstorm Studio's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On ratings volume, ads 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
HuePaint is free to download; Paintstorm Studio costs $12.99 up front. HuePaint sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Paintstorm Studio asks for nothing beyond the download.
HuePaint holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 164 and 368 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of HuePaint's written reviews are positive against 60% of Paintstorm Studio's.
HuePaint ships an update every 2 months, Paintstorm Studio every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 16, 2026.
| Parameter | HuePaint | Paintstorm Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $12.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (164 ratings) — better | 4.4 (368 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 69.4% of reviews — better | 59.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 164 | 368 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Norbyte | Sergei Komarov |
Customer experience
HuePaint
Paintstorm Studio
Bugs and requests
HuePaint
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Paintstorm Studio
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes on startup or when using certain tools
- Brush lag and performance issues with large canvases
- Unreliable autosave and file management
- Unresponsive or glitchy UI elements
- Incompatibility with older iPad models
Requested features
5 requests- Improved brush customization and management
- Seamless canvas rotation and zooming
- Expanded layer and selection tools
- Better text and typography support
- Integrated cloud/online sync and sharing
In-app purchases
HuePaint
- Tip Jar: Smallest Tip$1.00
- Tip Jar: Small Tip$2.00
- Tip Jar: Medium Tip$5.00
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- Pro Upgrade$6.00
- Tip Jar: Big Tip$10.00
- Tip Jar: Biggest Tip$25.00
Paintstorm Studio
No in-app purchases
Questions
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