A vs Paint Shapes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
A
Create unique geometric shapes through iterative affine transformations. Apply translations, rotations, and scaling to various objects with gradient coloring to generate visually interesting results.
- Affine transformation for shape creation
- Translation, rotation, and scaling
- Gradient coloring
- Supports circles, rectangles, stars, polygons, and lines
- Iterative shape generation
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This app allows you to create interesting shapes using affine transformation. Affine transformation can do translation, rotation and scaling on object's coordinate. We do iterations, and in each iteration we apply the affine transformation on the object (circle, rectangle, star, polygon or line), coloured in gradient. At the end, you may like the result. Have fun.
Paint Shapes
Unleash your creativity by painting with geometric shapes. Learn to identify shapes in the world around you and translate them into art. Challenge friends and develop your artistic thinking.
- Paint with geometric shapes
- Identify shapes in the environment
- Develop artistic thinking
- Challenge friends
- Shape deletion tool
- Customizable color selection
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Improve your creativity and artistic skills. Have fun painting only with geometric shapes. Everything around us is a geometric figure, just find their shapes and draw them here. You will be surprise how your brains start thinking different to trying to paint what is in your mind. Surprise your friends and challenge them. How to use the app: 1- How to paint: Select from the right tool bar one of the shapes (filled or just stroke). Then put your finger in the screen and move the finger without lifting it. 2 - How to delete a shape: You can delete only shape by shape pressing the trash can at the top right corner. 3 - How to change colors: Touch the colorful little square at the top toolbar, select the color at the vertical bar and then how dark or light you want that color in the big square. Once you have the color you need just touch outside the dialog and the color will be selected and added to the Recent colors bar. Visit us on Facebook at: FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/paintshapes/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/paintshapes/ #paint #painting #shapes #drawing #creativity #geometry #kids #art #design
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Paint Shapes at every 3 days against A's every 70 months. Paint Shapes also leads on ratings volume (13 vs 2). A's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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.
A holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Paint Shapes has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
A ships an update every 70 months, Paint Shapes every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | A | Paint Shapes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 70 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Johannes Dwiartanto | Benny Jon |
Customer experience
A
Paint Shapes
In-app purchases
A
No in-app purchases
Paint Shapes
No in-app purchases
