COPIC Collection vs Shortcut Remote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
COPIC Collection
Manage your Copic marker collection, discover complementary colors, and get color suggestions based on your images. Easily register markers and pens using barcodes, add personal notes, and tag colors used in your artwork.
- Barcode product registration
- Multiliner product registration
- Color picker for image suggestions
- Wish list for future purchases
- Personal color notes
- Artwork color tagging
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Copic Collection is a free smartphone app that lets you efficiently manage and search Copic markers that you currently own or are planning to purchase. It also lets you search for complimentary colors, and display color drawing samples. The app has been well received by many Copic users. How to use Copic Collection '- Easily register products using barcodes: You can now scan barcodes to register your Copic products. For sets, you can register all Copic products included in the set by scanning the barcode on the package. You can easily view your Copic products registered on the app from a color bar list, making it easier to find the next color you may be looking for. Register Multiliner products Copic products other than Copic markers (Multiliner Pen/Multiliner SP Pen/Copic Drawing Pen/Gasen-Fude Brush Pen) can also now be registered in your list. Multiliner Pen products can be registered by color and line width. View suggestions with the color picker feature Do you ever find yourself wondering what color should be used to color particular areas? Copic Collection can help you with that. The app allows you to load photos, illustrations and other images from "Camera" within the app, and will display a list of recommended Copic colors that best fits a specified area of an image. If you select a color from the list and tap the star icon, the chosen color will be displayed in the "WISH LIST." You can use this feature as a memo for your next purchase. - Your own MY COLOR MEMO On the detail screen for each color, you can tap the MEMO icon to make notes about the corresponding color. For example, you can leave notes for a particular color such as "Used to color my favorite manga character" and "Color was used by a popular artist in a video." - Tag the colors you used in a piece You can load images of artwork created with Copic markers from "Camera" within the app and add "Color Tags" that indicate the colors that were used. You can then save the image with the added color tags. You can save the image as reference for your own use, or share the image with Color Tags on social media, etc.
Shortcut Remote
Customize wireless shortcut remote button functions on your mobile device. Enhance your creative workflow with pre-set software configurations for popular tools.
- Customize remote button functions
- Wireless connectivity
- Mobile device integration
- Pre-set software configurations
- Enhance creative workflow
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XPPen tools help users customize wireless shortcut remote button functions on mobile devices (providing some commonly used software presets), better assisting your creativity.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: COPIC Collection at 3.3 against Shortcut Remote's 1.3. COPIC Collection also leads on review sentiment (41% vs 13%) and ratings volume (133 vs 12). Shortcut Remote's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
COPIC Collection holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: COPIC Collection has 133 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of COPIC Collection's written reviews are positive against 13% of Shortcut Remote's.
COPIC Collection ships an update every 4 months, Shortcut Remote every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | COPIC Collection | Shortcut Remote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (133 ratings) — better | 1.3 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.7% of reviews — better | 12.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 133 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 293 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Too corporation | 深圳汉王友基科技有限公司 |
Customer experience
COPIC Collection
Shortcut Remote
User reviews
COPIC Collection
From 133 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Helpful for tracking marker collection
- 🚀 Great for avoiding duplicate purchases
Room to improve
- 🤔 Confusing new interface
- 👎 Difficult to see owned colors
- 💤 Cluttered and not user-friendly
Shortcut Remote
From 12 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Good form factor and feel
- 💡 Potential for a great budget alternative
- 👍 App interface looks promising
- 👍 Device is inexpensive and easy to use
- 👍 Works after firmware update
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App connects but does nothing
- 🐛 Cannot save shortcuts
- 🐛 App doesn't work on iPad
- 🐛 Not saving changes
Bugs and requests
COPIC Collection
Reported bugs
2 issues- Randomly deletes user's marker data
- Barcode scanner not working
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to track ink refills
- Implement color palette organization
- Add search and filter functions
- Improve color matching from photos
- Provide better visual representation of owned colors
Shortcut Remote
Reported bugs
15 issues- Shortcut remote not connecting
- App crashes
- App connects but does nothing
- Cannot save shortcuts
- App doesn't work on iPad
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- Not saving changes
- Keys don't change
- App not working
- Buttons not mapping
- App fails to modify keys
- App does not open
- Connection issues
- Software keyboard US layout issue
- UI only supports portrait mode
- Shortcut remote not saving assigned key binding
Requested features
7 requests- Fix shortcut remote connection issue
- Allow remote connection only to iPad
- Provide detailed connection and usage guides for iPad
- Add support for Ibispaint
- Add K11 switching function
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- Support JIS keyboard layout
- Support landscape UI
In-app purchases
COPIC Collection
No in-app purchases
Shortcut Remote
No in-app purchases
Questions
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