Comparison

Smarty Paints vs RayMol

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

Head to head
About

Smarty Paints

This app helps watercolor artists manage their paint collections, find substitute colors, and match tutorial supplies. It simplifies tracking what you own, identifying dupes, and ensuring your paints align with class or tutorial requirements.

Highlights
  • Track watercolor paint collections
  • Find close-enough paint dupes
  • Match tutorial supplies to your stash
  • Compare paint properties across brands
  • Create digital palette layouts
  • Searchable paint database
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Watercolor paints, simplified: track what you own, find close-enough dupes, match your stash to any class supplies list, and finally remember which blue is *that* blue. - Can't remember which watercolor paints you already have at home? - Forgot which red you put in that palette, or whether it stains, granulates, or glazes? - Following a video tutorial and not sure your paint substitutes will behave the same way? - Or if you could *mix* a substitute with paints you already own? Smarty Paints can help. It's your watercolor sidekick: a searchable, stash-organizing, tutorial-matching watercolor app for anyone who's ever said "Shoot, which one's Quin Gold again?" *Search, Discover & Learn* Browse a growing database of 3000+ paints. Filter paints by brand, pigment code, transparency, granulation, and more. Go on, nerd out. *Palette Layouts That Match Real Life* Drag and drop your digital palette to match your real one—so you're not guessing which little paint pot is which. No more cross-referencing paint tubes or binders of hand-labeled swatches. *Color Theory Fast Track* Every palette gets the wheel treatment. Your paints plotted, so the missing slot is obvious at a glance. Find the gap. Plan the next pick. Finally see what "warm blue" means. *Follow Any Video Tutorial With Your Paints* Paste a link or browse tutorials right in the app. Smarty Paints maps every tutorial's paint to your collection — own it, have a dupe, or need to grab it — with property-level comparison so you know *why* a substitute works (or won't). No more pausing to wonder if your Phthalo Blue is close enough to the instructor's Prussian Blue. *Find Dupes (or Mix One Yourself)* Smarty Paints compares transparency, granulation, staining, pigment, and lightfastness across brands, so you can see exactly where a match holds up and where it doesn't. When it doesn't, find a mix recipe using paints you already own. No new tubes required. *Collection & Wishlist Tracking* See what you've got. Spot what you're missing. Track usage, log your favorites, and never buy the same paint twice. (Unless you meant to.) Free features: - Full paint database search - Compare swatches and paint properties across brands - Find dupes and suggested mixes - Browse and match video tutorials to your collection - Create one drag-and-drop palette Want more? Go premium for unlimited palettes, cross-device sync, single-pigment filtering, and palette customization. Watercolor is easier for Smarty Paints. Just hear it from some of the smartest: “I love this app!! It’s so fun to keep track of everything!!” - Michelle S. “I used the app this morning to see if I had a color that matched the one used in the tutorial I was watching. Thankfully I had one that was almost perfect. So it’s a very handy app.” - Barbara H. “I've been looking for an app like this for years. Finally something I can really use to track the pigments I use for each painting. I love it!“ - Tim G.

About

RayMol

Visualize and explore molecular structures with high-quality, real-time graphics on Apple devices. Offers various rendering options, interactive tools, and animation capabilities. Runs entirely on-device with no data collection or ads.

Highlights
  • Molecular structure visualization
  • Real-time graphics rendering
  • Interactive exploration tools
  • Customizable themes
  • Animation and movie creation
  • PyMOL scripting interface
Features
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RayMol brings high-quality molecular visualization to macOS, iPad, and iPhone — built on the trusted PyMOL engine with a modern, native Metal renderer. Load a structure from a file or fetch any entry from the Protein Data Bank, then explore it with smooth, real-time graphics: • Representations — cartoon, sticks, spheres, surface, mesh, ribbon, dots, and labels. • Real-time quality — analytic ray-cast spheres and sticks, smooth tessellated cartoons, anti-aliasing, ambient occlusion, real-time shadows, and order-independent transparency. • Hardware ray tracing — on Apple-silicon GPUs, add ray-traced ambient occlusion and shadows live, and export crisp high-resolution images. • Themes — Classic, Paper, Sunset, or Dawn, or design your own with the live Theme Studio. • Sequence, selections, and measurements — a synced sequence viewer, named selections, and interactive distance/angle/dihedral tools. • Movies — build and export camera, scene, and state animations. • Scripting — the full PyMOL command interface for power users. RayMol runs entirely on your device. It collects no personal data and includes no tracking or ads.

Screenshots

Smarty Paints4 screens
RayMol4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RayMol at none against Smarty Paints's 2. RayMol also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%). Smarty Paints's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Smarty Paints sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per year. RayMol asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smarty Paints ships an update every 11 days, RayMol every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 19, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Smarty Paints versus RayMol: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmarty PaintsRayMol
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (38 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings38 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size111 MB213 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNeural Appworks LLCJavier Castellanos

Customer experience

Smarty Paints

All ratings38 ratings
Positive89.5%
Neutral2.6%
Negative7.9%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive78.9%
Neutral5.3%
Negative15.8%

RayMol

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Smarty Paints

Subscriptions1
  • Pro$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • Unlock Premium Features$39.99
None

RayMol

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smarty Paints free?
Smarty Paints is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is RayMol free?
RayMol is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Smarty Paints or RayMol have ads?
Neither Smarty Paints nor RayMol shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smarty Paints or RayMol?
Smarty Paints ships an update every 11 days, and RayMol every 2 weeks. Most recently, Smarty Paints was updated on October 19, 2026 and RayMol on October 19, 2026.

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