makeART vs HEAVYPAINT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
makeART
Transform your device into a digital canvas with an interactive art studio. Create stunning artwork using intuitive touch controls, a vast library of assets, and AI-powered styles. Save your creations to a personal gallery and share them on social media.
- Intuitive touch creation
- Customization suite
- Freestyle mode with millions of assets
- Infinite art styles
- Personal gallery for saving
- Social media ready content
- Professional quality artwork
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Tap the canvas and art appears. makeART is a collage art studio for iPhone and iPad. Mix art pieces, photos, gifs and stickers into art that looks like you. Start with curated art styles or make your own, then layer it, animate it, draw on it and share it. TAP TO MAKE ART • Pick an art style, then tap or swipe: pieces land where your finger goes • Shuffle for a fresh mix, or change every piece at once • Size and opacity sliders, plus undo and redo • Move, scale and rotate any piece CURATED + DESIGNED ART STYLES TO MIX • glass, flowers+time, new classics, rain, neomesh, freestyle and more • Several variants inside each style • Search art styles by name and jump back into recent canvases MAKE YOUR OWN ART STYLE • Mix art pieces, photos and gifs from every style into a set that is all yours • Name it, save it, and make art with it like any other style • Build mood boards, vision boards and scrapbook pages from your own pieces COLLAGE PHOTOS, GIFS + STICKERS • Add photos from your library • Search gifs and stickers from GIPHY and photos from Unsplash • Cut the subject out of a photo and use it like a sticker • Make images with Image Playground on supported devices LAYERS, TEXT + BACKGROUNDS • Background, pieces, overlay and text layers • Drag pieces to reorder them • Backgrounds in solid colors, gradient meshes (iOS 18 and later) or your own photo • Tap any piece to swap it, add filters, duplicate it or change its order, with a live preview BRING YOUR ART TO LIFE • Animations: appear, bounce, change, cloud, grow, rotate, shift, thunder and wave • Animation is part of the makeART+ membership • Record a time-lapse video of your art coming together DRAW ON YOUR ART • Sketch right on top of your pieces with your finger • Use Apple Pencil on iPad SAVE, KEEP EDITING + SHARE • Save to your gallery and reopen any artwork to keep editing • Download to Photos • Share in sizes for Instagram posts and Stories, TikTok, Pinterest, Facebook and X • Choose fill or fit and a background color before you share makeART+ MEMBERSHIP Choose monthly or annual. Membership includes: • Every art style and variant • Unlimited art styles of your own • Animation • Every saved version of your art • Unlimited gallery • All filters, tools and canvases • Sharing with no watermark We read every note: thoughts@makeartapp.com Designed by humans who love art and tech. Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
HEAVYPAINT
This app offers a raw digital painting experience with unique tools for creating textured art and quick studies. It's designed for artists who embrace digital chaos and seek a streamlined, mobile art studio.
- Unique digital brushes
- Color Jitter for texture
- Fast color blocking tools
- Line Blend for gradients
- Liquify tool
- Minimalist interface
- Gallery for creations
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Raw digital painting with unique brushes & color chaos. The painter's painting app that celebrates digital chaos. HEAVYPAINT is unapologetically digital and a bit unhinged. It’s a celebration of digital impressionism. Whether you're sketching on the train, painting outdoors, or creating quick color studies, this is your pocket art studio. Unique Digital Tools Color Jitter: Unleash beautiful digital chaos and texture Fan Fill and Lasso Fill for fast color blockins, textured foliage, notan, organic shapes. Rake tool for softening up edges in a graphic way Line Blend for instant gradients Liquify to adjust proportions and shapes Built for Speed & Mobility Perfect pochade box replacement for pleinair painting. Great for quick paintings on public transit, many will finger paint on their phones. Streamlined interface.Focus on pure color and shape without digital clutter. Streamlined Experience Minimalist interface puts painting first Customizable tools that adapt to your style Strong shape design tools for bold, crisp artwork Gallery to review and organize your creations + Plein air painters who want to ditch heavy supplies + Quick color studies and concept sketches + Figure painting and gesture drawing + Artists wanting to rediscover digital painting joy + Anyone seeking a uniquely digital aesthetic HEAVYPAINT balances professional capabilities with unhinged creativity. Embrace procedural randomness / crunchiness / glitchiness that digital enables. Touch grass. Ideal for pleinair painting and quick studies This app is subject to Apple's standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: makeART at 4.7 against HEAVYPAINT's 4.0. makeART also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 58%). HEAVYPAINT's advantage is ratings volume (66 vs 11) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17). On price, update cadence, 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. makeART sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and HEAVYPAINT sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
makeART holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HEAVYPAINT has 66 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of makeART's written reviews are positive against 58% of HEAVYPAINT's.
makeART ships an update every 3 weeks, HEAVYPAINT every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | makeART | HEAVYPAINT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (11 ratings) — better | 4.0 (66 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 58.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 66 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 424 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Make Art Inc. | HEAVYPOLY, Inc. |
Customer experience
makeART
HEAVYPAINT
Bugs and requests
makeART
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
HEAVYPAINT
Reported bugs
3 issues- Gallery crashes
- Artwork files not saving properly
- Eyedropper tool not working as expected
Requested features
3 requests- Improved layer management
- More customization options
- Better color controls and eyedropper tool
In-app purchases
makeART
- makeART+ Monthly Membership$7.991 Month
- makeART+ Annual Membership$39.991 Year
HEAVYPAINT
- Gallery Sync Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Gallery Sync Yearly$19.991 Year
- Unlock Full Version$9.99









