Comparison

HEAVYPAINT vs VirtuCamera 2

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Unique digital brushes
  • Color Jitter for texture
  • Fast color blocking tools
  • Line Blend for gradients
  • Liquify tool
  • Minimalist interface
  • Gallery for creations
Features
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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/

About

VirtuCamera 2

This tool captures device motion and streams it in real-time to your favorite 3D software. Animate cameras with smooth motion and control playback directly from your device. Ideal for previs, layout, and animation tasks.

Highlights
  • Real-time viewport streaming
  • Device motion capture
  • Remote scene control
  • Up to 60 FPS capture
  • Camera animation smoothing
  • Encrypted Wi-Fi connection
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An essential tool for Previs and Layout Artists, Animators and any 3D Artist that needs to animate a camera. Move your device in any direction, VirtuCamera will capture the motion and instantly send it over Wi-Fi to the camera in your favorite DCC. - Live Viewport Streaming See your scene through the App in real time. VirtuCamera streams the viewport over Wi-Fi so you don’t miss any detail. - Control the scene from the App Control the playback, choose from your scene cameras, animate the focal length or scale camera movements to travel long distances. - Up to 60 FPS Device motion and viewport streaming are captured and sent at up to 60 frames per second. You can configure this parameter at your needs. - Camera Smoothing Remove unwanted hand noise and create smooth camera animations. - Encrypted Connection Ensures modern, industry-standard encryption for maximum protection. Keeps your video streams fully private between the server (DCC plugin), and app. Specially created for Movies, Series, Games and any other IP protected project. Because your privacy is important to us. - New Pro features! - on Screen joysticks, support for bluetooth gamepads, slider presets, custom scripts, custom sliders, dolly zoom mode, extra camera controls and rule of thirds grid overlay. This app requires an external 3D content creation software to work, please take a look at the following minimum system requirements: - A computer powerful enough to play your 3D scenes. - A recent version of Windows®, MacOS® or Linux® operating system. - A stable network connection. - The latest version of the plug-in provided in our webpage. - One of the following DCC softwares: Blender®: 4.5 LTS, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 LTS Autodesk® Maya®: 2026, 2027 SideFX® Houdini®: 20.5(QT6), 21.0, 22.0 Maxon® Cinema4D®: 2026 Autodesk® 3dsMax®: 2026, 2027 Foundry® Nuke®: 16, 17 Here you can find the installation guide for the plugin: https://virtucamera.com/how-tos/ Terms And Conditions: https://virtucamera.com/terms-and-conditions

Screenshots

HEAVYPAINT4 screens
VirtuCamera 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: HEAVYPAINT at Free against VirtuCamera 2's $19.99. HEAVYPAINT also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.3) and ratings volume (66 vs 13). VirtuCamera 2's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks) and chart position (#11 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ads, in-app purchases 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

HEAVYPAINT is free to download; VirtuCamera 2 costs $19.99 up front. HEAVYPAINT sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and VirtuCamera 2 sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HEAVYPAINT holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HEAVYPAINT has 66 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of HEAVYPAINT's written reviews are positive against 56% of VirtuCamera 2's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HEAVYPAINT ships an update every 6 weeks, VirtuCamera 2 every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 13, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
HEAVYPAINT versus VirtuCamera 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHEAVYPAINTVirtuCamera 2
PriceFree — better$19.99
Rating4.0 (66 ratings) — better3.3 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews58.4% of reviews — better56.3% of reviews
Number of ratings66 — better13
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#11 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHEAVYPOLY, Inc.The Weird Byte SL

Customer experience

HEAVYPAINT

All ratings66 ratings
Positive68.2%
Neutral13.6%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews77 reviews
Positive58.4%
Neutral15.6%
Negative26.0%

VirtuCamera 2

All ratings13 ratings
Positive53.8%
Neutral7.7%
Negative38.5%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive56.3%
Neutral12.5%
Negative31.3%

Bugs and 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

VirtuCamera 2

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

HEAVYPAINT

Subscriptions2
  • Gallery Sync Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Gallery Sync Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Unlock Full Version$9.99
3 purchases

VirtuCamera 2

Subscriptions3
  • Pro Indie Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Pro Indie Yearly$99.001 Year
  • Pro Business Yearly$990.001 Year

Questions

Is HEAVYPAINT free?
HEAVYPAINT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is VirtuCamera 2 free?
VirtuCamera 2 costs $19.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HEAVYPAINT or VirtuCamera 2?
HEAVYPAINT is rated higher. HEAVYPAINT averages 4.0 out of 5 from 66 ratings, while VirtuCamera 2 averages 3.3 from 13 ratings.
Do HEAVYPAINT or VirtuCamera 2 have ads?
Neither HEAVYPAINT nor VirtuCamera 2 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HEAVYPAINT or VirtuCamera 2?
HEAVYPAINT ships an update every 6 weeks, and VirtuCamera 2 every 3 days. Most recently, HEAVYPAINT was updated on October 13, 2026 and VirtuCamera 2 on October 13, 2026.

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