Comparison

HEAVYPAINT vs Imprimatone

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

Imprimatone

Generate color palettes using various methods like random selection, mood-based choices, color theory, or from images. Save and revisit your favorite combinations for artistic inspiration.

Highlights
  • Generate palettes randomly
  • Create palettes based on mood
  • Utilize color theory for palettes
  • Extract colors from images
  • Customize palette size
  • Lock colors and regenerate
  • Copy hex codes instantly
  • Save favorite palettes
Features
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Imprimatone is a color palette generator built for people who love color. Generate a palette in seconds, save the ones that speak to you, and come back to them whenever you need inspiration. Whether you're a painter starting a new study, a designer exploring combinations, or just someone with an eye for color — Imprimatone keeps it simple and gets out of your way. Generate your way Choose from four ways to build a palette: Random — pure chance. Sometimes the best palettes are the ones you'd never think to choose. Mood — pick a feeling: Warm, Cool, Earthy, Vibrant, Muted, or Pastel. Imprimatone does the rest. Color Theory — generate palettes grounded in Complementary, Monochrome, Triadic, or Split-Complementary relationships. Image — pull colors directly from any photo in your library or take one with your camera. The colors that drew you to an image, extracted automatically. Work the way you think Palettes can be anywhere from 1 to 12 colors. Add or remove colors on the fly. Lock in the ones you want to keep and regenerate around them — great for when you've found a perfect base and want to explore what works alongside it. Tap any color to copy its hex code instantly. Open the full-screen preview to sit with a palette before deciding. Save what you love Heart a palette to save it. Your saved palettes live in one place, ready to revisit whenever you need them.

Screenshots

HEAVYPAINT4 screens
Imprimatone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Imprimatone at 5.0 against HEAVYPAINT's 4.0. Imprimatone also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 58%) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). HEAVYPAINT's advantage is ratings volume (66 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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. HEAVYPAINT sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Imprimatone asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Imprimatone holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HEAVYPAINT has 66 ratings behind it against 1, 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 100% of Imprimatone's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HEAVYPAINT ships an update every 5 weeks, Imprimatone weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
HEAVYPAINT versus Imprimatone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHEAVYPAINTImprimatone
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (66 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings66 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHEAVYPOLY, Inc.Alexander Sheppard

Customer experience

HEAVYPAINT

All ratings66 ratings
Positive68.2%
Neutral13.6%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews78 reviews
Positive57.7%
Neutral15.4%
Negative26.9%

Imprimatone

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

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

Imprimatone

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
None

Imprimatone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HEAVYPAINT free?
HEAVYPAINT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Imprimatone free?
Imprimatone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, HEAVYPAINT or Imprimatone?
Imprimatone is rated higher. HEAVYPAINT averages 4.0 out of 5 from 66 ratings, while Imprimatone averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do HEAVYPAINT or Imprimatone have ads?
Neither HEAVYPAINT nor Imprimatone shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HEAVYPAINT or Imprimatone?
HEAVYPAINT ships an update every 5 weeks, and Imprimatone weekly. Most recently, HEAVYPAINT was updated on October 25, 2026 and Imprimatone on October 7, 2026.

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