Comparison

Pigmento ModelPaint vs Paco

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

Head to head
About

Pigmento ModelPaint

Features
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Pigmento โ€“ Model Paint Mixer & Color Assistant Pigmento is your essential tool for scale modelers and miniature painters. Easily manage your paint inventory, experiment with color mixes, compare brands, and create accurate custom colors using advanced color science. Pigmento is free to use with optional Pro features available via subscription. Free version: In the free version, you can mix and convert model paint colors from your own collection and save basic mixing results. Pro version: In the Pro version, you unlock advanced mixing models, higher accuracy with Delta E scoring, scale correction, and unlimited mixes. Pigmento Pro is available as a subscription. A free 14-day trial is included. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account. Subscription automatically renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Privacy Policy https://pigmento.onrender.com/privacy-policy/Privacy Policy Terms of Use / EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Paco

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Paco is a paint conversion table and list keeper for miniature painters. Found a recipe that calls for a paint you do not own? Paco shows you the closest equivalents across Citadel, Vallejo and The Army Painter, ranked by how close the match actually is, not by a guess, but by a measured colour distance between the two paints. BUILD YOUR LISTS Keep a list per army, per project, or per shelf. Give each one a name, an emblem and a banner colour, and add paints to it as you go. Lists are grouped by paint category so a long one stays readable. SEARCH THE CATALOGUE Fuzzy search across every paint in the catalogue by name or brand. Filter to a single brand when you already know what you are shopping for. Every result shows its swatch, its hex value, and the equivalents in the other two ranges with a delta score for each โ€” so you can tell a near-perfect substitute from a rough one at a glance. WORKS WITH THE RADIO OFF Paco ships the whole catalogue inside the app. There is no loading screen, no sign-in and no "you appear to be offline". It quietly checks for an updated catalogue when you open it, and if that check fails โ€” no signal, aeroplane mode, hobby shop basement โ€” nothing about the app changes. NO ACCOUNTS, NO ADS, NO TRACKING There is no sign-up, because there is nothing to sign up to. Paco has no analytics, no advertising and no crash reporting. Your lists live on your device and are never uploaded. The app talks to exactly one host, for the public paint colour tables it is built on, and it sends nothing about you with it. Paco is free, and every part of it is. No feature is locked, limited or nagged about. โ€” The Paint Codex design is by Lukas Stordeur (github.com/LukasStordeur). Paint data is derived from the open colour database at github.com/Arcturus5404/miniature-paints (MIT), published by the Miniature Painter Pro team. Paco is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Games Workshop Limited, Acrylicos Vallejo S.L., or The Army Painter ApS. Citadel, Vallejo and The Army Painter are trademarks of their respective owners, used here only to identify the paint ranges the app converts between.

Screenshots

Pigmento ModelPaint4 screens
Paco4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Paco at none against Pigmento ModelPaint's 2. Paco also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Pigmento ModelPaint sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Paco asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Pigmento ModelPaint versus Paco: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPigmento ModelPaintPaco
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysโ€”
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size41 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTomas CmorjakMusashi

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Pigmento ModelPaint

Subscriptions2
  • Pro14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly14 Days trial$29.991 Year
None

Paco

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pigmento ModelPaint free?
Pigmento ModelPaint is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Paco free?
Paco is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pigmento ModelPaint or Paco have ads?
Pigmento ModelPaint shows ads; Paco does not.

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