Paletio vs Art Reference

Paletio helps painters bring color inspiration to life with real acrylic paints. Capture a photo or pick an image, and instantly see how to mix its colors using real pigments — no more endless guessing or wasted paint. The app breaks down every shade into simple paint formulas, showing how much red, yellow, blue, white, or black you need to recreate it on canvas. It helps you understand color harmony, save your favorite mixes, and paint with confidence. Explore curated palettes for ideas, search by color name, and discover new ways to bring your artistic vision to life. Paletio makes the color-mixing process clear, enjoyable, and creative — turning trial and error into effortless expression. Paletio — from inspiration to color, from color to creation.

Art Reference: Value Study helps painters, illustrators, and traditional artists see any reference more clearly. Study values, simplify light and shadow, overlay grids, and paint side-by-side with your canvas. A value (or tone) is how light or dark a color is. Learning to see values is one of the fastest ways to improve your drawing and painting. But it's hard to read shadows and highlights through all the color. This app makes it effortless. SEE YOUR REFERENCE IN VALUES Instantly convert any photo to grayscale, or a 7-value posterized scale. Flick between levels of detail, start in simple black and white, then build up value by value to train your eye. CROP & FRAME TO YOUR CANVAS Match your reference's composition and aspect ratio to your canvas before your first stroke. GRIDLINES Overlay grids to lay in your under-sketch with correct proportions. CURATED COLLECTIONS Don't have a reference ready? Start with dozens of hand-picked photos across Animals, Architecture, Botanical, Figure, Landscape, Portrait, Still Life, Skulls, and Master Studies from the great painters. NO AI ART Every starter reference is a real photograph or artwork, attributed to the original artist with a link to their portfolio. No AI-generated images. And your own artwork stays private in your personal iCloud, never shared online, never used to train AI models. WORKS OFFLINE No connection needed. Perfect for the studio, plein air, or anywhere you paint. CLEAN, FOCUSED, NO ADS Just the reference tools you need.