MiniSight vs Paco
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
MiniSight
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MiniSight - The miniature painter's companion. Understand your painting. Track your progress. Demystify the process. Not an Instagram showcase. A tool designed to help you improve. ⢠VISUAL ANALYSIS Snap a photo of your miniature and instantly get value analysis (B&W), heatmaps, and color extraction. Understand what works and what to focus on next. ⢠PROJECT TIMELINE Follow the evolution of your painting projects, not just the final result. Document each step and see how far you've come. ⢠RECIPE CARDS Save your color mixes, recipes, and palettes. Build and browse a library of painting schemes, yours and the community's. ⢠LEARN Educational content to help you master miniature painting techniques, from beginner to advanced. Track your progress through concepts and skills. ⢠COMMUNITY Share your projects and color schemes. See how other painters work. Like, follow, and get inspired. ⢠FEATURES: ⢠Visual analysis: B&W value check, heatmaps, color extraction ⢠Project timeline with photo tracking ⢠Color scheme builder and browser ⢠Learning resources with progress tracking ⢠Community sharing and discovery ⢠Works offline for analysis ⢠Available in English, French, and Spanish Whatever you paint, MiniSight helps you see your work with fresh eyes and improve with every session. Free to use. All features accessible to everyone. Premium unlocks unlimited projects, and schemes. Terms of Use: https://www.minisight.eu/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.minisight.eu/privacy
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 ā 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 ā no signal, aeroplane mode, hobby shop basement ā 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. ā 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Paco at none against MiniSight's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. MiniSight sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Paco asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | MiniSight | Paco |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No ā better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LOIC NAS DE TOURRIS | Musashi |
In-app purchases
MiniSight
- MiniSight Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- MiniSight Pro Yearly$34.991 Year
Paco
No in-app purchases







