Comparison

Pen15! vs Mana Palette

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

Head to head
About

Pen15!

Unleash your creativity with a digital sketchbook designed for fun. Explore a variety of unique pens to bring your artistic visions to life.

Highlights
  • Digital sketchbook
  • Variety of fun pens
  • Creative sketching tool
  • Intuitive interface
Features
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Do you like sketching? Do you like different types of fun pens? Do you like collaging? Well then this app is for you.

About

Mana Palette

Features
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Mana Palette is a color-study tool for miniature painters, illustrators, and designers — a quiet studio built around one artwork at a time. DISCOVER — Shuffle random Magic: The Gathering artworks with mana color filters, set search, artist lock, and theme search. Artist, card and source are always credited; bookmark references into your gallery. ANALYZE — A precision eyedropper with pixel loupe and adjustable sample size (1×1 to 25×25 px, correctly averaged), value study (luminance) and shape study (simplified color fields — the picker samples exactly what you see). You can also load your own image for analysis; it stays on your device. PALETTES — Collect up to 12 colors with notes and tags (per palette and per color), matched against 9 miniature paint ranges (Citadel, Vallejo, Army Painter, AK Gen3, P3, Golden SoFlat, Scale75, Reaper, Pro Acryl) via CIEDE2000 — with an adjustable dE threshold so you only see paints that really match. Shopping list included. EXPORT — Auto palette and working palettes as hex list, PNG swatch card (with color data and best paint per swatch), GPL (GIMP/Krita), CSV, and JSON — via the iOS share sheet. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Everything stays local on your device. Works in portrait and landscape. Mana Palette is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. (c) Wizards of the Coast LLC. Card data and imagery via Scryfall.

Screenshots

Pen15!4 screens
Mana Palette4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Mana Palette at daily against Pen15!'s fortnightly. Mana Palette also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.4). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pen15! ships an update fortnightly, Mana Palette daily. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pen15! versus Mana Palette: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPen15!Mana Palette
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB5 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperAlexander CollinsMarkus Wenzel

In-app purchases

None

Pen15!

No in-app purchases

None

Mana Palette

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pen15! free?
Pen15! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mana Palette free?
Mana Palette is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pen15! or Mana Palette have ads?
Neither Pen15! nor Mana Palette shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pen15! or Mana Palette?
Pen15! ships an update fortnightly, and Mana Palette daily. Most recently, Pen15! was updated on October 16, 2026 and Mana Palette on October 25, 2026.

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