AtelierKit vs PainterLab

AtelierKit is the quiet, focused toolkit that lives on your phone and serves your art practice — no account, no internet, no distractions. Whether you're painting from a reference photo, sketching a portrait, or mixing colours at your easel, AtelierKit gives you the tools professional artists actually reach for. COLOUR ANALYSIS Sample any colour from a photo or your camera feed. Get precise values to help you mix accurate paints. Stop guessing — start seeing. GRID OVERLAY Overlay a customisable grid over any reference image to transfer proportions with confidence. The grid method used by masters, now always in your pocket. VALUE STUDY Strip away colour and see only light and shadow. Train your eye to read tonal relationships — the foundation of every great painting. CLOUD SYNC Optionally sync your projects across devices with iCloud. Your projects are always backed up and available wherever you work. BUILT FOR ARTISTS, NOT APPS • Works fully offline — no Wi-Fi needed to use any tool • No account required to get started • Optional cloud sync keeps your data private and encrypted • Available in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish • Clean, distraction-free interface AtelierKit is made for painters, sketchers, illustrators, and anyone who works with physical media and wants a smarter, faster way to analyse their references. Your art. Your device. Your studio.

PainterLab turns any photo into a practical painting study you can observe, simplify, and mix from. It is not a coloring game, and it does not paint for you. PainterLab helps painters and art students understand color shapes, value structure, and temperature relationships, then translate selected screen colors into real-paint mixing ideas. SIMPLIFY COMPLEX SCENES Organize a busy photo into clear, paintable color shapes. Explore natural color blocks, limited palettes, and region-based forms, then adjust detail and smoothing for your study. SEE THE VALUE STRUCTURE Compress an image into 2–10 value levels to study large light-and-dark relationships, grayscale organization, and Notan. Use the adjustable histogram to control each value boundary. UNDERSTAND COLOR TEMPERATURE Compare cool, neutral, and warm relationships across the image. Adjust balance and smoothing to reveal the overall temperature structure more clearly. TURN SCREEN COLORS INTO REAL PAINT Select a color from the original photo or a simplified color shape. PainterLab uses your chosen paint palette to suggest practical paint combinations and mixing proportions. You can also photograph your mixed paint and compare it with the target color. BUILD YOUR OWN PAINT PALETTES Choose the physical paints you already own and organize them into custom palettes. Mixing recipes are calculated using the palette selected for each study. SAVE EVERY STUDY Your source photo, observation modes, adjustments, and sampled colors are saved in the Study Library, so you can return and continue practicing at any time. KEY FEATURES • Photo-to-color-shape simplification • Value studies and Notan analysis • Warm and cool color-temperature analysis • Color sampling and real-paint mixing recipes • Custom physical-paint palettes • Study Library with automatic saving • On-device photo processing PainterLab includes free basic features. PainterLab Pro unlocks unlimited studies, additional simplification styles, fine detail controls, and other advanced features. Subscription options and local pricing are shown by the App Store before purchase and can be managed or canceled through your App Store account. Privacy Policy: https://wavecave-studio.uk/painterlab/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://wavecave-studio.uk/painterlab/terms-of-service