Pochade vs Swatchy, Project Paint Planner

**Pochade is free to try with included sample images. Unlock importing your own photos with a single one-time purchase of $9.99. No subscription, no ads, yours forever.** Pochade is a focused reference prep app for painters. Import a photo, study its values, compose your framing, and plan your grid — all before brush hits canvas. No AI generation. No social features. No clutter. Just the reference tools painters actually need, designed for iPad. STUDY VALUES WITH CLARITY The hardest part of painting from a photo is seeing the value structure. Pochade simplifies your reference into 2–9 tonal steps so you can map out your lights and darks before you start mixing paint. A live luminance histogram shows your overall tonal distribution. Select any value bucket to isolate it with a mask overlay, making it easy to see exactly where each tone falls in your composition. COMPOSE YOUR FRAMING Crop non-destructively with preset aspect ratios (1:1, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4) or use the original framing. Your source image is never altered — adjust your composition as many times as you need. OVERLAY A PLANNING GRID Add a customizable grid overlay to plan your drawing transfer. Choose your row and column count (2–12 each), pick a color that reads well against your image, and adjust line thickness. The grid respects your crop, so what you see is what you'll paint. TOGGLE GRAYSCALE Switch to grayscale to strip away color and focus purely on value relationships — the foundation of every strong painting. BUILT FOR HOW PAINTERS WORK Your sessions save automatically as you adjust tools. Come back tomorrow or next week and pick up right where you left off. Undo and redo are built in, up to 50 steps deep. A session library keeps your references organized with thumbnail previews and tool state badges so you can see at a glance what you've done with each image. Zen mode hides all controls so you can evaluate your reference without distraction. Pan, zoom, and rotate to inspect details. BUILT NATIVELY FOR iPAD AND iPHONE Pochade is built natively for iPad and iPhone. Everything runs on-device. Your photos and sessions stay on your iPad, nothing is uploaded anywhere. Privacy Policy: [link] Terms of Use: [link]

Turn any photo into a paintable wall mural—with the exact paints to buy, anywhere in the world. Swatchy is the muralist’s and DIY painter’s pocket studio. Import a photo and Swatchy pulls its colors and matches them to real paint you can buy—complete with names, codes, match percentages, and how much to purchase. Then let AI redraw your photo as clean line art, create a paint-by-number outline showing exactly where every color goes, and take the files to the wall. FIND YOUR COLORS IN REAL PAINT • Tens of thousands of colors from dozens of paint libraries worldwide, matched using perceptual color science • Leading decorative brands across the US, UK, Australia, Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia, and beyond • A searchable brand picker that puts brands available in your region first • Long-press any swatch to match it to another brand—or switch the entire project at once • New brands and colors are added regularly FOUR KINDS OF PAINT • Decorative wall paint for rollers and brushes • Professional spray-paint lines for muralists • Artist acrylics • Sign enamels COLOR MATCHING • Brand & Paint Type Matching: match colors across brands and paint types—including spray paint, decorative wall paint, artist acrylics, and sign enamel • Live Color Matching: capture an existing color using your camera, or select a photo from your library, and match it to real paint • Compare names, codes, swatches, and match percentages to find the best available option SMART OUTLINE—YOUR PHOTO AS LINE ART • AI redraws your photo as clean, hand-drawn-style line art, as if an illustrator traced it for your wall • Choose Simple or Detailed—ready to print, project, or transfer • Create a true paint-by-number outline that divides the image into paintable sections and shows exactly where every palette color goes • Each section is numbered to match its color in your palette • Switch paint brands and the numbers update with your palette • Share outlines directly from the app KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO BUY • Enter your wall size in feet or meters • Calculate per-color amounts in gallons or liters, including coats, primer, and clear coat • Surface-aware coverage accounts for brick, stucco, cinderblock, and other materials that require more paint • Mix Colors creates on-site ratio recipes using paints already in your project—potentially eliminating another can from your cart TAKE IT TO THE WALL • Use a tappable shopping checklist in the paint aisle • Export mural sheets, palette legends, outlines, and checklists to share, print, or AirDrop • Stack related murals into one project and shop for them together • Keep project colors, calculations, files, and planning details organized in one place ASK SWATCHY • Your AI painting expert for surfaces, preparation, technique, materials, and product availability • Ask questions with the context of your project and Swatchy’s growing paint directory TRY EVERYTHING FREE FIRST The built-in Sample Mural is a full playground—explore the palette, calculator, outlines, and paint-by-number features before deciding. Swatchy Pro unlocks paint names, codes, match percentages, quantities, and files for your own photos. Choose weekly, monthly, or one-time lifetime access, each with welcome outline credits. Outlines use credits: Simple uses 1 and Detailed uses 2. Credit packs are available anytime, and credits never expire. Available in 17 languages. Made by a muralist, for everyone who paints. — Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://middlevitalemurals.com/privacy-policy