Comparison

GreyForge vs Paco

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

Head to head
About

GreyForge

Visualize miniature paint schemes and receive expert guidance before you paint. This app helps hobbyists plan their projects, test colors, and generate custom painting guides to achieve professional results.

Highlights
  • Realistic color scheme previews
  • Technical painting guidance and critique
  • Custom step-by-step painting guides
  • Advanced art style selection
  • Project gallery and sharing
Features
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Bring your miniatures to life before you even pick up your brush! GreyForge is the ultimate companion for miniature painters, tabletop gamers, and hobbyists. Whether you are a beginner looking to paint your first DnD miniatures or a Warhammer veteran planning a complex army project, GreyForge streamlines your hobby workflow. Save time, avoid paint mistakes, and achieve professional results with confidence! Download GreyForge today and paint with a plan! KEY FEATURES TO BOOST YOUR PAINTING SKILLS: - Realistic Color Previews: Snapshot a primed, unpainted, or basecoated miniature and instantly test hundreds of professional color schemes. Perfect your palette and visualize the final result before touching a brush to your precious models. - Technical Painting Coach: Get expert digital guidance and constructive critiques on your work-in-progress or finished minis. Improve your blending, highlights, shading, and contrast to sharpen your skills with every single project. - Tailored Painting Recipes & Guides: Once you find your perfect look, GreyForge generates a custom step-by-step painting guide. From base coating to shading, dry brushing, and edge highlighting, we provide the exact roadmap and paint recipes you need. - Advanced Art Styles: Choose from various professional aesthetics including Grimdark, OSL (Object Source Lighting), cinematic diorama, and high-contrast styles to find your unique signature style. - Project Gallery & Sharing: Save your digital renders, track your army's progress, and export your future projects to share with your local gaming group or friends. --- Built by hobbyists, for hobbyists. GreyForge is here to help you get inspired, beat the "grey pile of shame", and finish your models with pride. Unleash your creativity at the hobby desk - Download GreyForge now!

About

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 — 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 — no signal, aeroplane mode, hobby shop basement — 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. — 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.

Screenshots

GreyForge4 screens
Paco4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Paco at none against GreyForge's 5. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. GreyForge sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Paco asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
GreyForge versus Paco: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGreyForgePaco
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (16 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAgileXPerienceMusashi

In-app purchases

5 purchases

GreyForge

Subscriptions3
  • GreyForge Unlimited$9.991 Month
  • GreyForge unlimited$14.991 Month
  • GreyForge Unlimited Annual$114.991 Year
One-time2
  • Reinforcement Pack$7.99
  • Reinforcement Pack$12.99
None

Paco

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GreyForge free?
GreyForge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Paco free?
Paco is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do GreyForge or Paco have ads?
Neither GreyForge nor Paco shows ads.

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