Comparison

ThiColor vs PaintMixLab

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

Head to head
About

ThiColor

Capture any color from your surroundings or photos and instantly receive a precise paint recipe. This tool breaks down colors into specific pigments and ratios, offering a step-by-step AI guide for recreating images through painting.

Highlights
  • Color snapping from camera or photos
  • Paint pigment and ratio generation
  • Save favorite colors to palette
  • AI-powered 3-step painting guides
  • Color breakdown for image recreation
Features
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ThiColor — translate any color into a paint recipe. Spot a color you love? Snap it, and ThiColor breaks it down into the exact pigments and ratios you need to mix it. [Color Palette] Snap any color Use the camera or pick a photo. ThiColor extracts the dominant colors and gives you a paint recipe for each — what to mix, in what ratio. Save favorites to your palette. [AI Breakdown] New in 1.5 Upload a reference photo and our AI turns it into a 3-step painting guide. Each step shows the new colors introduced and which paints to mix. Follow along to recreate the original. — — — — — — Terms of Use https://thecolor.unapod.com/terms Privacy Policy https://thecolor.unapod.com/privacy

About

PaintMixLab

Features
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Photograph anything. Mix it with the tubes you already own. Point PaintMixLab at a photo — a landscape, a portrait, a swatch in a magazine — tap a colour, and get a recipe written in the paints on your table: up to three tubes, in whole parts. WHY THE RECIPES WORK Screens mix light. Paint mixes pigment, and the two behave nothing alike — blue and yellow light make grey, blue and yellow paint make green. PaintMixLab models how each pigment absorbs and scatters light across 38 bands of the spectrum, fitted to real painted swatches rather than guessed from a hex code. That is why a recipe comes out the colour it says it will. WHAT'S IN IT • Sample any colour from a photograph • 379 paints across 10 sets — from 14-colour beginner boxes to 93-colour artist ranges • Recipes in whole parts, with how close the match is • Blocks: the dominant colour masses of your photo, largest first, so you can block in the big shapes before the detail • Style studies after Van Gogh, Monet, Turner and other masters — simulated brushwork and palette, computed on your phone, no AI and no upload • Calibrate your own tubes: paint a swatch, photograph it, and the model adjusts to your particular paint and your particular white • Calibrations sync across your devices YOUR PHOTOS STAY ON YOUR DEVICE Colour sampling happens on your phone. Images are never uploaded — not to us, not to anyone. HONEST ABOUT ITS LIMITS A recipe is a starting point, not a guarantee. Tube batches vary, paint thickness changes a colour, and the light you paint under is not the light you photographed in. PaintMixLab gets you close enough that the last adjustment is a small one. SUBSCRIPTION PaintMixLab Pro — $2.99 per month, with the first 3 days free. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in Settings › your name › Subscriptions. Terms of use: https://paintmixlab.com/terms-of-use/ Privacy policy: https://paintmixlab.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

ThiColor3 screens
PaintMixLab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: PaintMixLab at 15.0.0 against ThiColor's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. ThiColor sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and PaintMixLab sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ThiColor versus PaintMixLab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThiColorPaintMixLab
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBeijing Shuishan Shiliu Technology Co., LtdJason Ehleben

In-app purchases

6 purchases

ThiColor

Subscriptions6
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Basic monthly$8.991 Month
  • Pro Monthly$18.991 Month
Show 3 more
  • Yearly$24.991 Year
  • 年度基础会员$89.991 Year
  • Pro Yearly$189.991 Year
1 purchases

PaintMixLab

Subscriptions1
  • PaintMixLab Pro3 Days trial$2.991 Month

Questions

Is ThiColor free?
ThiColor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PaintMixLab free?
PaintMixLab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ThiColor or PaintMixLab have ads?
Neither ThiColor nor PaintMixLab shows ads.

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