Comparison

MechHitting vs Model Colors

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

Head to head
About

MechHitting

This application assists players of the Battletech tabletop game by quickly determining the location of a hit. It simplifies a common game mechanic, making gameplay smoother and faster for enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Dice roll for hit location
  • Battletech game mechanic helper
  • Rapid determination
  • Tabletop game utility
Features
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This is dice roll application for the rapid determination of the hit location on Battletech tabletop game.

About

Model Colors

This app helps hobbyists manage their paint collections for models. Track colors you own, colors you need, and easily share lists. Find similar colors and organize them into custom lists for different projects.

Highlights
  • Track owned and needed paint colors
  • Browse over 40,000 colors from various brands
  • Share color lists via email and messaging
  • Set favorite colors for quick access
  • Find similar colors using standards or calculations
  • Create custom color lists for projects
Features
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Model Colors is an application for helping you keep track of your hobby model colors and projects. Have you ever ended up buying the wrong colors because you didn’t remember the exact code of the color you needed or forgot to get that pesky Dunkelgelb that you needed to finish that glorious tank you’re working on? If so, then Model Colors helps you keep track of the colors that you own and the colors that you need to buy. The application contains lists of all colors from a set of brands and you can browse these lists and mark the ones you already own and the ones you need to buy. Currently the app has over 50000 colors included from most big and many small manufacturers. The lists of your own colors and colors that you need to buy can be easily shared via mail, iMessage etc. If you mainly use some particular color types or individual colors you can set them as favorites and easily access them from the main menu. You can check for colors that are similar to a certain color either via color standards like FS, RAL, RLM etc, or via industry standard CIE deltaE 2000 calculations. Various colors can also be grouped together for quick access into custom color lists. You can keep the colors you normally use for US airplanes in one list and colors you use for fantasy miniatures in another, making them easy to find. Some of the included brands: Abteilung 502, Agama, AKAN, AK Interactive, Alclad II, Ammo, Andrea, AOK Silveroaks, Apple Barrell, Arcus Hobby Colors, Army Painter, Badger, Bits of War, Coat D'Arms, Colour Forge, Craft Smart, Createx, Creature Caster, Daler-Rowney, Darkstar Miniatures, Duncan Rhodes Painting Academy, Dwarven Forge, E7, Fantasy Flight Games, Faskolor, Fire Scale Modeler, Flames of War, Flory Models, ForgeWorld, Gaia, Gamescraft, Games Workshop, Golden, Gravity Colors, Green Stuff World, Hannants, Hataka, Heller, Hobby Mio, Huge Miniatures, Humbrol, ICM, Instar, Italeri, Jo Sonja's, Jumpwind, Kimera Models, Lefranc Bourgeois, LifeColor, Liquitex, Meng, Microscale, MIG Productions, Minuteman Scale Models, Mission Models, Modellers World, Modo, Monkey Modelling Paints, Monument Hobbies, Mr. Hobby, MR Paint, Nocturna Models, Paasche, Pacific88, Pactra, Pledge, Prince August, Privateer Press, ProScale Paints, Rackham, Reaper, Rembrandt, Revell, Rust-Oleum, Scale75, Scale Colors, Scale Modellers Supply, Sovereign Hobbies, Splash Paints, Tamiya, Testors, Titans Hobby, Tru-Color, True Earth, TT Combat, Turbo Dork, Ultimate Modelling Products, Vallejo, Vantage Modelling Solutions, Warcolours, Wargames Foundry, Warlord Games, Wilder, Winsor & Newton. You can also add the models that you are working on or plan to build in the future. For each model you can register the colors that are required and make sure that you don't forget to buy any essential colors. Each model can have a photos associated with it as well as notes. Using the notes and photos it is easy to keep a build diary or just keep track of things that you need to do at some point. Model Colors requires iCloud and iCloud Drive to be enabled for the app to work. iCloud Drive is used to save photos and documents for our models. Model Colors uses a subscription in order to support the application development and there's a trial period that lets you evaluate the app. Please see the link https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ for the End User License Agreement.

Screenshots

MechHitting3 screens
Model Colors4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MechHitting at none against Model Colors's 4. MechHitting also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 26.0). Model Colors's advantage is review sentiment (61% vs 33%) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price, ads 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. Model Colors sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. MechHitting asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Model Colors holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Model Colors has 449 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of MechHitting's written reviews are positive against 61% of Model Colors's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MechHitting ships an update every 4 months, Model Colors monthly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
MechHitting versus Model Colors: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMechHittingModel Colors
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (10 ratings)4.6 (449 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews60.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10449 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS9.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTakahiro NiijimaD-Pointer Oy

Customer experience

MechHitting

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral50.0%
Negative16.7%

Model Colors

All ratings447 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral2.9%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews193 reviews
Positive60.6%
Neutral3.6%
Negative35.8%

In-app purchases

None

MechHitting

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Model Colors

Subscriptions4
  • 1 month subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • 3 month subscription14 Days trial$1.993 Months
  • 6 month subscription1 Month trial$3.496 Months
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  • 1 year subscription1 Month trial$5.991 Year

Questions

Is MechHitting free?
MechHitting is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Model Colors free?
Model Colors is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, MechHitting or Model Colors?
Model Colors is rated higher. MechHitting averages 4.3 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Model Colors averages 4.6 from 449 ratings.
Do MechHitting or Model Colors have ads?
Neither MechHitting nor Model Colors shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MechHitting or Model Colors?
MechHitting ships an update every 4 months, and Model Colors monthly. Most recently, MechHitting was updated on October 24, 2026 and Model Colors on October 24, 2026.

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