Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker vs PenPick
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker
This app helps artists manage their colored pencil inventory. Users can track their supply, set reorder points, and access a catalog with detailed pencil information. It's designed for artists with extensive collections to plan projects and manage art supplies.
- Track colored pencil inventory
- Set minimum supply alerts
- Access detailed pencil catalog
- View color swatches
- Manage art supply stock
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With Rainbow Fish, you'll never be in the dark about your colored pencil supply again! Are you an artist with a large inventory of colored pencils? Use Rainbow Fish to keep track of your pencil inventory right from your iPhone. Select your pencils, set the minimum amount of supply to keep on hand, and Rainbow Fish does the rest! The Rainbow Fish catalog provides many types of pencils from several popular colored pencil makers. You can search the catalog and view specific details about each pencil, including a color swatch. Having all this pencil information readily available on your iPhone or iPod touch is essential to planning your next project, placing an art supply order or replenishing your pencil stock at the art store.
PenPick
This app helps artists find the perfect colored or graphite pencils to match any color in their reference images. It offers a curated selection of popular pencil brands and their available shades.
- Color matching for drawings
- Suggestions for colored pencils
- Suggestions for graphite pencils
- Supports popular pencil brands
- Curated selection of 24 colored pencil sets
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Paid subscription-based app Weekly: 3 USD Monthly: 6 USD Yearly: 19 USD START USING THE RIGHT PENCILS FOR YOUR DRAWINGS! PenPick is a fantastic color picker designed specifically for artists. It cleverly suggests the ideal colored or graphite pencils to match any color you pick. With PenPick, you have two panels at your disposal: one for colored pencils and another for graphite pencils. PenPick provides a selection of the 24 most popular colored pencils for you to work with: Arteza Expert • 120 Black Widow • 180 Caran d'Ache Luminance • 100 Caran d'Ache Pablo • 120 Castle Arts Gold Standard • 120 Castle Arts Soft Touch • 120 Crayola Colored Pencils • 120 Derwent Artists • 120 Derwent Coloursoft • 72 Derwent Chromaflow • 72 Derwent Inktense • 100 Derwent Lightfast • 100 Derwent Procolour • 72 Derwent Studio • 72 Faber-Castell Black Edition • 100 Faber-Castell Goldfaber • 48 Faber-Castell Polychromos • 120 Holbein Artists • 150 Koh-I-Noor Polycolor • 144 Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor • 72 Prismacolor Premier • 150 Shuttle Art • 174 STAEDTLER 146C • 72 Tombow irojiten • 100
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PenPick at none against Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker's 2. Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 0%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. PenPick asks for nothing beyond the download.
PenPick holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 10 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker's written reviews are positive against 0% of PenPick's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker | PenPick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (7 ratings) | 3.3 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Taptronics, L.L.C. | Susak Jasmina |
Customer experience
Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker
PenPick
In-app purchases
Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Remove Ads + Donate$4.99
PenPick
No in-app purchases
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