Comparison

Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker vs Filament

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

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About

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.

Highlights
  • Track colored pencil inventory
  • Set minimum supply alerts
  • Access detailed pencil catalog
  • View color swatches
  • Manage art supply stock
Features
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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.

About

Filament

Features
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Take control of your 3D printer filament collection. Filament Tracker is a native app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac that gives every spool a unique ID, a home, and a complete history — from purchase to retirement. — ASK YOUR INVENTORY ANYTHING — Type a question — like "how many grams of red PLA do I have?" — and get an instant answer instead of adding it up yourself. Powered entirely by on-device Apple Intelligence, so nothing leaves your device and no internet connection is required. No Apple Intelligence on your device? Search still works exactly as before. — KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE — Browse your entire collection filtered by state, brand, type, color family, or location, with live counts on each filter option. Sort by grams remaining to spot low spools at a glance. Every spool shows its true filament color with the hex code alongside it, and tracks its weight, state (New → In Use → Low → Empty → Retired) with an at-a-glance colored stripe, event history, and photos. — SMART INTAKE & AUTO-FILL — Skip tedious data entry. Paste text from a product page or receipt—or on iPhone and iPad, use your camera to scan text off box and bag labels. On compatible devices, on-device Apple Intelligence parses it to extract the spool's brand, material, color, and net weight instantly. — SCAN TO FIND. SCAN TO MOVE. — Print a QR code for any spool or location, scannable on iPhone or iPad, or use your iPhone to write and scan custom NFC tags at your workbench. A quick tap or scan instantly identifies what's loaded and where it is. Move a spool to a new location in two quick scans. — LOCATIONS THAT FIT YOUR SETUP — Organize your collection by dry box, AMS unit, shelf, printer, or any location you define. Locations marked as Connected to Printer automatically count loaded spools as In Use. — TRACK EVERY GRAM — Log print sessions to keep grams-remaining accurate, or connect a Bluetooth scale to weigh a spool and get its remaining filament instantly — set the empty weight once and every future weigh-in subtracts it automatically. Attach photos from your camera, photo library, or Files to any spool or filament record. Track purchase price and source URL per spool, with per-spool currency overrides for international purchases. — BUILT-IN FILAMENT REFERENCE — Look up print temperatures, drying recommendations, density, and resistance ratings for ~30 filament types — from PLA and PETG to specialty materials like PA6-CF, BVOH, and ASA. Tap any entry to filter your spools by that type. — ICLOUD SYNC — Your inventory syncs silently across all your devices via CloudKit. Works fully offline; changes sync automatically when connectivity returns. Full sync diagnostics and a cache reset are available in Settings. — BACKUP & RESTORE — Export a complete snapshot — spools, filament, locations, event history, photos, and reference data — as a portable archive or a plain JSON file for hand-editing. Restore at any time using a safe path that never risks accidental data loss to iCloud. — CSV EXPORT & IMPORT — Export your full inventory as a 28-column CSV for Numbers, Excel, or any spreadsheet app. Import it back to bulk-update brand, type, color, location, purchase info, and more — matched by Spool ID, with missing reference entries created automatically. — LIGHT MODE & ACCESSIBILITY — The app now follows your device's Light or Dark Mode setting automatically, and every screen supports VoiceOver and Dynamic Type. — SEAMLESS MAC COMPANION — The app runs natively on Mac with the same data, sync, and features as on iPhone and iPad, including search right from macOS Spotlight. The Mac version additionally supports the TD-1 filament tester — capture optical transmission-distance and hex color readings directly via USB and sync them back to your iOS devices automatically. No subscriptions. No account required beyond iCloud — your data stays in your own private iCloud database. An optional one-time tip in Settings earns a Supporter badge, never required.

Screenshots

Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker4 screens
Filament4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Filament at none against Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker's 2. Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 26.0). 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. Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Filament asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker versus Filament: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRainbow Fish Pencil TrackerFilament
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.2 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS9.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTaptronics, L.L.C.David Oreol

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker

One-time2
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • Remove Ads + Donate$4.99
None

Filament

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker free?
Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Filament free?
Filament is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker or Filament have ads?
Neither Rainbow Fish Pencil Tracker nor Filament shows ads.

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