paintRack

Name: paintRack
Rating: 4.9 (207 reviews)
Author: Courageous Octopus

A virtual paint rack

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

207 Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Lifestyle
Developer

Courageous Octopus
Language

EN
English
Size

88.3
MB

Track your hobby model paint collection now! Scan their barcodes. Find matches of paint colors across brands. Save your miniature paint recipes for future reference. FEATURES: LIBRARY: track your paints with over 27000 paints from top brands! SETS: create custom paint SETS (or recipes) for your models WISH LIST: helps you track paints you need *RAPID SCAN: most bottles can be added by scanning barcodes on bottles *COLOR TOOLS: will help you find the best matching paint colors *Available in Full Version Supported paint lines include: - Abteilung 502 - Aero Color (Schmincke) - AK Interactive - Alclad II - AMMO by MIG Jimenez - Andrea Color - Apple Barrel - Archive-X - Army Painter (Warpaints) - Badger Minitaire - Battlefront (Colours of War) - Bear Cavalry - Citadel - Coat d'Arms - Colour Forge - Createx - Cuttlefish Colors by Cephalopod Studios - CVLTCRAFT (CPOP) - Darkstar - DecoArt - Delta Ceramcoat - Dirty Down - Folk Art - Forge World - FREAKflex - FW Inks - Gaianotes - GarageKits.US - Golden - Green Stuff World - Hataka - Huge Miniatures - Humbrol - Instar - IONIC (AMMO) - Italeri - Jo Sonja's - Kaleido ColorWorks - Kimera Kolors - Lifecolor - Liquitex - Metalsmith - Mindtaker Miniatures - Mission Models - Model Master - Molotow - Mr. Hobby (Gunze) - Mr. Paint (MRP) - Nocturna - NuWorlds (Iwata-Medea) - P3 (Privateer Press) - Pactra - Pokorny (Dwarf Forge) - Pro Acryl (Monument Hobbies) - Reaper - Revell - Scale Modellers Supply - Scale75 - Secret Weapon - Splash Paints - Stynylrez - Tamiya - Testors - TTCombat - Turbo Dork - Two Thin Coats - Ultracryl - Vallejo - Villainy Inks - Warcolours - Wargames Foundry - Winsor & Newton In-app colors are approximate, usually as provided by the brands themselves.

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Ratings & Reviews

4.9

out of 5

207 Ratings

Super useful tool
12/12/2022

Lostzx81
Great way to catalog your paints, find matches/alternatives for colors, and to build and save ‘sets’ or colors for projects. The app has a very complete set of paint ranges, from Apple Barrel craft paints, through to Two Thin Coats. Feels like a real passion project. I’d love to be able to scroll a bit further ‘left and right’ in a color hue match (you get the closest five matches to a hue for each manufacturer) — say by holding the best match, but the five is good enough most of the time. It would also be great to have a way to find a color that is close match with a bit of a tint or shade. Not sure if that is even possible? Well worth the investment. I would also like to be able to use across my devices, but I don’t think I can use a common library on my phone and iPad.

Developer Response
If you use one device as the "main", you can export from it and import to the secondary device. But yes, we need to add more support for cross-device use!
Super useful tool
12/12/2022

Lostzx81

Great way to catalog your paints, find matches/alternatives for colors, and to build and save ‘sets’ or colors for projects. The app has a very complete set of paint ranges, from Apple Barrel craft paints, through to Two Thin Coats. Feels like a real passion project. I’d love to be able to scroll a bit further ‘left and right’ in a color hue match (you get the closest five matches to a hue for each manufacturer) — say by holding the best match, but the five is good enough most of the time. It would also be great to have a way to find a color that is close match with a bit of a tint or shade. Not sure if that is even possible? Well worth the investment. I would also like to be able to use across my devices, but I don’t think I can use a common library on my phone and iPad.
Developer Response 12/14/2022
If you use one device as the "main", you can export from it and import to the secondary device. But yes, we need to add more support for cross-device use!
Great App with a couple of Usability issues
09/14/2024

RadicalKit
Overall PaintRack is an extremlely useful app for mini painters. However there are some Usability issue that if resolved could easily push it to the next level.Building your paint library in the beginning can be a bit annoyoinb because you have to add everything 1 item at a time and then jump jump back to the library. Having the /- buttons directly on the library view would be very helpful The ability to scan more than 1 item at a time would also be very useful. A function bulk add an entire set (like say the Army Painter Speedpaint Mega Set) would also be great.The other area that could be improved is better organization among manufacturers. For example with Ammo paint, you have multiple completely different lines of paints but they are all just lumped under the AMMO heading making very hard. That said, once do have your library loaded in everything else is very useful.
Great App with a couple of Usability issues
09/14/2024

RadicalKit

Overall PaintRack is an extremlely useful app for mini painters. However there are some Usability issue that if resolved could easily push it to the next level.Building your paint library in the beginning can be a bit annoyoinb because you have to add everything 1 item at a time and then jump jump back to the library. Having the /- buttons directly on the library view would be very helpful The ability to scan more than 1 item at a time would also be very useful. A function bulk add an entire set (like say the Army Painter Speedpaint Mega Set) would also be great.The other area that could be improved is better organization among manufacturers. For example with Ammo paint, you have multiple completely different lines of paints but they are all just lumped under the AMMO heading making very hard. That said, once do have your library loaded in everything else is very useful.
Great for tracking which paints you have but okay for color matching.
05/07/2024

Carpy cutsomer cervix
Get this app if you’ve ever mistakenly bought the same paint twice because you weren’t sure if you had it at home.Update* Changed to 4*. After emailing with the team at paintRack some suggestions improved the usefulness of the paint match function: click the little number in the top right to view the color distance value from your color to the brand you’re searching- under 5 is a good match, 5-10 is okay-ish, more than 10 is a bad match. Not all brands will have a good match. I also made sure I didn’t have any restrictions in my megaFilter. I still get some matches for metallic paints when searching flat base paints so just keep a keen eye for paint type and only use metallic paints in the filter when you’re looking for metallic matches.

Developer Response
Hey, please send us an email. Something isn't right if it doesn't seem to be working for color matching.
Great for tracking which paints you have but okay for color matching.
05/07/2024

Carpy cutsomer cervix

Get this app if you’ve ever mistakenly bought the same paint twice because you weren’t sure if you had it at home.Update* Changed to 4*. After emailing with the team at paintRack some suggestions improved the usefulness of the paint match function: click the little number in the top right to view the color distance value from your color to the brand you’re searching- under 5 is a good match, 5-10 is okay-ish, more than 10 is a bad match. Not all brands will have a good match. I also made sure I didn’t have any restrictions in my megaFilter. I still get some matches for metallic paints when searching flat base paints so just keep a keen eye for paint type and only use metallic paints in the filter when you’re looking for metallic matches.
Developer Response 05/04/2024
Hey, please send us an email. Something isn't right if it doesn't seem to be working for color matching.
A Must for Miniature Painters
12/03/2023

FenrisianReaper
I have been trying to find a way to catalogue what paints I have so I quit buying doubles of ones I’m never sure on. This app has fixed that! I also love that it allows me to keep track of specific tasks and notes for what I’m doing on my projects! I would love to see it eventually allow you to upload pictures to the project area so you can watch progress or have your picture references in an area.Only issue I’ve had so far is I paid for the app on my iPad but it doesn’t reflect that on my iPhone even though I’ve logged in with my AppleID on both devices in the app. I noticed cross function between apps was mentioned by the developer on someone else’s review so hopefully that’s in a future update to come!
A Must for Miniature Painters
12/03/2023

FenrisianReaper

I have been trying to find a way to catalogue what paints I have so I quit buying doubles of ones I’m never sure on. This app has fixed that! I also love that it allows me to keep track of specific tasks and notes for what I’m doing on my projects! I would love to see it eventually allow you to upload pictures to the project area so you can watch progress or have your picture references in an area.Only issue I’ve had so far is I paid for the app on my iPad but it doesn’t reflect that on my iPhone even though I’ve logged in with my AppleID on both devices in the app. I noticed cross function between apps was mentioned by the developer on someone else’s review so hopefully that’s in a future update to come!

New brands: Bear Cavalry IONIC now separate from AMMO New features: Color Wheel for your library Quick add paints through double tap in library New paints: Kaleido ColorWorks K025-K048 DecoArt 2026 Acrylics Jo Sonja's Fine Artist's Mediums Mission Models RC AK Interactive Quick Markers SMS Auto Colour Army Painter Wandering Monsters Fixes: Various bottle updates and corrections

Version 1.42.0 9h ago

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Seller: Courageous Octopus LLC
Size: 88.3 MB
Category: Lifestyle
Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.5 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 15.5 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.5 or later.

iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.5 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

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Languages: English
Age Rating: 4+

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Ratings & Reviews

Super useful tool

Great App with a couple of Usability issues

Great for tracking which paints you have but okay for color matching.

A Must for Miniature Painters

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