Mix Therapy: Acrylic Paint
Photo to Paint Mixing Recipe
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Mix from the acrylic paints you own. See why an estimate differs, check the dry swatch, and record one controlled correction—private and offline.
Turn a color from a reference photo into a practical acrylic mixing recipe built from the paints on your table.
Mix Therapy is an offline acrylic paint mixing notebook for artists. Choose a HEX target or sample a color from a photo, select the tubes you own, and compare three starting recipes. Then make a small swatch, let it dry, and use Mix Check to see how the real paint differs.
FROM REFERENCE TO RECIPE
• Sample a target color from a photo on your iPhone or iPad
• Extract a compact five-color palette
• Search the built-in acrylic catalog by paint name, brand, or pigment code
• Add custom tubes using your own dry swatch
• Generate recommended, simpler, and alternative routes
• Measure ratios as Parts or convert them with a clear Drops per Part setting
• See whether an estimate is lighter, darker, more muted, more intense, or shifted in color bias
• Discover one paint-kit opportunity when another pigment meaningfully improves the digital estimate
CHECK THE REAL PAINT
Screen color and physical pigment are not identical. Photograph your dry swatch beside a matte near-white reference. Mix Check corrects the lighting, compares the swatch with your target using Delta E, and suggests one controlled adjustment from the paints you selected. Record the paint and ratio you actually used, then measure whether the next dry swatch got closer.
YOUR STUDIO NOTEBOOK
• Save, reopen, rename, duplicate, and share recipes
• Export a recipe card as PNG
• Back up or restore project data and available reference photos in a versioned archive
• Build a local calibration history from verified dry swatches
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Reference and swatch photos are processed on your device. The current version requires no account and includes no advertising or analytics SDK.
IMPORTANT
Mix Therapy provides digital starting estimates, not guaranteed pigment formulas. Results vary with brand, pigment chemistry, opacity, medium, surface, lighting, paint batch, and acrylic dry shift. Always test a small swatch and let it dry before scaling an important batch.
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Paint Library is easier to read and use.
• Single-column paint cards on compact screens give each tube more room.
• Paint names, brands, and pigment codes wrap instead of being cut short.
• Clearer controls on the paper background in both system light and dark appearance.
• Improved layouts for larger accessibility text, with separate paint actions still available.
• A clear explanation when fewer than two paints are selected for mixing.
Your mixing data stays on your device.
The developer, Dat Thanh Nguyen, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Dat Thanh Nguyen
- Size
- 7.1 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Mix Therapy