PaintKeep: Miniature Paints
Model color inventory & swaps
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
The tutorial names a colour you don't own. PaintKeep ranks what's actually on your shelf by perceptual distance, so you know whether it's a true swap or close enough.
The guide calls for a colour you don't own. Again.
PaintKeep answers the question every other paint app dodges: not "what is the equivalent in some other range", but "what is on my shelf right now that will actually work".
Record the pots you own once. From then on, any colour named in a tutorial, army list or painting guide resolves to a ranked list of substitutes from your own rack — scored by perceptual colour distance, so a true swap is visibly different from a close-enough.
HOW IT WORKS
• Add the paints you actually own from a catalogue of thousands of colours across nineteen ranges.
• Name the colour a guide asked for — search it, or lift it straight out of a photo of the tutorial.
• Read the match rail. Every paint you own is plotted by real perceptual distance, with the closest one shown butted edge to edge against the target so you can judge the join yourself.
• Save the swap into a project, and find it again three weeks later when the model comes back off the shelf.
WHY THE DISTANCE IS THE POINT
Most colour tools compare paints in RGB, which is not how eyes work — it will happily tell you two dark browns are further apart than two bright yellows that look identical.
PaintKeep uses CIEDE2000 in CIE Lab space, the same perceptual difference model used in colour-critical printing and manufacturing. Every result is scored and sorted into four honest bands: Match, Close, Usable, Different. When nothing on your shelf lands close, it says so, and names the nearest thing anyway.
WORKS WITHOUT A SIGNAL
The whole colour catalogue ships inside the app. No account, no sign-in, no network calls at all. It works at a club table, in a basement, or on a plane.
ABOUT THE COLOUR DATA
Colour values are derived from published manufacturer swatch data and community conversion tables. They approximate a physical pigment under unknown lighting — they are not spectrophotometer readings, and thin or heavy application shifts them further. Matches tell you what to reach for first, not what is guaranteed to be identical. Metallics, washes and inks carry an extra caution, because a single flat colour value can't describe how they behave on a model.
FREE AND PLUS
Free gives you a shelf of up to 25 paints, unlimited lookups, and the top three matches for any colour.
PaintKeep Plus removes the ceiling:
• Unlimited paints on your shelf
• The complete ranked list, not just the top three
• Project recipes you can create and edit
• Pick a colour straight out of a photo
PaintKeep Plus is $2.99 per month, or $14.99 per year with a 7-day free trial. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends, and can be managed or cancelled in your Apple Account settings.
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Information
- Seller
- Marek Sokol
- Size
- 24 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- PaintKeep Plus Monthly $2.99
- PaintKeep Plus Yearly $14.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Marek Sokol