PaintMixLab
Oil paint color mixing recipes
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Photograph any scene, tap a colour, and get the tube-by-tube oil paint recipe to mix it. Recipes for Gamblin, Winsor & Newton, Magicfly and 7 more paint sets.
Photograph anything. Mix it with the tubes you already own.
PaintMixLab is a colour mixing guide for oil painting (acrylic and gouache painters use it too). It turns any photo into paint colour recipes written in the tubes on your table.
Point PaintMixLab at a photo — a landscape, a portrait, a swatch in a magazine — tap a colour, and get a recipe written in the paints on your table: up to three tubes, in whole parts.
WHY THE RECIPES WORK
Screens mix light. Paint mixes pigment, and the two behave nothing alike — blue and yellow light make grey, blue and yellow paint make green. PaintMixLab models how each pigment absorbs and scatters light across 38 bands of the spectrum, fitted to real painted swatches rather than guessed from a hex code. That is why a recipe comes out the colour it says it will.
WHAT'S IN IT
• Sample any colour from a photograph
• 379 paints across 10 sets — from 14-colour beginner boxes to 93-colour artist ranges
• Recipes in whole parts, with how close the match is
• Blocks: the dominant colour masses of your photo, largest first, so you can block in the big shapes before the detail
• Style studies after Van Gogh, Monet, Turner and other masters — simulated brushwork and palette, computed on your phone, no AI and no upload
• Calibrate your own tubes: paint a swatch, photograph it, and the model adjusts to your particular paint and your particular white
• Calibrations sync across your devices
YOUR PHOTOS STAY ON YOUR DEVICE
Colour sampling happens on your phone. Images are never uploaded — not to us, not to anyone.
HONEST ABOUT ITS LIMITS
A recipe is a starting point, not a guarantee. Tube batches vary, paint thickness changes a colour, and the light you paint under is not the light you photographed in. PaintMixLab gets you close enough that the last adjustment is a small one.
SUBSCRIPTION
PaintMixLab Pro — $2.99 per month, with the first 3 days free. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in Settings › your name › Subscriptions.
Terms of use: https://paintmixlab.com/terms-of-use/
Privacy policy: https://paintmixlab.com/privacy-policy/
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Information
- Seller
- Jason Ehleben
- Size
- 31.3 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- PaintMixLab Pro $2.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jason Ehleben