PaintMix — Paint Mixing Studio
Color mixer, palette & recipes
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
ee a color you love? PaintMix turns it into paint on your palette —
or the right pencil in your hand.
SUBJECT — Load any photo, rotate and crop it, and pick any pixel with
the crosshair: a named color match with a ΔE accuracy score, ready to
mix.
PALETTE — Build the palette before you touch a brush: the fewest tubes
that can mix your picture's shapes, chosen from YOUR paints. See how
much of each to squeeze out (blob area = amount), then a mixing chart
for every shape. Save palettes by name — one for portraits, one for
landscapes — or photograph the paint already on your desk and mix from
those exact colors.
PAINT — Your reference reduced to flat values or colors, ready to
block in. A transfer grid, pinch-zoom, and touch any shape to find its
color. Then photograph your actual canvas, line up its drawn grid, and
get an honest cell-by-cell review: "B2 — too warm, a touch light."
Lighting is absorbed first, and unpainted canvas is never counted
against you.
MIX — Real recipes with sliders that always total 100 and a live ΔE
readout. Recipes come from your laid-out palette; when it can't reach
a color, PaintMix suggests the one tube from your library that closes
the gap.
PENCILS & MARKERS — Flip one switch and the studio changes: closest
pencil matches, two-color layering in the right order (lighter first),
and pressure guidance — a pencil held lightly is a tint of itself.
Colored-pencil and marker ranges included.
MY LIBRARY — Mark the tubes, pencils, and markers you own; everything
draws from your shelf, not a catalog. 13,000+ colors across 130 real
product lines — Winsor & Newton, Golden, Liquitex, Schmincke, Daniel
Smith, Prismacolor, Faber-Castell, Copic, Ohuhu and more — plus custom
colors for anything we missed.
SAVE — Keep the mixes and palettes that worked; reload them intact.
Built on real color science: CIEDE2000 difference, spectral
Kubelka-Munk mixing (blue + yellow makes green, like actual paint),
and Display P3 sampling.
Pictures where the paragraphs were: the canvas review, check-my-mix, lighting, grounds and outline cards each open with a small illustration. Live squint — the camera showing the scene as a few flat values — now has a labelled button beside Choose photo and Take photo. Plus the rating prompt and everything from 1.0.2.
The developer, Mark Bickenbach, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Mark Bickenbach
- Size
- 3.8 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.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 PlateForge LLC
