Oil Painting Color Reviews

Update 2 - now not only is it not working well in the picture with the ads, but it crashes constantly. Could be a 5 star app but it needs some major fixing to even get back to a 3 star

Update: did the free 3 day trial and works much smoother on moving around the screen, so it must be their ads on screen that make it not as easy to use. If the cost was less to go ad free I would consider it, but it is way too overpriced as it is now in my opinion. The pictures themselves are great, with a great selection of free choices. The VIP pricing is ridiculous - a one time fee of $39 would be high, a monthly fee of that price is way too expensive. I don’t love the way that everything appears gray until you zoom way in, it makes it harder to find the selected color spots for no reason. I also get frustrated that it changes the color of the areas you touch that aren’t the color you use. All this does is make zooming in and moving around the pictures unnecessarily difficult. All in all, a good product that with a few tweaks could be great.

This game has been enjoyable for quite awhile, but I’ve been noticing some of the pictures have an extraordinary number of different colors in it, and most of these only color 1 or 2 spaces each. An example is the picture of three surfboards with a circular, blue background. There are 168 different colors in it. That wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing if the color differences made some sense, but many of these nonsensical colors also appear to be repeats of colors that were used previously, elsewhere in the picture.
Maybe it’s more difficult because my eyesight isn’t the greatest, and even though hunting and finding the very tiny dots of color is OK when there are only a few of them, having to spend a lot of time finding them causes eye strain that’s really uncomfortable.
There have been other pictures, such as the horse with the beige colored eye, that are equally distracting and, since there’s no way to determine that prior to getting started on a particular painting, OilPaintingColor isn’t fun anymore. Again, I loved OilPaintingColor for a long time, but I’ll be deleting it.

Update: The developers replied and said I should update OilPaintingColor , but I had already updated to the latest version when I wrote my review. All my completed images are still gone. Especially don’t like that the colors don’t advance once you finish one, but it’s obvious they want you tapping in the color area more often because the ad is right there. More tapping means more errant taps on the ads. Still like the end results, but OilPaintingColor is not as enjoyable as it was and I’m using it less.

This is my favorite coloring app. Just challenging enough to take a while, but not too hard, and a pretty pic at the end. (Although I never liked the obnoxious logo obscuring part of the picture when saving.) But the last update had OilPaintingColor constantly crashing, so I reinstalled and, like others, discovered all my completed pictures lost. Looking through the gallery, some that I had completed before are now premium, some are totally gone. Also, the find and fill hints dropped to 1 each. Hardly ever used those, so whatever. Honestly though, updates that take things away are just frustrating. The premium price is much too high and there are a couple of ads that give you a “close” button but nothing happens when you press it. Still my fave for the end result picture, but disappointed with recent changes. (Also, please stop the pop-up hints! No one needs those after the first two minutes.)

OilPaintingColor had a lot of good reviews so I was hopeful. But it did not take long for that feeling to fade. I started looking through all of the pictures and noticed most of them had little icons in the corner. Not knowing what they were, I clicked on the picture to find out. One of them told me I had to watch an ad to color those pictures. The other one told me they were for "premium" members and I can join the club for $20 a week! That's crazy! $20 a week! I continued on trying to find a picture to try. Now I really, really like dolphins. And I found one but I was really crushed to find out it was for the premium club members only. Just CRUSHED!! So I pick a picture to try out. One that wasn't premium or required me to watch an ad. Guess what I was greeted with? An ad that I had to watch! But I picked one that didn't require me to watch an ad! What the heck! What's the point of blocking some of the good pictures unless I watch an ad if you're forced to watch one anyway?! I think I'm going to remove OilPaintingColor.

New complaint….Just updated OilPaintingColor and most photos all need to be downloaded. Why fix something that isn’t broke. What is the point to that. Sometimes i am busy and can’t play OilPaintingColor so i backtrack. Hate when apps update and make OilPaintingColor less fun and more frustrating.

Old complaint
Edit to add .....so the new update fixed the opening view of the puzzle with getting rid of the very large numbers it’s still distracting when you enlarge the puzzle and the enlargement goes too far out. Please go back to two versions ago before the large number change. Was waiting for and was excited to see this update but only half the issue was fixed. I guess I’ll continue playing my jigsaw puzzles until it’s fixed or find a new paint by number. Shame because I loved OilPaintingColor I love OilPaintingColor and play it every day for I find it very calming. I would normally give this 4 stars (not 5 due to ads). I just went in and the pictures look different. In light Of this i would give it 1 star. I gave 3 as a compromise. The numbers are too large and take over the photo and when you go to enlarge the photos the numbers get even bigger and there is no stop to enlarging it like before. This is very distracting and makes it no fun or relaxing anymore. PLEASE PLEASE fix this back to how it was yesterday. If this doesn’t change I will have to find a new paint by numbers.

This game is great for passing by time or something to do if you are really bored. One major problem is that you need to have internet to be able to paint any of the pictures. As soon as you fill one spot in, you can use it where you please (plain, outside, etc...) I do think the developers need to a feature as to where you can color your own photos. As in choosing a photo from your camera roll, having OilPaintingColor split it up into different colors, and you can decide the difficulty. AKA, be more detailed with more colors, or less detailed with less colors. And then you can paint away. I would love this feature. Other than that, great game. I do recommend this game to others. Also I’ve noticed a lot of reviews about ads. Just turn on airplane mode when playing. It saves battery and disables ads.

First of all, I really enjoy OilPaintingColor and all the features it includes. It’s become a regular part of my day and is great for taking a break and de stressing. OilPaintingColor works well and is intuitive and easy to use on a phone though it is a little bit of a battery sucker (at least for my phone)

My biggest issue is simply that there doesn’t appear to be a way for your pictures to be saved so they can travel from device to device. For example, if I were to get a new phone and resownload OilPaintingColor, all my progress would be lost. Perhaps this is because I don’t have a subscription? I’m not sure, but it would be nice if you could log in using Facebook or email so that the pictures you already completed would be saved across multiple devices.

I think I reviewed this previously but can’t find it. Anyway, I’ve decided to update my old review because now that I’ve used it a while, I find I like it better than all other paint by numbers. Previously, I stated that it was hard to tell the shaded area for the number and color you’re working on from all the others. It shows up a lot better if you make the screen bigger and focused in more. Which I was wanting to do it without doing that but that would defeat the purpose of it being challenging I guess. And now that I think about how much fun it is, the price isn’t bad for the yearly subscription. I’m just wondering if I would do more than was available at a time then lol.

I used OilPaintingColor as free, first. Then, I paid the subscription price — weekly. Prices are ridiculously high for what you get. Most of the pictures are like they have been traced and use ridiculous colors. A giraffe is not green, orange, blue, etc. One of the last photos had a close-up of an elephant with orange ears. Come on!!! Finished picture is of poor quality. Other pictures are photo finish quality, but not many. They started to give me duplicates. I am not paying to do duplicate pictures. They also froze and crashed often. I have the puzzle app from this developer. Love it, but you need to step up to make this even equal to your puzzle app.

This has become my “go to” app when I need a soothing break from my hectic day (pretty much EVERY day)! Gradually watching the colorful painting emerge is mesmerizing! I love the beautiful scenes & artistic pix that burst into color as I work my way through the task of clicking the numbers to color-fill every space.

Had to reduce my rating bec of one annoyance! Several upgrades ago, the developers eliminated a key feature that I enjoyed! They changed the way “completed” colors are tracked on the palette at bottom of screen. Colors used to disappear off palette as you neared completion, allowing the palette to shrink. That made it MUCH easier, near the finish, to toggle between the remaining colors (w/o having to scroll endlessly!)

Follow-up: Edited review after helpful response from developer. Turns out the missing feature I’ve been complaining about for over a year was there after all! I was NOT AWARE that OilPaintingColor has settings that can be toggled off/on.

So I’ve raised my rating to 5 stars & am delighted! ...BUT... also annoyed that there was no mention of this setting option when the feature vanished!

This color/paint by number is fabulous! What I like about OilPaintingColor compared to others is that there are actual color schemes for each picture. 90% of the time, other apps use all the colors of the rainbow in one picture. OilPaintingColor offers Autumn tones, Spring tones, marine tones, etc. The finished pictures are works of art....very adult. I saw a review concerned with moving the picture to color better. I found this to be true using my fingers, but not much of an issue if using my Apple pen or other screen pen. Happy I purchased the subscription for hours of relaxing enjoyment.

Update: I like to not have to zoom in too far to find the right spaces to color so I can see the picture develop as I go. So thank you for showing the active spaces as a checkerboard to find them easier!

I started play 2weeks before the pandemic. I love it and even counted 734 pictures I had completed as of today. I have installed and deleted several others that I was not enjoying making this my only coloring game. The game started freezing and I deleted and reinstalled it. I did not know it would erase all the ones I had finished. I don’t mind redoing them because I enjoy OilPaintingColor . I would have liked a choice in clearing them since I am trying to do all the pictures that are available. I was considering purchasing to have all the pictures and no ads. Now I am not so sure I want to since it cleared all the pictures and knowing if I have to reinstall OilPaintingColor again it will erase everything each time.

“Adult coloring” ok, I admit, used to love to break out the crayons/colored pencils when younger but I prefer my time spent on something a little more challenging than a black light poster with a dozen colored markers or my granddaughter’s rag paper coloring books. I like a finished picture that resembles a painting or a thousand plus piece jigsaw puzzle.

This isn’t a coloring book. Pictures are vibrant. Color pallet looks more like walking into a high end paint store instead of a box of cheap crayons. Subjects are variable from wildlife to portraits, landscapes to still life. And from photo image to classic art styles similar to Monet or Warhol.

And free vs paid... there is more than enough free art work to keep one busy with 3+ new pictures released every day. Video ads are only when you open app up and when you start a new picture. Banner ad is small across bottom. Paid gets access to some beautiful art but I don’t feel frustrated or cheated by the free version like I have with many other apps.

Only thing I would like to see changed. Numbers for colors remain the same font size when zoomed. It would be nice if they got a little bigger.

UPDATE: Thank you for listening/reading our reviews. You removed the tabs. Our whole family enjoys this coloring app.

UPDATE: Thank You! The tabs have been remove. This has been a family thing to color. I really appreciate you taking feedback seriously. UPDATE: I was told that the questionable categories would soon be removed. “Thanks for your feedback.” Would you like to update your review. NO, nothing was removed. I’m so disappointed. This was my favorite drawing app. I have used OilPaintingColor for quite some time. This has been my favorite. I’m not sure when this happened but they added an erotic and horror section. My grandkids enjoyed doing some of these with me. Because of this I needed to delete OilPaintingColor .

When I first saw OilPaintingColor I thought that it would be like; color by number, unicorn coloring etc. But when I installed OilPaintingColor it was better than I though! I loved how all the paintings were complicated and honestly I think OilPaintingColor should have 5 stars. But I do have some suggestions; first please take down that ‘click the next color’ button. Or please make it in settings so that I can turn it off. The button always gets on my nerves when I don’t click it first! Also the only simpler pictures are the baby ones. I’m just wondering if maybe you could make a few more but in a different category. Thank you for listening. I love OilPaintingColor and it’s so much fun! OilPaintingColor also doesn’t only have around 15 out of 200 ( not actual numbers just metaphor) pictures that you can actually do without V.I.P. Thanks for reading! :)

Over the pandemic I got into doing paint by numbers and when I wasn’t at home I would wish I was home to do my paint by number. So I downloaded OilPaintingColor and I couldn’t stop playing it. It’s one of those games that if you enjoy it you enjoy and if you don’t you don’t, and what I mean about that is there is no problem with that app that will make you not enjoy it. There are barely any ads. The pictures are free, or at least I haven’t seen one that wasn’t free. The only problem I noticed is about the hints and helping features. Where they’re located is right by the painting and it is very easy to accidentally use one. I suggest that you should put a feature were if you click it you get asked “are you sure you want to use this feature”. Other than that this is a really fun addictive game.

I was addicted; pictures are beautiful when completed and it is relaxing, thoroughly enjoyable despite the ads in the free version but, apparently unstable. I’m not sure if due to an update or bug crash, etc. but, occasionally OilPaintingColor would freeze, locking the screen upon picture completion ; then, just wouldn’t open a all. I deleted then reinstalled, knowing that I’d lose all that I’d done but, the problems continue, plus some.
I’m happy that this happened prior to purchasing the full app. I’ll save my money and get over my disappointment!
The developer contacted me to report that the problem has been found and fixed so I’ve reinstalled OilPaintingColor with trust. Truth is that I missed it. Its slightly different now in that the next color doesn’t auto select as before, you must manually select, which is fine.
Thank you for the response! 🙂

Last week I got fed up with the content of my old coloring app. So many pictures seemed to be of dark subjects. I ignored this for a long time, but finally got fed up. I went looking for a new app and found this straight off. I am very pleased with it. The pictures are challenging and all content is beautiful. When you get done, even though the work seems like a bunch of unrelated blobs, the result is stunningly beautiful.
Only two things I miss from my old app: 1. In my old app, choosing a color from the palette caused the entire row to shift over so the next color in line was visible and ready to be used. 2. The screen in my old app was more responsive. With this one I sometimes have to zoom in to get a space to respond to touch. Neither of these things are deal breakers. I’ll keep OilPaintingColor for a long time. Very pleased!

Honestly i was skeptical about OilPaintingColor from the ad. I thought premium would be needed to actually enjoy OilPaintingColor, and then... I opened OilPaintingColor and realized it was not! The are TWO new free pictures a day, and only ONE premium, which differs from EVERY OTHER coloring app I tried and have used, (colorfy, sandbox coloring, ect. Keep in mind these apps aren’t necessarily bad)

And the TWO FREE pictures AREN'T EVEN BAD! They’re just as good, maybe more so as the one premium.

They’re also complex, not some crappy simple picture for a seven year old. Also, not all these pictures are complex either! If you’re looking for complex, there’s plenty. If you’re looking for simple, you got simple!

These pictures are really cute and realistic too. I just absolutely adore these pictures, and I keep starting new ones!

The developers also care. They respond too the good and bad reviews of the game, and are working on it.

You will have to note there are some pictures that need an ad to open, but that’s ok. One ad isn’t bad at all, and as I said, there’s plenty of free ones. Eventually, you will run out of free ones, but this is a new app and they don’t have thousands of pictures like some older apps do. You could also choose to watch ONE add to get FOUR hints, which is great.

I just ADORE OilPaintingColor, it’s, it’s amazing. I HIGHLY recommend it!

This is one of my favorite Color By Number apps but I do have a couple of complaints. My first complaint is the number of very pastel colors used in a lot of the pictures. I realize I’m a senior citizen and maybe that’s part of the problem but when I’m looking for a piece that needs colored but I find one and it’s a pastel I’ve already filled, it’s very frustrating searching for the pieces that are left. My second complaint is that so many of the colors look like they’re exactly the same. Are the people that create these pictures paid by the number of colors the picture has? Because often, it seems several of the colors could be combined into one. I’m not an artist so maybe there is a difference but to one of the average, they’re the same.

The gameplay itself is fun, but the experience is ruined by 2 big things.

1. I have never seen an app drain my battery as fast as this one does. This tells me that the developers are probably using some horribly inefficient toolkits to build the software

2. There are far too many interactive ads. And after watching the ads, every time you start playing, this annoying flying envelope covers the right side of the screen offering the ability to pay to eliminate ads. That stupid envelope is more annoying than the ads because you can’t swipe it away and it gets in the way of gameplay, and I can promise the developers that it makes me want to uninstall OilPaintingColor rather than pay. And get real—who in their right mind is going to pay 10 bucks a week for this? A one time purchase I might consider, but a recurring subscription is ludicrous.

Downloaded about 2 weeks ago and finished all the free and ones you had to watch a video paintings in about 8 days. Just to let all know you have to watch 3 to 4 videos weather it was free or had to watch a video to paint. This may irritate some. They need to remove the word “a” since in my understanding that would represent “1” and put an “s” at the end of video. Yesterday they increased the amount of colors (24 to about 128) in the paintings which is great, takes longer to paint. The only 2 issues I have is the amount ads to watch, though some are informative, and the amount of space it is using up on my iPad. It puts a logo and no picture of the paintings. Can’t buy an iPad with more memory since I already have 128GB. I don’t want to clear the paint on the ones I have already painted since some have been moved over to premium and would have to purchase a subscription. Because of the ads I am a bit leery to purchase and the ads won’t really go away. But other than that I enjoy OilPaintingColor .

I have completed almost 600 paintings and loved OilPaintingColor ...then you had to include the useless, pointless FB option (I stopped using FB a long time a go) and change the dynamic of OilPaintingColor with an annoying reminder to choose a color that I wish was an option to disable. I have lost all of the hundreds of completed paintings as your app did not work any longer post FB integration update! The only thing left to do was to uninstall OilPaintingColor , then reinstall...that’s why I gave it only three instead of five stars. I hate FB or others (Google, Twitter...) who collect every digital bit of information and sale it to the highest bidder! By the way, your app crashed on my 12.9 iPad Pro.