Miniature Painter Pro App Helps Hobbyists Catalog Paints and Match Colors

Developer Rick Fleuren has been quietly building one of the most practically useful tools in the hobby: Miniature Painter Pro, a free app that lets you compare paints across brands, mix colors with a built-in paint mixer, store palettes for later use, and access well over 2,500 paints from 10+ major brands.

The app covers all your miniature painting needs, from an advanced color picker and cross-brand paint comparison to a paint mixer and palette storage with notes. Pro users gained a significant workflow upgrade in version 1.0.183 last August, when the update allowed them to bring their own custom paints into the mixing screen. Two months later, version 1.0.185 delivered a greatly improved mixing screen across the board.

The most recent update, version 1.0.190, posted on February 17, 2026, added support for multiple images, improved themes, and new paint ranges. It is the most feature-complete release to date, and the version reflected in screenshots currently circulating across app listing pages.

The version history reads like a running index of which paint brands have grown significant enough for the hobby community to demand catalog coverage. Duncan Rhodes' Two Thin Coats range, developed from the ground up with professional paint chemists, was added in version 1.0.158 in July 2024. TurboDork and missing Monument paints followed in version 1.0.171 that November. Version 1.0.177 in March 2025 brought in Mr Paint and Mission Models ranges, and a second pass for Monument paints landed again in version 1.0.182 the following July.

The catalog breadth reflects how fragmented the paint market has become. Having Citadel, Vallejo, Army Painter, Monument, TurboDork, Mr Paint, Mission Models, Two Thin Coats, and two major Brazilian brands all searchable and cross-comparable in a single app removes one of the most persistent friction points for painters who have spread their collections across multiple ranges.

The app was directly inspired by the hard work of FauxHammer.com, the well-regarded hobby review and guide site, a lineage that shows in how methodically Fleuren has approached paint data coverage. FauxHammer's influence is credited explicitly in the app's own description, which gives the catalog a credibility anchor that generic paint apps tend to lack.

The developer does not collect any data from this app, a detail worth noting given how many free utility apps monetize through data collection. The app is available on both Android and iOS, carries a 4-out-of-5-star user rating, and remains free to download. For any painter tired of flipping between manufacturer websites to chase a color match, that combination is hard to argue with.