Brushrage

I never have before cared about an app so much to rate it, but BrushRage has been the best thing to elevate my hobbying in such a long time! My partner and I own many 40K armies and I am the painter so this has helped me track the progress of everything we own. On top of that, I have started doing commission work and this app has been lifesaver in tracking the time for each project! I have also scanned my entire paint collection into the app easily with the barcode so I can track palettes!

I’ve never left a review for an app before, but I felt the need after using this app for so many hours and weeks of painting. If you’re interested in taking your painting seriously I’d consider this a must have. The ability to track your painting time for each session of every project and provide organized notes and photos for each individual step is an incredible tool by itself, not to mention the ability to keep a catalogue on all the paints you own or search for equivalent paints to those others may be using. Before this app I had to use three separate apps to accomplish those things. There’s so many tools and uses within this app and I probably don’t even use a quarter of them, but even so I love it and use it all the time. The only warning I’d provide is if you aren’t a little bit tech savvy you may need some time orienting yourself on the usage of each tool and figuring out just how in-depth each tool goes. But that just goes to show how much value you can get out of the app if you spend a little time fiddling with all of its interfaces. Once again, highly recommended for any budding miniature painter, specifically those who want to take organized notes on their own projects and progression or even simply keep track of how much time they spend painting. Cheers!

Overall for an app that’s free it isn’t bad. However, any attempt to go to the collections tab immediately crashes the app. Also it appears to require google drive for backups so doesn’t use local iPhone storage for app data and iCloud backup automatically which would be a HUGE issue for me if I really dove in and used it for project management. The color pickers are not as good as paintrack app, and though the ui is slightly easier to add a collection of paint to via the library, overall it’s a poor UI design and needs work. I’ll keep it in mind but for now the app needs stability and usability work and needs to adopt native iPhone data security features before I use it.