ColorPlanet® is a digital paint-by-number game for adults, featuring an oil-painting texture engine on iOS and Android.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Sentiment
4.6
259k reviews
Nemesis
Paint by Number Coloring Game
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users seek a meditative, low-friction creative outlet to relieve daily stress, which the app serves through its realistic canvas-rendering mechanic.
For Adults seeking stress relief and creative outlets through casual digital coloring games.
What does it look like?
Key features
Visual rendering layer that applies canvas, water, and oil painting textures to color-by-number pages.
New coloring pages added to the library every day.
Visual cues and number-to-color mapping that highlights placement areas.
How much does it cost?
Ad-supported freemium model using in-app purchases to monetize a large user base.
Velocity
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With the last update occurring 306 days ago, the app has entered a state of inactivity. The development history shows a long-term trend of infrequent, minor maintenance patches rather than substantive feature development. There is no evidence of live operations or recent engagement-focused updates, and the current cadence falls well below the threshold for active support.
Who built it?
Games Vessel Pte
4 apps tracked · Games
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ColorPlanet® Paint by Number
ColorPlanet® Jigsaw PuzzleUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans mixed. Users appreciate the core coloring mechanic provides a relaxing and meditative experience that keeps users engaged long-term and the ability to import and digitize personal photos for coloring adds a unique layer of personalization, but report frequent app freezing and crashing during active coloring sessions disrupts the relaxing user experience.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- The core coloring mechanic provides a relaxing and meditative experience that keeps users engaged long-term
- The ability to import and digitize personal photos for coloring adds a unique layer of personalization
- High-quality art selections and diverse categories keep the visual experience fresh for dedicated daily users
- Frequent app freezing and crashing during active coloring sessions disrupts the relaxing user experience
97 of 108 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Mixed overall
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Competitive landscape for ColorPlanet® Oil Painting game
How's the Games market?
ColorPlanet® maintains a presence in the casual gaming charts, ranking #96-191 in Grossing across multiple international casual game categories. The lack of recent updates suggests a maintenance-mode posture that risks losing ground to more active competitors.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Oakever Games
This app maintains high-frequency release cycles and a massive user base, directly competing for the same oil-painting and number-coloring audience.
- Maintains a high-velocity release cadence of 8 updates in six months to keep content fresh
- Focuses on a broad library of coloring books that directly overlaps with our thematic niche
- Leverages a mature monetization model that balances ad-supported play with premium content access
Oil Painting Color by NumbersContender
Pixel Art － Color by NumberContender
Happy Color by Numbers GameContenderUnlock the head-to-head verdict: where this rival wins, and where it loses.
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Key takeaways for ColorPlanet® Oil Painting game
Where is it heading?
Casual coloring traffic is consolidating around high-frequency content providers, leaving ColorPlanet® exposed due to a 10-month development silence [1, 2]. Without a return to active feature investment, the current negative sentiment trend will likely accelerate as long-term users migrate to rivals with more frequent content refreshes.
- The 10-month development silence prevents content refreshes, which accelerates churn among long-term subscribers who feel their investment is ignored [1, 2].
- Frequent crashes during active coloring sessions erode the meditative value proposition, which compounds the rating drag already visible on both platforms.
The SWOT
- Proprietary oil-painting engine differentiates from flat-color rivals
- Localized pricing in high-ARPU markets
Next best moves
Audit crash logs for zooming and color-picking because these are the top-reported stability complaints → stabilize session retention.
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's #191 grossing rank is a liability, not an asset…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Horizontal screen orientation (available in rivals but missing here)
Since the last report: Development inactivity has extended to 10 months, cementing a maintenance-mode state that continues to erode user sentiment through unresolved session crashes. The primary shift in user feedback is a move toward demanding one-time purchase options to bypass the current ad-heavy freemium model.
Bottom line
The proprietary oil-painting engine retains core users, but the 10-month development silence leaves the app vulnerable to churn [1, 2]. Stabilizing the core session loop is the only way to prevent further erosion of the user base.
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Is ColorPlanet® suitable for adults looking for stress relief?
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