Burridge Color Wheel is a paid educational app for iOS that provides color theory tools and painting instruction for fine artists.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#52
Education · paid
Sentiment
3.6
8 reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this app to access Robert Burridge’s specific color-mixing methodology, which serves as a professional studio resource for building painting palettes.
For Fine artists and painters seeking professional guidance on color theory and studio techniques.
What does it look like?
Key features
Interactive color selection tool providing specific color combinations for painting projects. Core utility justifying the $9.99 upfront purchase price.
Reference guide mapping color combinations across different paint manufacturers. Adds utility value for professional painters, reinforcing the app as a necessary studio resource.
Integrated samples and instructions for applying color theory to painting goals. Acts as a bridge to the developer's paid workshop and coaching services.
How much does it cost?
Paid model with a one-time $9.99 fee, positioning the app as a professional studio tool rather than a consumer subscription service.
Velocity
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Burridge Color Wheel has been inactive for 247 days, placing it firmly in the zombie category. Development has effectively ceased, as there have been no updates since the late 2025 release. The app's history shows a significant gap in activity, with no signs of ongoing maintenance or feature development.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Fresh user feedback skews mixed. Users appreciate creative teaching methods allow students to build painting skills without relying on copying others and color comparison charts provide useful utility for artists building interesting painting color palettes.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Creative teaching methods allow students to build painting skills without relying on copying others
- Color comparison charts provide useful utility for artists building interesting painting color palettes
- High price point creates significant friction for users who find the feature set too limited
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Competitive landscape for Burridge Color Wheel
How's the Education market?
Burridge Color Wheel holds a #52 Paid rank in the US Education category. The $9.99 price point positions it as a premium studio tool, though the lack of updates since 2025 limits its ability to compete with high-velocity creative suites.
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Key takeaways for Burridge Color Wheel
Where is it heading?
The digital painting market is consolidating around high-velocity suites that offer frequent feature updates and cross-platform sync. Burridge Color Wheel’s maintenance-mode status leaves it exposed to churn as users migrate to tools that offer more comprehensive studio workflows.
- The lack of updates since 2025 erodes the app's competitive standing against frequently updated rivals, leading to increased user frustration regarding value.
The SWOT
- Artist-led guidance provides a unique value proposition for students of Robert Burridge’s specific painting style.
- Localized content or expanded color-mixing labels could address the primary complaint regarding feature depth.
Next best moves
Ship missing outer ring labels for color mixes because it is the top-requested feature in reviews → increase perceived value.
The counter-intuitive read
The app's "maintenance-mode" status is a strategic choice…
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Cross-platform synchronization (available in Sketchbook® but absent here) +1
Bottom line
Burridge Color Wheel provides a specialized utility for fans of Robert Burridge's teaching, but the lack of updates since 2025 and the $9.99 price point create a value gap. The PM should prioritize adding the requested color-wheel labels to defend the current user base.
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Is Burridge Color Wheel worth the $9.99 price?
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Does the app receive regular updates?
What is a free alternative for color mixing?
Sources
- [1] App Store, source
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