Love it, but it has small issues.
Thu Oct 31 2019 CghjfgvOk, so don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love this app. It is a great way to pass time and calm stress. I have a few small complaints though. First of all, this thing drains my battery so fast that I can’t feel comfortable using it unless I have a reliable power source. I use it for 20 minutes and I go from 98% to 70% on a good day. It also heats my phone up really easily which isn’t that big of a deal but probably isn’t ideal. My second complaint is the addition of pop up adds. I could tolerate the adds playing before and after puzzles, but was it really necessary to make them start popping up while I’m coloring it? It just interrupts my experience and makes me want to play a different game. One thing I love is getting into a rhythm and being able to play automatically without much thought, and the pop up adds just ruin that because it forces me to break my concentration. As a final little criticism, the pixel count for the art made from personal pictures is terrible. They used to be pretty high and then they were changed to such a low pixel count that it’s not very useful anymore. In conclusion, the battery problem could use some improvement (though I can imagine that it isn’t an easy fix) and the adds need to be kept out of the puzzles while users are coloring. I would recommend this app to anyone who needs stress relief and is willing sacrifice their battery charge.
Great game but has issues
Wed Nov 25 2020 i luv queen gloryMy biggest problem is the freezing. This game will completely freeze up, sometimes I can’t even get back into the game if I restart it. I will have to power my phone all the way off sometimes. My second issue is the picture selection. I wish there was a way to filters by pixel count and also that there was a way to sort the pictures such as people, animals, flowers, etc. and then using the pixel filter you can find your perfect picture. I really like doing the high pixel count bird/animal ones, but I have to scroll for a really long time to find new ones. Maybe a way to go straight to the bottom? Third is the feature where I can see the pixels I did the wrong color. They sometimes make it very hard to find the square in looking for because they blend it. I think being able to remove them or at least lighten the opacity would be great. I also would like a way to remove the buttons at the top while coloring, because they get in the way and sometimes I accidentally click finish and have to watch two ads to get back into my picture. The new pop-up ads are also annoying, because they sometimes freeze my game too. This game has many upsides though. It has an amazing selection of pictures, is pretty easy to use and has lots of bonus pictures to get. I love collecting stuff so whenever I finish a book and get the high pixel count picture I am very pleased. If you fixed the issues I talked about this game would definitely be a five star for me!
here to complain about what everyone else is
Fri Apr 14 2023 WeegieBI have been playing this game for at least 5 years now and have recently gotten my friends hooked on it too. Besides the app using so much battery, i’ve always had a good time while playing. After this new update, I’m stressed while playing because I don’t know when I’m going to get an ad and ruin my concentration. Just the other day i was coloring the last picture of the coral reef booklet and there was a large chunk of one color that i was working on. Instead of waiting for me to finish the color, I was interrupted midway through for an ad. The frequency of the ads is about the same as it was before the update, but it’s just very nerve wracking to not know when they are coming anymore. It used to be when you finished however many colors, you would get an ad, but now it seems very random. I’ve noticed most of the recent reviews are also complaining about this, so maybe you guys should listen to your consumer base before you lose money and change it back to how it was before this update. Another suggestion that I have for the game is a search bar. It would be so much easier to find things that I want to color than scrolling through the thousands of random pictures in the main menu. Each image could be tagged “spring”, “flower”, “easter”, “red”, “yellow”, etc. to make it easier for players to find pictures to color. Other than these two things the game would be perfect.
Enjoyable, but ads are seriously an issue
Tue Apr 26 2022 scrappypersonI really like this app. Personally, I stick to creating my own images, so I don’t really have anything to say about the images they have available. I stumbled onto the most recent Garden event by accident and that was really fun, so I hope they continue to create those in the future! The ads are a huge issue though. Personally, I don’t really mind the ads that pop up after you finish a color or when you hit the exit button, because they usually only happen every few colors and there’s a decent gap between them. I can see how this might be an issue when coloring pictures with fewer pixels, though, so keep that in mind! The banner ads that play at the bottom of the screen are the issue. Every time the ad switches, I get at least a 30 second freeze to the game where I can’t color in pixels or move the screen. Sometimes this lasts even longer if the ad has moving text or animated graphics. I’ve had the game freeze up for several minutes with these ads. Playing in airplane mode does get rid of the ads, but this isn’t always viable when I’m waiting on replies for emails or text messages for work. I would love it if they could change the ads so that the game no longer freezes, or implement a one time charge for an ad free version instead of the $15 a month subscription they advertise. Overall, it’s a good coloring app if you’re willing to overlook the issues with the ads.
Fun app, don’t like the latest update
Thu May 31 2018 Annica13I do like this app a lot. It is very relaxing and almost zen-like to color the pictures. And I love that there are so many pictures to choose from and always more being added. BUT . . . the ads are pretty annoying. Mostly because there are so many. I get 1 every time I open a picture, whether it is marked Premium or not (so seriously, what is the difference between them?) and 1 every time I finish. Plus every time I just want to go back to the main menu, and then when I accidentally hit the done button in the middle of coloring, which is too easy to do. So if I do a bunch of simple ones in a row, I am watching just ad after ad. I understand you have to make money, but a minimum amount of time between ads would be great. And if you had a 1 time charge to get rid of ads, I would pay it in a heartbeat. I refuse to pay monthly subscriptions for any app.
But my biggest complaint right now is about the latest update. Why did you change the way the pixels and the numbers look? I don’t like it at all! I miss the dark, thick lines between the cells, and just something about the way the colors are applied now. It’s just not as satisfying anymore. Please, please, please at least give us a menu option that allows us to pick which look we want. Also, an option to have it not color the cells I accidentally hit in error would be great too. It is distracting and bothers me for some reason.
Overall, good app that would be great with a few updates.
I love it But it could be better
Fri Feb 09 2024 CrystalJCBFor those of us who don’t like to get behind and I am way way way way behind… So when I scroll all the way down to work up it starts me over you know how irritating that is… I’ve already sent in a request for this so I’m gonna do it again you keep coming up with these little folders for these cool little stuff which I love. Don’t give me wrong I love your app but it would be 10 times better or 100 times better if you guys would please do a separate folder where when we click it then you have these years to pick and then you pick like 2000 or 2015 or whatever andWhat will pop up will be the pictures associated with that year that way we can color what we missed that would be awesome then we don’t have to scroll for 30 minutes try to get to wherever it is that we left off please do this it will be wonderful and I think it will be just less irritating for those of us who do not like to get behind. I want to say one more thing that when I was talking about like when you’re scrolling down to get down to the very first one that you ever had I guess when I first watched this app so when you’re coloring and then you get more picture so you can go back to where you were sometimes it will sit there and think a minute and then it starts you back at the top that’s what I was talking about while ago that’s irritating you spent all that time getting down there and so anyways yeah there’s a lot of catching up to Forest people that are behind
Suggestions
Sat Apr 07 2018 pheonixpenguinI’ve devoted well over 100 hours to this app and colored every picture (along with about as many of my own photos.) I figured with this much time spent on it, I should go ahead and sign up for the premium subscription. I’ve been very happy so far but do have a few criticisms/ suggestions.
First, increase the max resolution of the images you can make. I noticed that at some point, you decreased the highest difficulty setting to be fewer pixels. One thing I really love about this app is finding other images of pixel art online and coloring them in, but it doesn’t work if I can’t match the resolution of the original pixel art image. I’m much more limited now with the reduced difficulty range.
Second, don’t show created images in the create an image tab. While I definitely want to be able to access images that I’ve previously created, it (understandably) takes a while to load that page for me and I don’t need to see it every time I go to create a new image.
Third, add a limit to the number of previously created images that are saved and, once you’ve reached that limit, automatically delete the oldest image when you create a new one (unless you favorite an image or something.)
Other than that, I love this app and, while I do think the price is steep and am looking forward to a different payment model, I don’t regret spending the almost $20 a month on it!
Best game I ever had, and here are somethings you should know before downloading this game!
Fri Mar 24 2023 ngyufbhuI love this game it is so fun, and I can never stop playing it! That’s why I rated this a five star it actually should deserve more stars! Anyways these are somethings you should know before you download this game. #1 there is no search bar so you can’t search for what you want to draw. which I really think needs to get fixed. #2 there are books that have a lot of drawings in them, and they are based on things like fruit, furniture,and other stuff + I just got done with the fruit one and trust me the fruit one you should try first. #3 there ads aren’t even that bad there actually really helpful and interesting! Thanks to the ads I have gotten 7 fun and interesting games! #4 you can even draw yourself! All you have to do is take a picture of you, and not only yourself you can take a picture of anything and draw it! #5 once you get done with your drawing you can change the shape of the squares! Here is an example you can make it an x, a star, and lots more! I could go on and but I don’t want you to keep reading this for a long time. So can you please add a search bar to search for what you want to draw thanks. All in all this is the best things I have before you get the game! Bye🙃
Before the update I’d have given 5 stars
Sat Jun 02 2018 littlegirligirlI really liked the previous version better. This new update I’ve had for about a week. There are a few differences in the appearance of the pictures while painting by number that change the feel of the app. For example, the shades of the boxes for the different numbers isn’t as differentiated as it used to be. The boxes looked a little different and they seemed less... rigid? Modern? I’m not sure the word to use but it’s less relaxing now. Playing mostly at night after I put my kids to bed, I would turn off highlight cell, zoom out on my large screened iPhone and and click away until I was able to fall asleep. I was ADDICTED and finished pictures as they were added. The intricate ones of paintings, models/people and pretty cupcakes are always my favorite. Even my children enjoy it, I purchased them their own version on our family tablet so as to not deal with ads. But this update, I’m not liking it. And I don’t think I’ve gotten new pictures since the day after the update, where I believe it used to be updated daily or at least every couple of days.
Thank you for providing so many free pictures. And I’m glad to see that we can watch videos to unlock pictures. I appreciate that, as it was an unavailable feature for a while. I also greatly enjoy I can take a picture with my camera or upload from my photos saved on my phone. Pictures with 25+ numbers are most enjoyable.
Used to be great
Fri Feb 19 2021 Melana :)I used to love this app so much, and it used to be such a fun way to easy my anxiety and color. The pictures were beautiful, I loved that you could create your own, the 3D ones and books were a nice touch, and everything was great.
But I soon devolved a big problem with the app: There were WAY too many crashes. It would freeze up ALL THE TIME! I can’t color one picture without it crashing at least five times, and I don’t color big pictures anymore because of it. Sometimes it will freeze for a few seconds, others for such a long time where even restarting the entire iPad doesn’t work. I wish they would take care of this problem, te app just isn’t fun anymore.
That’s not the only reason, there are lots of other problems as well. The update made the app look so different, and Irish there was a setting to choose which type of way we wanted to make the app look.
Another annoying this is that when you color the wrong space, it faintly colors the blank one, and it’s SO ANNOYING. It’s completely unsatisfying, it bothers me, and makes me miss lots of areas because of it. I wish there was a setting to change that.
One more problem is the ads. There are SO MANY of them, one after you color a picture, one before, and the ones WHILE you color the picture. Those are way to easy to click on. I know that’s probably the point, but it’s getting ridiculous.
