# HEAVYPAINT Classic

> Graphic Painting App

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1469848546](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1469848546)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1469848546`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** HEAVYPOLY, Inc.
- **Category:** Graphics & Design
- **Rating:** 4.10 / 5 (179 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.7.73
- **Last updated:** 2024-09-06
- **First published:** 2019-06-25
- **Size:** 51 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-24
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/heavypaint-classic/id1469848546)
- **Website:** [http://www.heavypaint.com](http://www.heavypaint.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.heavypoly.com/heavypaint-privacy-policy](http://www.heavypoly.com/heavypaint-privacy-policy)

## Description

HEAVYPAINT Classic is a simple, secretly powerful painting app designed to keep your focus on pure colors and shapes with a streamlined interface. It's ideal for plein air painting, color notes, sketches, and studies.

Built with enhancements like improved smudge and blur, plus essential tools such as layers, masking, erase, and clipping, the app offers a practical workflow. A 30-day trial with full functionality lets you explore its capabilities.

## Rankings

- #114,122 — Overall

## Review summary

HEAVYPAINT Classic is loved for its unique brushes, creative freedom, and beginner-friendly approach, especially for non-traditional drawing. However, licensing changes, stability issues, and a buggy UI undermine the experience, with concerns about developer support and ongoing maintenance. Overall it offers strong creative potential but reliability and pricing practices are major drawbacks.

### Pros

- Unique brushes and tools with a fun, experimental workflow (e.g., the fan gradient tool) that encourages a different approach to drawing
- Fun to use and motivates creative exploration; good for artists transitioning from traditional to digital
- Simple, approachable UX that helps beginners and supports learning color and basic painting concepts
- Allows unpredictable markmaking not easily replicated in other apps, offering strong creative potential

### Cons

- Licensing and pricing issues after purchase (permanent license followed by demands to pay again; changes to subscription models)
- Frequent crashes and data loss; autosave is unreliable
- Buggy, inconsistent UI/UX and updates that can break workflow or make importing/exporting harder
- Perceived lack of ongoing support or development, with concerns about abandonment of the mobile/desktop versions

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1469848546)