Brushrage - Miniature Painting

Hendarion

About this app

Brushrage is aimed at miniature and model painters to organise and track their model collection, projects, progress, paints used and colours used or in possession.

Features of the phone version:
- Tracks projects and colour palettes with exact timers and activity reminders
- Tracks your collection and its progress
- Comes with a paint library of 15.000+ paints
- Includes a bulk-barcode-scanner
- Helps finding similar paints
- Create paint-sets, palettes and How-To's
- Wishlist and Inventory
- Custom paint mixing backed by a highly accurate mathematical model far beyond plain RGB-mixing
- Finds paints from photos and store them as references
- Can share palettes to social media
- Gives insights with statistics and summaries

---- Supplied Paint Ranges ----

• Abteilung 502
• AK Interactive
• Alclad II
• AMMO by Mig
• Andrea
• Badger Minitaire
• Citadel / Forge World
• Coat d'arms
• Colour Forge
• Creatix
• Creature Caster
• Cuttlefish Colors
• Daler Rowney
• Darkstar Molten Metals
• Forge World
• Formula P3
• Gaia
• Gamblin
• Gamescraft
• Golden
• GreenStuffWorld
• Hataka Hobby
• Hera Models
• Huge Miniatures
• Humbrol
• Instar
• Kimera
• LifeColor
• Liquitex
• MiniaturePaints
• Mission Models
• Molotow
• Montana
• Monument Hobbies
• Mr. Hobby
• Nocturna Models
• Reaper
• Revell
• Royal Talens
• Scale 75
• Schmincke
• SMS
• Tamiya
• Testors
• TheArmyPainter
• Turbo Dork
• TTCombat
• Vallejo
• WarColours
• Wargames Foundry
• Williamsburg
• Winsor & Newton

Features of the Wear OS version:
You can inspect your project timers, navigate through your projects and start of stop timers and get reminded of active timers. It requires the phone version to create and manage your data.

---- Disclaimer on used permissions ----

The app uses the following permissions for the following purposes. The app will not access your photos or camera or upload any of your data without your own intentional actions or without visual feedback or your consent.

• Storage & photos (optional): The app allows picking photos from your phone to attach to your projects
• Camera and video (optional): The app allows to attach photos in various places (for example projects, How-Tos, comments, paints, Paint-Sets, Swatches/Gallery) and also has a Barcode-Scanner which uses the video-mode of the camera.
• Internet and download: The app has various online-features like downloading How-Tos, Paint-Sets, making online-backup (Server or Google Drive) of your data and downloading images from the web or from Instagram or to perform an anonymous read-only version-check.
• Preventing stand-by: While using the barcode-scanner, the app prevents the phone from going into stand-by, so you can keep scanning without the screen getting locked automatically.
• Controlling vibration: The app has optional reminders about active timers or to make you go paint. These reminders may vibrate if you want to.
• Notifications: See above. All notifications are optional and can be disabled in the settings.

Ratings and reviews

Be prepared to take some time learning how to navigate and work with the app, but it has been a fantastic tool for tracking and organizing miniature collections and projects in progress. You will also need to dedicate a fair bit of time to getting everything set up with your projects and things like your current collection of owned paints. It is well worth doing, however. It can also give (optional) daily push notifications to bug you if you haven't painted that day which I actually like.

I'm only a couple of days into this gem, but I'm VERY impressed. It is not intuitive to me, but the help section solved most of my issues (RTFM). I probably will only use a fraction of it's capabilities, but that's how great software often is. I just want to say that this thing is written to a standard I strove for when I was still coding, Very impressive. One thing I can't figure out, though, is how to delete a swatch I put in while experimenting... Not taking any stars off for that though.

Very nice to be able to track time on your projects, remember what paints you used, take progress photos etc. Not an essential app, but definitely one that adds just a bit more to your own time management and sense of progression in the hobby. Edit: became a non doofus, and figured out some of the issues I was having. No more complaints here.

What's new

● Streamed palettes can be forced to always use light-theme via Settings

Previously:
● Added pink themes by request
● Library Update (Alclad II, AK, AMMO, Badger, Citadel, Gaia, GreenStuffWorld, Instar, Kimera, Mr. Hobby, Molotow, Pro Acryl, Schmincke, TheArmyPainter, W&N)
● Using dense font on long product descriptions to prevent cut-offs
● Added a basic Wear OS companion app to start/stop your timers