The 9 Best Color by Number Apps for Android – MUO – MakeUseOf

Adult painting apps are a great way to relax and unwind. Here are the best paint by number apps you can get on Android.
Coloring books are a popular hobby among kids. Coloring is a healthy activity—it eases the mind and acts as a stress reliever.
This activity is not just for kids, though. You can also enjoy digital coloring on your phone without requiring physical books and coloring equipment.
You'll find some excellent color or paint by number apps on Google Play that assign a number to each color and mark the places where you should apply that number. These apps provide intuitive features to help you explore your creativity.
So, here are nine of the best color by number apps you can enjoy on your Android phone.
ColorPlanet is a paint-by-number app for adults. It has a vast collection of over 5000 coloring pages, so you never run out of options. You can choose designs from many categories such as flowers, people, animals, buildings, cartoons, scenery, and food.
The app provides helpful hints to help you throughout the activity. You can also check recent artworks you worked on, the work in progress, and the ones you have completed.
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ColorPlanet has some paid features as well. With its premium version, you can remove ads from the app and get unlimited hints to help you with complex designs. The app is available for offline painting in its premium version.
Download: ColorPlanet (Free, in-app purchases available)
Paint by Number is an art drawing app for coloring the artworks of your choice. It contains multiple design categories such as animals, flowers, places, and characters.
The app has a famous paintings section where you can color various famous artworks. Inside the Explore menu, you can check out the top images of the year.
You'll have to pay for some of the artwork and images, but the app also gives you daily reward points to unlock premium paintings.
Paint by Number has a great feature called musical pictures that allows you to color dynamic musical images with background music. The premium version offers an ad-free experience with unlimited hints and removes watermarks.
Download: Paint by Number (Free, in-app purchases available)
Coloring Book is another color by number app with tons of features. It provides hints to people with no coloring experience and offers a unique artwork for coloring every day to keep your daily streak going.
You can check for various popular animations, artist packs, and top-of-the-year artworks from the Discover menu. The app keeps track of your work in progress and completed projects.
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Coloring Book has some features that you can unlock by watching ads. It also allows you to choose from the world's most famous paintings, including the Mona Lisa, Starry Night, The Last Supper, and many more.
Download: Coloring Book (Free)
Happy Color offers a great variety of creative designs in almost 15 categories, including hobbies, holidays, horoscopes, people, places, and many more. It also has three special categories called Blend, Rare, and Mystery.
You can earn a unique artwork through the daily reward by regularly checking the app. It can automatically pick suitable colors for your art, you just have to fill in the correspondent number area.
The free version of Happy Color has ads that can be removed by subscribing to a premium version. All in-app features are free of charge.
Download: Happy Color (Free, in-app purchases available)
Colorscapes is a coloring app that provides a vast collection of images and sketches to color. It has 33 categories with thousands of different designs. You can also check the Editors' Choice content from the gallery.
It also recommends festive designs, including artworks related to Independence Day, Halloween, Easter, and many others.
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You can view other artists' work from their profiles. The app keeps track of your progress and allows you to join the community to share your artwork.
Through its yearly and monthly paid versions, you can access all the pictures, unlimited hints, and enjoy an ad-free experience. Note that some paintings labeled as VIP are paid for and can only be availed through subscription.
Download: Colorscapes (Free, in-app purchases available)
Tap Color Pro is another coloring book app with a massive number of coloring pages. It provides a paint by number feature to easily color any image with just a few taps. It has numerous categories to search for a picture of your choice.
You can go on a daily streak by participating in daily challenges and can save the images you like for later use. The app will save your progress automatically under your profile.
Tap Color Pro also has animated images that require you to watch an ad to unlock. You can also join the Facebook community to connect with other artists using this app. Signing in through Facebook gives you free hints too.
Download: Tap Color Pro (Free, in-app purchases available)
Art Number Coloring is a minimal painting app with a color by number feature. It has various categories to choose from, like plants, animals, and many more. The app also offers shading effects along with hint layer flashing.
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Art Number Coloring stores your progress and projects under the My Works section. It also supports offline coloring mode. You can simply download the picture you want to use and color it offline.
All coloring pages and features offered by this app are free. You can share your work with one tap on social media accounts. Its premium version is ad-free.
Download: Art Number Coloring (Free, in-app purchases available)br />
No.Pix is a color by number app focused on pixel art for both adults and kids. It is unique because it allows coloring images by pixels. The app supports offline mode, so an internet connection is not necessary.
Like some other apps on this list, this app also has a daily quest feature to build up your streak. It offers tons of coloring pages and categories for you to discover. In addition to built-in designs, you can also create custom artwork from your gallery images.
No.Pix offers some features in its premium version only. The paid version provides video pictures as well as watermark removal.
Download: No.Pix (Free, in-app purchases available)
As the name suggests, Pixel Art is a color by number app for pixel art lovers. It has many 2D and 3D artworks in store for you and you can create your own pixel art as well.
The app has a regularly updated library that shows seasonal and occasional designs on the top. You can also pixelate your own photos with Pixel Art Camera. Just upload any picture and prepare it for pixel coloring by adjusting the difficulty.
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Note that some designs are locked and can only be accessed by subscribing to the premium version. If you enjoy the free version, you can access all the app content with the in-app purchase.
Download: Pixel Art (Free, in-app purchases available)
Color by number apps help you get away from the troubles of life and enjoy a fun activity for a while. These apps can be good stress relievers.
The apps mentioned above are for different categories of interest, such as simple images, historical paintings, pixel art, and custom pictures. These apps are handpicked from dozens of coloring apps available on Google Play.
If you are not down with the idea of coloring by number, check out these simple coloring apps for Android.
Ali has been a tech enthusiast since 2005. He is a power user of Android, Linux, and Windows. He has an Advanced Diploma in Business Management from London, UK, and is an English Literature graduate from Punjab University, Pakistan.
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