Press kit

Painting Desk is a tracker for miniature painters, built for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro.

Every model a painter owns goes on the shelf: the backlog, the pile of shame, all of it, sorted by stage from Sprue to Done. The few they're painting now go on the desk, where each kit counts the days it has sat there. A kit moves to its next stage in two taps, and Painting Desk offers to take a photo on the way, stamped with that stage. Finished kits land on the Showcase with their best photos.

The paint rack holds every pot they own, from a catalogue of over 4,700 paints across ten brands. Paints go on by ticking them off brand by brand, by searching, from a spreadsheet, or on iPhone and iPad by scanning the pots with the camera. Each pot shows how much is left, and Painting Desk says when the last one is running low.

The colour tools start from a paint or a colour picked from a photo. Ramps shift in hue as well as lightness, cooler in the shadows and warmer in the highlights, and every step, harmony and substitute is a real paint, with how close it is and the nearest pot already on the rack. Recipes keep the colours, mixes and notes that worked, show which paints are missing before a session starts, and keep the version a finished kit was painted with.

An optional painting clock times sessions at the desk and runs as a Live Activity; it never starts on its own. Stats come free from the dates each kit changed stage: models finished each month, days in each stage, and the kit that has stalled longest.

There's no account, no server, no adverts and no analytics. Everything stays on the painter's devices and syncs through their own iCloud, and paints, kits and the whole collection can be exported at any time.