Chroma vs pau.

Chroma is an adult coloring book app for people looking to relax through coloring. Its library has thousands of pages, including mandalas, nature-inspired artwork, and inspirational quotes. Users can color freeform, import their own images, and use digital brushes, textures, palettes, and other tools. Buddy Coloring lets friends and family work on the same artwork. The app also offers AI-generated pages and tools to turn photos into coloring pages or pixel art. Artwork can be shared on Pinterest, Facebook, and Instagram, and the iPad app supports Apple Pencil. Chroma is available on Android, iOS, and the web; the website also describes pages for sharing colorist portfolios. Sprite Labs is the App Store developer and seller. The app is free with in-app purchases. Listed options include Coins XS for $0.99, paid once; Chroma Monthly 30 for $6.99 a month; Chroma 3.0 Monthly for $9.99 a month; Chroma Yearly 30 for $34.99 a year; and Chroma 3.0 Yearly for $49.99 a year. Other one-time purchases are listed at 2.99 USD, 5.99 USD, and 29.99 USD.

pau. is a minimalist adult coloring app for iPad, with hand-drawn pages, freeform coloring, and optional Apple Pencil support. Its free plan provides Fill, Soft Round, Fineliner, Marker, undo and redo, stroke adjustments, an eyedropper, and recent colors. Premium adds watercolor, oil, gouache, pastel, and chalk brushes, plus Smudge. It also unlocks reusable custom palettes, palettes made from photos, the full page library, and exports without the pau. mark. The maker says about four new hand-drawn pages arrive each Friday. Progress saves automatically on the iPad, and downloaded pages remain usable offline. Finished images and automatic time-lapse videos can be saved. The maker says there are no accounts, ads, or cross-app tracking; its policy describes pseudonymous events through TelemetryDeck and diagnostics through Sentry. An eligible non-subscriber can preview Premium brushes and Smudge once for 72 hours. The app requires iPadOS 18.6 or later.