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About this game
Mix the colour. Bring the painting back.
A missing shade becomes a small puzzle. Your mixture becomes part of the painting.
- Mix: tap pigments into the bowl and adjust their amounts.
- Match: press MIX, compare your shade with the target, and follow lighter, darker, warmer or cooler hints.
- Restore: paint the numbered areas and watch the picture return, colour by colour.
Take your time. There are no paid hints or retries, and no ads during puzzles.
Watch the gameplay trailer Pick a colour, mix it, then paint it back. The trailer uses recorded simulator gameplay with automated moves; longer steps are sped up and labelled. Captions and sound are added. The featured painting requires Tintsmith Complete.
A small studio with plenty to explore
- Journey: 240 colour-matching plates across six acts. New pigments arrive with stories from art history.
- Paintings: three short lessons and twelve detailed painted interpretations. Restore their colours and replay the transformation as a time-lapse.
- Atelier: experiment freely, adjust pigment proportions, name your mixtures and keep them in your collection.
- Colour studies: discover surprising combinations through guided comparisons.
- Daily Salon and Masters: return for a daily trio or explore fifty five-colour palettes and earn studio themes. Salon opponents are simulated apprentices, not live players.
Free to start, with a one-time full unlock Begin with the Cave's 40 Journey plates, a sampler of the next act, three painting lessons, The Lantern Tide painting, the daily Salon and selected studio activities. More rooms open as you play.
Optional Tintsmith Complete permanently unlocks the remaining gameplay and removes every ad and ad offer. Free play has occasional ads between Journey plates and an optional rewarded ad for 30 minutes of active play without ads. No banners or ads during puzzles. No subscriptions, energy systems, paid hints or paid retries. Optional Patron support adds two studio themes.
Available now on iPhone and iPad. Download Tintsmith on the App Store
Tintsmith uses 21 simulated pigments with an authored mixing model, not measured physical paints. Its paintings are the studio's own interpretations inspired by art history, including AI-assisted artwork; they are not museum scans. The game is in English. Some content shown in screenshots requires Tintsmith Complete.
Which part feels most satisfying to you: finding the exact shade, or watching the painting return?
Information
- Status
- Released
- Release
- November2026
- Art style
- Vector, Minimalist
- Platforms
- iOS
- Price
- Freeads · in app purchase
- Players
- Single player
- Age rating
- 13+
Tags
AI disclosure
AI tools assisted coding, debugging, writing, marketing preparation and the creation and refinement of the painted artwork. The game also includes vector drawings. Pigment mixing and puzzle evaluation run locally using authored rules; gameplay does not generate images or call a generative AI service.
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Trailer & screenshots
About this game
Mix the colour. Bring the painting back.
A missing shade becomes a small puzzle. Your mixture becomes part of the painting.
- Mix: tap pigments into the bowl and adjust their amounts.
- Match: press MIX, compare your shade with the target, and follow lighter, darker, warmer or cooler hints.
- Restore: paint the numbered areas and watch the picture return, colour by colour.
Take your time. There are no paid hints or retries, and no ads during puzzles.
Watch the gameplay trailer Pick a colour, mix it, then paint it back. The trailer uses recorded simulator gameplay with automated moves; longer steps are sped up and labelled. Captions and sound are added. The featured painting requires Tintsmith Complete.
A small studio with plenty to explore
- Journey: 240 colour-matching plates across six acts. New pigments arrive with stories from art history.
- Paintings: three short lessons and twelve detailed painted interpretations. Restore their colours and replay the transformation as a time-lapse.
- Atelier: experiment freely, adjust pigment proportions, name your mixtures and keep them in your collection.
- Colour studies: discover surprising combinations through guided comparisons.
- Daily Salon and Masters: return for a daily trio or explore fifty five-colour palettes and earn studio themes. Salon opponents are simulated apprentices, not live players.
Free to start, with a one-time full unlock Begin with the Cave's 40 Journey plates, a sampler of the next act, three painting lessons, The Lantern Tide painting, the daily Salon and selected studio activities. More rooms open as you play.
Optional Tintsmith Complete permanently unlocks the remaining gameplay and removes every ad and ad offer. Free play has occasional ads between Journey plates and an optional rewarded ad for 30 minutes of active play without ads. No banners or ads during puzzles. No subscriptions, energy systems, paid hints or paid retries. Optional Patron support adds two studio themes.
Available now on iPhone and iPad. Download Tintsmith on the App Store
Tintsmith uses 21 simulated pigments with an authored mixing model, not measured physical paints. Its paintings are the studio's own interpretations inspired by art history, including AI-assisted artwork; they are not museum scans. The game is in English. Some content shown in screenshots requires Tintsmith Complete.
Which part feels most satisfying to you: finding the exact shade, or watching the painting return?
Information
- Status
- Released
- Release
- November2026
- Art style
- Vector, Minimalist
- Platforms
- iOS
- Price
- Freeads · in app purchase
- Players
- Single player
- Age rating
- 13+
Tags
AI disclosure
AI tools assisted coding, debugging, writing, marketing preparation and the creation and refinement of the painted artwork. The game also includes vector drawings. Pigment mixing and puzzle evaluation run locally using authored rules; gameplay does not generate images or call a generative AI service.
