Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 05:08 pm
Dark Color: Paint by Number – Board Game Review
Dark Color: Paint by Number is a Board/Puzzle/Entertainment game from POMELO TECH (HK) HOLDINGS CO., LIMITED, first launched in 23rd November 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 17,613+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dark Color: Paint by Number Stand Out
A moody, surreal, and immersive coloring experience
Step into Dark Color: Paint by Number, a creative coloring app designed for users who enjoy expressive art, atmospheric visuals, and deeper aesthetics beyond cute or cartoon styles. With moody tones, surreal imagination, and detailed illustrations, Dark Color offers a calm yet engaging way to relax, focus, and explore creativity through paint-by-number coloring. Whether you color to unwind, concentrate, or simply enjoy unique artwork, Dark Color provides a balanced experience where imagination meets relaxation.
What Makes Dark Color Different
Dark Color reimagines classic paint by number with a more artistic and immersive approach.
• A large and growing collection of expressive illustrations with rich mood and detail
• Clear, well-balanced designs that are satisfying and easy to color
• Simple tap-to-color gameplay designed for focus and flow
• Offline coloring available anytime, anywhere
• Regular updates bringing new artwork and visual inspiration
Every illustration is carefully designed to feel engaging without being overwhelming, making each coloring session smooth, enjoyable, and calming.
Explore Expressive & Surreal Themes
Discover a collection of imaginative and atmospheric artwork, including mysterious characters, surreal creatures, and expressive figures inspired by creativity and storytelling. Explore quiet forests, old houses, abstract spaces, and evocative landscapes designed to feel immersive and calming. Elegant symbolic forms and thoughtfully composed scenes invite slow, focused coloring and creative flow.
Each illustration is carefully balanced with clear structure and visual comfort, making it ideal for users who enjoy expressive, artistic coloring without visual stress.
Artistic Styles with Depth and Personality
Dark Color features illustrations inspired by alternative aesthetics, surreal art, fantasy imagination, and stylized design.
You’ll find artwork influenced by tattoo-style illustration, symbolic imagery, abstract forms, and expressive character design.
The collection focuses on mood, creativity, and atmosphere, offering visuals that feel bold yet approachable, artistic yet calming.
All designs are suitable for a 13+ audience, with no explicit or disturbing content.
Designed for Relaxation and Focus
Coloring in Dark Color is designed to help you slow down and enjoy the moment.
Following the numbered guide allows your mind to focus on color, rhythm, and completion. Watching each illustration gradually come to life can feel satisfying, calming, and rewarding.
There are no timers, no pressure, and no scores—just color at your own pace.
Features for Effortless Coloring
• Simple tap-to-color controls
• Smooth zoom in and zoom out for precise coloring
• Auto-fill tools to speed up larger areas
• Dark mode for comfortable nighttime coloring
• Easy sharing to save or show your finished artwork
Everything is designed to feel intuitive, stable, and comfortable for long or short coloring sessions.
Why Users Enjoy Dark Color
• A relaxing experience with a moody, artistic aesthetic
• Encourages focus, flow, and creative engagement
• Perfect for fans of surreal, fantasy, and expressive art
• Suitable for teens and adults seeking calm creativity
Dark Color is more than a coloring app—it’s a creative space to unwind and explore imagination through art.
Start Coloring Today
Download Dark Color: Paint by Number and explore a world of mood, imagination, and artistic expression.
Relax, focus, and enjoy immersive coloring—one number at a time.
Contact & Policies
Feedback: [email protected]
Terms of Service: http://launchertheme.com/paint_tos.html
Privacy Policy: http://launchertheme.com/paint_color_pp.html
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dark Color: Paint by Number is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 27th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Discover new moody and surreal illustrations.
Enjoy smoother coloring, clearer details, and immersive experiences.
Relax, focus, and bring expressive artwork to life.
Download & Availability
Dark Color: Paint by Number is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Dark Color: Paint by Number on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Thanks for having a coloring site where the pictures are beautiful. For us this is a relaxing site for coloring.
There are so many things to color and you can even search for things. But also soooo many ads. We also have friends wondering when this will be available on android.
To many ads we do love the pictures but an ad pops up every single time. If we decline an ad and ad still pops up, if Im in the middle of coloring and ad pops up when Im done coloring and add pops up when we start a coloring and add pops up add after add after add after add after add keeps popping up its annoying.
Nice pictures but way too many ads.
The art is really cool we love vampires only reason its getting a 2 star is for that reason only did 2 paintings & we already want to uninstall this app just way to many ads if it wasnt for the vampires it would be 1 star for us.
The ads come too consistently and last too long, the game would be enjoyable if they didnt come every 30-45seconds. We love the game itself but the ads will inevitably give it a short lifespan on our phone.
Ive played thousands of coloring games and ads are always apart of it but to have an ad every few colors is just annoying. We love to color the spooky pictures and even some of the adult pictures are pretty but to do three colors and watch an ad when theres 70 colors is so irritating. Put ads after you finish or when you start but not in the middle of it. Fix this or we will delete.
This is such a good game we cant believe it we cant find the perfect game for coloring for us so we found this when we bought it. Omg this game is really really made for artist. From:Rayna.
We absolutely love the pictures we get to color, especially if you get the VIP pass.
We love () it's so fun there is so much pictures and it's so fun we would give it a 100 if we could.
One of the best art paint games out there but to many ads especially when your coloring. It will be better if you have the art be unlock by reviewing the ad instead of having multiple ads when coloring it ruins the flow of the game we would have gave it a 5 star but with ads interfering while your coloring gives it a 4 star.
We love the variety of pictures in this app, there really is something for everyone. So many different styles and levels of difficulty. We also love that you can choose from more adult themes. HOWEVER, the amount of ads is almost unbearable sometimes to the point where we find ourselves giving up halfway through a picture as much as we have to do so. We understand the ads are necessary for a free app but it seems like every 3-5 numbers you finish coloring theres another ad. Highly recommend unless youre someone who has zero patience or tolerance for ads lol.
We got this app a while ago and we definitely didn't expect what this would be. When we got it, it said 4+ and it definitely is not for younger crowds. Please don't let children of young age use this until they are at least 13.
The app is amazing, color pages great, finally a color by number for adults. Sadly the amount of ads is beyond annoying. You have to watch an ad to unlock colors, watch an ad in the middle of coloring, and then when finishing. And not to monitor you have multiple colors locked on a picture. Its not fun. Ive done a lot of color by numbers that dont have this many ads. We spend more time watching ads than getting yo color a page.
Way too many ads. Ads should never pop up during a color session, let alone 4 or 5 times.
We love the coloring appwhen we can actually color. There are SOOOOOOOO many ads. We watched an ad, then less than 3 seconds later, another ad. Thats ridiculous, we understand you need ads to keep the app free, but do you really need that many.
Love all the different types of pictures there's just WAY TOO MANY ADS we have to watch one every 8 minutes.
This coloring app could have been amazing but there is just to many ads.
The pictures to color are great, but having 5+ ads every time youre trying to color kinda makes it not worth it they should really get away with these constant pointless ads.
We like the pictures we think theyre cool but there are so many ads. We have to watch more ads than we get to color. We even tried the 3 day free trial and there are still ads.
We love the color pages but there is way too many adds.
Yall create this then put 4+ why would a parent let a child see those pictures of the us..women and its not free.
We love the app so much. It has a lot of fun pics to color and very rare ones at that .. Its a mature coloring app. However the ads are too much .. But still love it regardless.
We love this game so much it is so fun and we would 10 out of 10 recommend but not for small children.
We like the pictures but there are too many ads. We dont mind having to watch an ad after coloring each picture, but to do it every so many colors or every so many taps on the screen is ridiculous. If you could adjust the amount of ads that would be awesome. Also the age rating on this says 12 and up but with the amount of adult content that age should probably be raised by at least 4 or five years.
The app is good and the pics are nice but this app is clearly for mature audiences. It shouldnt be 12+. Most of the stuff is sexual in nature.
If your phone is on low battery mode it causes the game to lag super bad, but other wise the game is super fun and had a bunch of different options.
We love this coloring book its so beautiful and relaxing until an ad pops up. We really love the idea of it but id really appreciate it if we can get less of the ads so we can get the relaxing part throughout the whole coloring process. We hate coloring and being interrupted by an ad and its SOOOOOO LONG like a minute long. Sorry but until this gets fixed we dont see people wanting to color at all. Plus the whole buying part just to not receive apps is crazy, but we get it. Please help with this so were not frustrated.
Its not bad but the ads there are so many ads and they are so long usually over a minute, but other than that, the pictures are ok and the game is all right.
We love to color. This apps ads are ridiculous! We understand the need for ads but to much is to much! Ive only colored 2 pictures and couldnt tell you how many ads Ive seen. Im going to color 2 more, see how it goes, or delete.
Its irritating us so bad, we get having premium/vip for certain pictures but having ads on a coloring app is just sick.
Waaaaaaayy 2 many ads! Beside that so far havent had an issue yet.
Love the game and the pictures are awesome. 5 Stars! The ads bring it down. We don't mind ads, but the ads in the middle of the puzzle are quite annoying, especially the ads that tell you "you may have been infected with a virus". Please don't allow these crooks to advertise on your otherwise fine product. Ads for extras and ads before and after the puzzle, understandable. All of the sudden in the middle of working a puzzle, well, not cool.
There were adds and every time there was an add at the very end and when you press the skip adds it still puts and add but everything else was good.
3 stars because we love the art but we couldnt even get through one picture without 5 ads. Not to mention $70 a year for no adds or $15 a month. Thats absolutely ridiculous.
They had awesome art style to color. The only issue we had was we couldnt complete one without 4 or more adds showing up while Im doing it and they are unavoidable and 30 seconds long every time. Plus the wait time to leave the ad. If it wasnt like that it would be our go to coloring app but we had to uninstall it cause of that. They have unique style that not all apps have tho so we guess you just need the patience to deal with the adds and if you got that then your set.
We dont mind ads and fully expect them while using the free version, but this was way over the top. Ads even triggered without us touching the screen. Way overboard. Virtually unusable.
We understand ads are what makes the app free but it should be an ad between pictures not 5 million ads in 1 coloring picture.
We understand the need for adds and we dont mind them normally but this app has and abundance of them. We cant even get through a full picture before an add randomly interrupts us or if we leave the app for even a moment we need to watch an add when we come back. The part that pushed us to write this was that we cannot finish the majority of our pictures because an add covers the continue button. We think this is why we previously deleted the app.
Too many ads popped up, we had 2-3 within 30seconds- a minute..? Other than that the designs and everything are pretty :).
Pictures are cute but it wont let us listen to music at the same time, it was glitchy at times, and adds were so frequent we couldnt enjoy coloring.
There is just way too many ads Im about to lose our mind we cant do this we hate the ads but we love the pictures you should do an ad every like ten pictures cause imma lose our mind sorry.
We get that free apps will have ads. That's fine. But this app is the worst with ads out of any free app we have EVER used. It's 90% ads, and 10% coloring. The pictures are great, but a lot of pictures you either have to pay for or watch an ad for, which is fine on its own, but we're sorry, we're not paying $70 a year for a coloring app, and when you consider all of the ads, it's just obnoxious. An ad to unlock a picture, an ad when you choose a picture, an ad when you finish a picture, an ad 3-6 times while you're in the middle of a picture, an ad when you get a "reward", etc. Etc. ITS ALL ADS. STOP.
Our app is not updating every day with new pictures when we go to daily at the same pictures for a week down, please fix it we have to restore our app every day or it only gives we have to restore our app every day and it is not collecting the pictures that we put a heart by please fix this. This is the second or third time our dad.
Ads ads and more ads awesome coloring pages but like 10 ads per post picture.
Images are extremely unique, and the variety is extraordinary!! It is entertaining it is easy. They are principal and worth every dime with the premium. They are printable and they are screen savers they are good for people who Fidget and satisfy us thats not easy with the phone. We dont play games this we love.
We were happy to see all the options and the images are actually really nice and interesting and then we realized its only color by number and you cant just free color which lost us but Ill definitely be using the images for inspo for our own personal coloring.
There's way too many ads. It's getting annoying. Please stop with the ads.
The art is amazing but the frequency and length of the advertisements are ridiculous. The cost to remove the ads is excessive too.
Typical PBN with a lot of great pics. Our issue is the sheer amount of ads. Obviously its on purpose to force you to pay for ad removal but we dont see the value in the price they ask. Subscription based, naturally. A one time purchase for as removal would be nice.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.2.22
- Size: 269.25 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: AR, DA, NL, EN, FR, DE, HI, IT, JA, KO, NB, PT, RU, ZH, ES, SV, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: POMELO TECH (HK) HOLDINGS CO., LIMITED
Last updated: 27th December 2025 | Genre: Board, Puzzle | Developer: POMELO TECH (HK) HOLDINGS CO., LIMITED