Citadel Colour: The App

This app is crap! The videos DO NOT WORK! Waste of my time.

I was really excited at the idea of this app as I am just getting in to painting miniatures. I was looking forward to a companion that I could run on my iPad while I paint to reference colors and tutorial videos but there is a major problem with this plan. IT ONLY FUNCTIONS IN PORTRAIT MODE!! What!?!? It’s 2023 and Games Workshop is a MASSIVE company and this app is over 4 years old. How is this not a feature? Most people I know working on the iPad Pro, do so with some type of attached keyboard and in landscape mode. The lack of landscape orientation severely limits the functionality of the app and unfortunately renders it useless for me (and many other users) on the iPad unless I want to disconnect my keyboard and case and completely change my workflow. Hope it’s something that can be addressed as it should be an easy fix.

The Apple version is leaps and bounds behind the windows version. It doesn’t have nearly all the models it should, nor a lot of the functions that the screenshots show (that are on the windows/android version).

Simply put, the GW website is more useful for painting guidance than this app for the simple reason that, on the GW website, you can ZOOM IN and ROTATE the models. The fact that this app does not have this feature is bizarre. There’s also this whole “contrast” option I guess meant to show you what the model “would look like in contrast paints”, but this section is completely empty. Seems like this app is half finished. Other than showing you pictures of the models, it does nothing for you.

The core of this app is fantastic; it helps managing painting much easier. That said, several aspects of the UI are currently very frustrating, but would be easy fixes: 1. Remove the ‘Paint Makes Warhammer’ pop-up which shows EVERY TIME the app is run. As someone accessing it multiple times a day, that’s a LOT of pointless journey interruptions. If you insist on having it, just show it once for new app users, then never again. 2. Show item counts in the header for the ‘Inventory’, ‘Wishlist’, and ‘All’ lists. Knowing how many paints I have vs how many I want is pretty key! 3. Allow exports of the Inventory to PDF, not just the wishlist. I often want to tell people the stuff I have, not the stuff I want to buy! 4. Where are the Sons of Horus models and matching colours? Seems to be quite a bit of Horus Heresy missing.

But it’s slow to update new models, even major stuff like the Rogal Dorn Battle Tank. Can also be limited on models and color variants in general

It’s always lovely to look at the models and learn more about painting, it’s just a shame that you can’t zoom or rotate the images.

The title says it all

Use this for all my miniatures.

Used to, it was stable, I could view base painting schemes and was a simple and intuitive app. Now? Crashes if I filter too much and bases are nowhere to be seen. I still have some use for it, but I’m almost better off using my imagination.