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Dark Color: Paint by Number
POMELO TECH · 20,051 ratings · ★ 4.5
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Top complaints - extracted from 62 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"coloring"
15 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ad’s ad’s AD’S😩🙄😒😫😡. The pictures and almost everything is good but there is way to much ads I can’t go 2 minutes without getting at lease a 1 minute and 30 second ad I mean I understand that if I’m using the app for free I will get ads but the amount of ads an…" - Bella.21.
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"color"
15 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ad’s ad’s AD’S😩🙄😒😫😡. The pictures and almost everything is good but there is way to much ads I can’t go 2 minutes without getting at lease a 1 minute and 30 second ad I mean I understand that if I’m using the app for free I will get ads but the amount of ads an…" - Bella.21.
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"picture"
11 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ad’s ad’s AD’S😩🙄😒😫😡. The pictures and almost everything is good but there is way to much ads I can’t go 2 minutes without getting at lease a 1 minute and 30 second ad I mean I understand that if I’m using the app for free I will get ads but the amount of ads an…" - Bella.21.
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"game"
10 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Awful. There is no way I would buy this game. I have no problem with dark or even vulgar pictures but in the ad, the first picture it says “f the police”. SHAME ON YOU!!!" - Donnajkc
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"pictures"
9 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ad’s ad’s AD’S😩🙄😒😫😡. The pictures and almost everything is good but there is way to much ads I can’t go 2 minutes without getting at lease a 1 minute and 30 second ad I mean I understand that if I’m using the app for free I will get ads but the amount of ads an…" - Bella.21.
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"while"
7 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "LONG ADS WARNING ! Unless you pay $69.00. WAY too many ADS! I have Never seen so many ADS while coloring a picture. Usually there is an ad beginning of a picture and after. Also Ads for hints. BUT This app calls the good pics VIP . You have to pay for them. The plain pictur…" - Jasmine pie
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"deleted"
7 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "LONG ADS WARNING ! Unless you pay $69.00. WAY too many ADS! I have Never seen so many ADS while coloring a picture. Usually there is an ad beginning of a picture and after. Also Ads for hints. BUT This app calls the good pics VIP . You have to pay for them. The plain pictur…" - Jasmine pie
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"watch"
7 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Pay and ads. 4 ads while doing a picture. Cant skip or shorten them. You will watch more ads than you will paint. And those nice pics they show you in the ad for this app? All pay. VIP only. Some nice pics but the most ads of the 800 apps I have." - Deathrite
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"every"
7 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ad’s ad’s AD’S😩🙄😒😫😡. The pictures and almost everything is good but there is way to much ads I can’t go 2 minutes without getting at lease a 1 minute and 30 second ad I mean I understand that if I’m using the app for free I will get ads but the amount of ads an…" - Bella.21.
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LONG ADS WARNING ! Unless you pay $69.00
WAY too many ADS! I have Never seen so many ADS while coloring a picture. Usually there is an ad beginning of a picture and after. Also Ads for hints. BUT This app calls the good pics VIP . You have to pay for them. The plain pictures have at least 5 long ads while coloring. They make a bunch of the numbers have locks . Then long ads come up. There are other coloring
apps with similar and much better pictures with way less ads.
I just deleted this app and all my friends have deleted it.
apps with similar and much better pictures with way less ads.
I just deleted this app and all my friends have deleted it.
Possible Virus
The “AD” was a 🌽 video so hopefully I don’t get a virus 😫😫😫😫
Pay and ads
4 ads while doing a picture. Cant skip or shorten them. You will watch more ads than you will paint. And those nice pics they show you in the ad for this app? All pay. VIP only.
Some nice pics but the most ads of the 800 apps I have.
Some nice pics but the most ads of the 800 apps I have.
Ad after ad
6 ads and haven’t even finished the first color
ADS ADS AND MORE ADS
TO MANY ADS ALL THE TIME AND YOU CANT STOP THEM. NOT PAYING MONEY FOR THAT. DELETED.
Too many adds - they won’t change
Look at the reviews- people have been complaining about how many adds for a very long time on this app. Not worth the $69 annual premium - which glitches. They deleted my last review. Great graphics poor business model
Awful
There is no way I would buy this game. I have no problem with dark or even vulgar pictures but in the ad, the first picture it says “f the police”. SHAME ON YOU!!!
Inappropriate & false advertising
Putting minor characters into generated AI sexual imagery with drugs in advertisements. I was playing a kid game when this ad popped up. A child watching that would have been.horrible. Shame on you.
Trash
Can’t color for a minute or two and then you get an ad. You resume coloring and you almost instantly have to watch another ad. This is ridiculous and just a way to get you to spend 14.99 a month or 69.99 a year.
Used to love this app
Used to love this app but now it’s all AI garbage. Do not download.
What a joke!
Nothing but a money grab! More ads than you can count. Complete garbage!
It repeats itself
It keeps repeating itself by telling me I need to finish coloring but when I go to the app the coloring isn’t there as it’s already finished
None of the Disney stoner princess photos like advertised
They have some sexy and spooky princesses, but none of the stoner princesses like the advertisement
Turn off annoying music
I open the app and the annoying music is on repeat even tho i have the game sound off in the game settings
Horrible
Deleted immediately. Absolutely horrendous. Nonstop ads. I’m not paying for a fkn coloring app when ads will continue to still pop up ruining your mood.
Not to bad but
It has been messing with me plying weird sounds I’ve turned the sound off but the sound keeps playing. It’s like the settings are broken.
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Way to many Ads
Nope!
I don’t understand this concept. You get no choices on which color to color. It’s literally just doing a bunch of tapping with all the color making decisions already decided for you. Huh? What’s the point?!
no go for me
so many damn ads. cool pictures but the ads make it not worth it at all
Absolute garbage
Gooner AI slop
Game
I pay for a subscription but can’t color cause all it do is load
Dark Color
The pictures are great. Just don’t upgrade to the premium. I did and well, the ads did go away, but after a few weeks, the unlimited hints went away. I read the FAQ’s and one said to hit the restore button in the setting menu. That world, well sort of, I had to hit that every time I opened the app. Then after about 5 days of this, it stop working.
I wrote the developer and they actually responded back fairly quickly. I sent them the info they requested. That was over a week ago and not a thing has been done.
Guess I just wasted $70
I wrote the developer and they actually responded back fairly quickly. I sent them the info they requested. That was over a week ago and not a thing has been done.
Guess I just wasted $70
Horrible
This app sucks do not buy
Faults advertisement
Thanks for not mentioning that it cost
Pros and cons
Pros are you you can save a picture to color for later cons you can’t color offline another con is if you pause to color it asks you if you’re still coloring another con is you have to watch ads to unlock colors
Too Many Ads
I have no issue with watching ads in a game, but they should never interrupt game play! This game has way too many ads making this a struggle to use.
Not ad free
Every time you color a page, it pops up ads for other games that you don’t want nothing to do with and keeps doing it over and over and over
Annoying
Too many ads. Too many teeny tiny parts that you can’t even see even when using a hint.
So apparently I have to just edit this review. I have deleted the game now. Ever since my first posted review I’ve now had 101 second ads instead of 30second ads and they come more frequently. If I could give it a 0 I would.
So apparently I have to just edit this review. I have deleted the game now. Ever since my first posted review I’ve now had 101 second ads instead of 30second ads and they come more frequently. If I could give it a 0 I would.
Ads
I don’t like it when give you too many ads
What a joke
I made a review talking about how this app was littered with unbearably often ads and was 90% AI art, and got a response that everything is original. That’s such an obvious lie that it’s hilarious. Look at ANY of these pictures and tell me there no weirdness, there’s no unintelligent writing, that any human ever could make art that “consistent” that fast. Don’t waste your time with pathetic devs who lie to their audience and use AI to do their work for them.
No!!!!
It was great until it went to tripping redo it
Add APP
Waaaay too many adds, I understand adds keep the app free, but the amount of adds are insane
Ads
Great pictures but entirely too many ads there’s literally an add every 45 seconds it takes forever to even color one picture
Ads
I have been paying for no ads for quite some time now. And during these last two times I’ve paid I noticed that I am still getting ads. I am not pleased with this. Especially with having to pay for something and not get what I asked for. It’s false advertisement.
Don’t Bother
None of the pics you see in the ads are there & anything good you have to pay for.
Ads, ads, and more ads
Full non-skipable ad about every 4 minutes. And when starting the game. And when starting a new piece. And when just sitting idle. And when you breathe… and, well, you get the idea.
Too many ads!
I spend way too much time almost daily on coloring apps and all of them ads, however, other coloring apps are setup in such a way that an ad plays before and/or after to start/complete a picture and you have the option to watch an ad if you’re needing a “hint” but this app requires you to watch an absurd amount of ads. I just finished a coloring picture and was made to watch 6 (six!!) ads!! I understand that ads are present for a reason but forcing someone to watch 6 ads to color one picture is quite ridiculous! I love the genre in which this particular coloring app contains and that’s why I haven’t deleted it but I get so fed up with ads that I usually only color one picture, am reminded of insane the ad count is, then going to another app and not reopening this one for months. The creators/publishers/etc should really consider how consumers feel about being forced to watch an insane amount of ads.
No thank you
Not Interested
What a wasted opportunity
I got requested this app while using another color by number app and immediately jumped to download it. The pictures/options are phenomenal..I was so stoked. Then I realized that every 3 colors that you use, per picture, you get a long video ad (not the quick x out pop up ads) literally every 3 colors. Comparable apps will usually have an ad before the pic….but not multiple thorough out the pic. And even those other apps only use the quick pop up ads. It would almost be bearable since the pictures are so cool if they were the quick
ads..but this……it’s just way too much. Didn’t even finish the entire picture and will be deleting the app. Hope developers see this. I’d guarantee you, you’d have a cult following if you changed that feature. I know ads are a necessary evil, but there’s a different way to go about it that would please both developers and users.
ads..but this……it’s just way too much. Didn’t even finish the entire picture and will be deleting the app. Hope developers see this. I’d guarantee you, you’d have a cult following if you changed that feature. I know ads are a necessary evil, but there’s a different way to go about it that would please both developers and users.
Blech
In other words”coloring apps” this is pre shaded. Pics aren’t cartoon like as shown in ad.
Ai slop
Not a single one of these pictures Dont look ai. Or anything like they did in the ads. Or even the loading screen. If you’re a fan of talent and usefulness this isn’t the app for you.
Been playing this for a couple months to a year
So obviously as the title says that ive been playing for a while.
I purchased the premium no ads edition of the game and ads are popping up I paid $14.99 on December 13, 2025.
Can yall fix this?
I purchased the premium no ads edition of the game and ads are popping up I paid $14.99 on December 13, 2025.
Can yall fix this?
Ads galore
If you like being bombarded with ads every 10 seconds, forced to watch the entire thing, go ahead. For me * middle finger*
L app
Way too many ai images and not enough real artwork. L app
This is disgusting
This app is vile. I saw the ad for it, and downloaded just so i could review it. It’s listed as “12 and up”, but this stuff is so nasty that i dont even want to color it, and im 40. There’s so many outlets that parents have to protect our kids from, especially stuff that uses images of things our kids love that draw them in, then the app/video introduces things that are 1000% inappropriate for children. What kind of sick minds come up with this nasty disgusting way to taint children? Create a coloring app with adult themes if you want, but dont peddle your app to kids with popular kid favorites as a facade for smut. Just gross.
Pay
U have to pay after three days
What is it?
Garbage !! you can’t pass the first screen without paying or agreeing to pay..
Ad Hell
You are forced to watch an ad every 60 seconds while trying to color.
Play Zen Color instead! No interruptions. 1 skippable ad before and after you color a picture but ZERO ad interruptions while coloring.
Play Zen Color instead! No interruptions. 1 skippable ad before and after you color a picture but ZERO ad interruptions while coloring.
Was my go to for relaxing.
Recently a pop up window appears if you’re idle for for a few seconds about pausing. It’s very annoying when it happens while searching for spots to color. Otherwise it’s a great app that I may end up canceling because of that stupid pop up.
False
I only downloaded for the Steelers pics and can’t find them at all
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Sentiment summary
87%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
8%
Negative (1-2★)