Color Gallery vs TINT: Mosaics or Square Gradients?

Choose Color Gallery for hue puzzles that build mosaic pictures, or TINT for square-tile gradients on a regular grid. The deciding factor is what you want to complete: a piece of a larger artwork or a standalone arrangement of colors. TINT is not affiliated with Color Gallery or its developer.

What Color Gallery's mosaic format adds

Color Gallery's Google Play description connects individual hue puzzles to larger mosaic paintings. Its tiles come in different shapes, so the outlines contribute to the artwork's texture as well as dividing up the colors. You still arrange colors into hue order; the mosaic gives that task a picture to belong to. This is its clearest advantage if collecting finished artwork motivates you to keep playing. When comparing screenshots, look beyond the palette: decide whether the changing shapes and larger picture are part of what you want from the puzzle.

What TINT's square tiles actually look like

TINT uses equally sized square tiles with slightly rounded corners, arranged in rows and columns. The board itself is rectangular: chapter levels range from four columns by five rows to eight columns by ten rows. Some tiles stay fixed and carry a small center dot; the others swap positions. The finished result is an abstract gradient across the whole grid. TINT does not turn completed levels into sections of a mosaic painting, and it does not offer a choice of polygon tile shapes. Choose it if a consistent layout helps you focus on neighboring shades.

How the controls affect the choice

Color Gallery's Google Play listing describes dragging its colored polygon tiles into hue order. TINT lets you drag one movable tile onto another to swap them, or tap two movable tiles in succession. That second option matters if your finger covers the color you are trying to compare during a drag. Fixed tiles remain in place as reference points. Try both TINT controls on an early board and choose the one that feels clearer on your phone. Neither a rectangular layout nor an irregular outline, by itself, tells you how comfortable the controls will feel.

What you can keep after finishing

Color Gallery's App Store description includes saving finished puzzle images for wallpaper use and sharing them. That gives its artwork a use beyond the completion screen. TINT saves earned chapter stars on your device, but has no built-in control to export a finished board as an image or share it. Its result screen reports your moves and awards up to three stars, with fewer moves earning more stars. If you want pictures to keep, that missing export option is a meaningful TINT limitation. If you mainly want to replay a board and improve your result, the stars provide a different reason to return.

A regular grid can still be demanding

TINT's seven chapters contain 70 levels, with palettes ranging from Sunrise and Lagoon to Neon, Pastel, Dusk, and Mono. Board size and the pattern of fixed tiles change across each chapter. The first board's fixed border gives you more reference colors; later boards can leave only the corners fixed. There is no countdown for finishing a board, although your moves count toward the star result. A familiar tile shape therefore does not mean every puzzle asks the same amount of work. Judge the format by whether you enjoy comparing colors across rows and columns, rather than treating square tiles as a promise of easier levels.

Ads, free access, and paid options

Color Gallery is free to download; Google Play labels it as containing ads and in-app purchases. The US App Store also lists a Remove Ads purchase. Check your own store's current price and purchase terms, since that does not establish an identical offer on Android. TINT has no ads. Its first two chapters, Sunrise and Lagoon, provide 20 free boards; the remaining five chapters require a TINT Pro subscription. Weekly, monthly, and yearly plans are offered. Before subscribing, confirm the price, renewal period, and any trial in Google Play's purchase confirmation. Do not assume every trial headline in the app matches the offer available to your account.

Two TINT limits to know before committing

TINT saves completed chapter stars, but it does not save an unfinished board's tile positions or move count for reopening after the app closes. Finish a longer board before closing the app if you want to preserve that work. There is also a completion issue in Mono level 10: identical-looking tiles can be in positions the app rejects even when the colors appear correct. This is an app limitation, so a missing completion screen on that board does not necessarily mean you overlooked a color difference. The hint bulb can place a misplaced tile in its expected position; it becomes available again after a cooldown.

Check the format on the device you will use

Color Gallery has an Android listing on Google Play and an iPhone and iPad listing on the App Store. This TINT comparison covers its Android app. Before choosing, view the store screenshots on the device you plan to use and consider whether you want a larger picture to work toward or a consistent grid to compare. In TINT, use the free chapters to check tile visibility and the tap-to-swap option before considering Pro. For Color Gallery, check the current in-app offer and whether unfinished puzzles resume before relying on either behavior; the official descriptions do not settle those details.