Zen Color - Color By Number 12+

My favorite color by number for mindless relaxing is Zen Color. The free version is pretty fantastic for this kind of app. Lots of great pictures, new images all the time. I find the music relaxing. I’ve been doing one before bed. They also let you share and you get bonus images by doing a certain amount of coloring in different areas. Example 3 nature pictures gets you a bonus picture. But even without that there’s lots of images available for free. The animation is cool. The ads aren’t horrible. They only pop up before or after, not while you’re in the middle. Unless you want to earn free hints by watching extra ads. This is so smart since the premise is Zen/relaxation. The only glitch has been every once-in-awhile I can’t get out of the Royal Flush game ad. No X to close out. Please fix this annoying problem. Otherwise very happy. The price to go ad free isn’t bad - $9.99. I will likely pay for it soon as I like supporting well done Apps. As a software tester once-upon-a-time it’s obviously well thought out and cared for. Thank you developers!

Potential future improvements- several music choices, color choices as an option & if this is added then also the ability to use an image again and again.

I love doing the “Special” category where lovely shading occurs within each cell shape. The results are honestly breathtaking. My mind focuses on the work and absolutely nothing else, and sometimes I’ll work on them for hours at a time, one after another—the most glorious vacation imaginable, pure relaxation. It’s kind of magical, really. I wish they would provide more variety in the music, though, because listening to the same tune repeatedly for hours is hard to manage gracefully. Still, if the repetition becomes too annoying, I simply turn off the sound and keep working. I think this whole thing is addicting!

When not in the Special Category, the pictures of interiors and Victorian houses’ exteriors tend to have garish colors—turquoise walls with pink, orange, purple, and blue furniture inside and all those colors together on the outside. Who could live that way? I’ve stopped working on those types of pictures because they look so silly when I’m through.

The same two songs are driving me crazy. There’s a third one that’s very lovely, but it only plays—possibly—once in ten pictures.

Started messing with zen color about three weeks ago. I was still using iOS 16. It worked great and I had a lot of fun. I upgraded iOS 17, all of a sudden the app started having a clicking sound in it. It was very annoying so I deleted the app. I tried reloading the app, but the clicking sound continued, while trying to use the app to paint. Went back there yesterday, found out that there was an upgrade version. Downloaded the app. Started coloring again. Voilà, no more clicking sound! Thank you for fixing whatever was wrong with the app. It's a lot of fun! Although, I have to take many breaks because my eyes get sore after about 30 minutes. [but that's the same with any app] Thanks again for fixing the app. Pat

[about the new upgrade] although everything seems fine, it would be nice if you change one thing back. Please let me download the picture I color, by itself. I enjoyed coloring a pretty picture, writing a poem, and sending it in a message to my wife. It's not like I'm trying to steal, copyrighted material. The image size only allows it to be printed as a 5 x 5 with any quality. So please take out the background or give me an option where I can just download the picture I finished, by itself. Thank you for listening.