Workbench
See which miniatures are ready to paint and how many paints each project still needs.
NewPaint Tools: compare colors and convert schemes
Paint more. Hunt less.
Paintwarden keeps your paints, miniatures, and color recipes together, so you know what's ready before you sit down to paint.
macOS & Windows
Self-hosted web app
Your data stays yours
Plugins
Catalogs you choose
Paints, schemes, and templates from GitHub or a .zip
Yours
Custom colors
Add paints, schemes, and templates of your own
1 file
Complete backups
Records, photos, and plugins in one .zip
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Ways to run it
Desktop app or your own server
The workbench
Everything on your painting desk, connected
Seven places in the app, each one aware of the others. Mark a paint as owned and every project that needs it updates.
Miniatures
Track every model you own or want, with photos, notes, and a painting stage from assembled to complete.
Paints
Search your installed ranges, mark bottles as owned, and keep count of what's on the shelf.
Wishlist
Collect missing paints and wanted miniatures in one list for the store.
Schemes
Save ordered color recipes with steps and reference images, then reuse them across models.
Templates
Start a miniature from a template that already carries its schemes and paint steps.
Paint Tools
Compare colors and convert a scheme into one built from paints you already own.
Data & settings
Export and restore a backup, change the server connection, and choose whether sign-in is required.
Paints
Know exactly what's on your shelf
Every bottle in one searchable library. Install paint ranges as plugins, mark what you own, set quantities, and add anything your catalog is missing.
- Install paint catalogs as plugins from GitHub or a .zip
- Owned, wishlist, and quantity at a glance
- Add custom colors your catalog is missing
Projects
Open a model, see what's missing
Each miniature keeps its notes, photos, and paint recipe. Paintwarden checks the recipe against your shelf and tells you what to buy.
- Recipes check themselves against your collection
- Send missing paints to the wishlist in one tap
- Attach reusable schemes to any miniature
Paint Tools
Find a stand-in from paints you own
Paint compare ranks catalog colors by how close they look on screen. The Recipe converter swaps a scheme's paints for ones on your shelf and saves a new copy.
- Lightness, hue, and vividness differences explained
- Review every swap before you save
- Your original scheme stays unchanged
Your vault, your rules
Your collection lives where you choose
Paintwarden stores your collection in a SQLite database on hardware you choose. The desktop app can also connect to a server you already run.
On your computer
The desktop app runs a private vault on macOS or Windows. No separate server to set up.
On your own server
Run the web app with Docker Compose and open it from any browser on your network.
Behind your sign-in
A one-time setup code protects creating the owner account. The owner decides whether vault data needs sign-in.
Ready for the next session?
Install the desktop app or run your own web vault.