Get from shelf to session.

Paintwarden doesn’t bundle a paint catalog. Paints, color schemes, and miniature templates come from plugins: public GitHub repositories, or .zip files, in the Paintwarden source format. Open Data & settings → Plugins, then paste a repository in owner/repository form or choose Upload .zip. Plugins a catalog depends on are installed with it.

Installed catalogs stay available offline. Plugins from GitHub can be checked for updates and synced. To update an uploaded plugin, upload a newer version of it; uploading the same version changes nothing, and an older version is refused until the installed one is removed. A plugin can be removed once your vault no longer uses its paints, schemes, or templates; the app lists anything that still does.

Create plugin packages your own paints, schemes, and templates as a ready-to-publish repository. The source format guide describes every file.

Open Paints to search the paints from your plugins, mark a paint as owned or wishlisted, and update the number of bottles on hand. Add your own paints when a color is missing from your catalog.

Use Miniature in the sidebar to add a model to your collection or wishlist. Open its detail view to add notes, images, and paint requirements. Attach schemes to reuse a color recipe across models.

The Workbench summarizes which projects are ready to paint and which paints are still missing. From a model’s paint recipe, add missing colors to your wishlist.

Open Schemes to browse color recipes or create your own. A scheme can include ordered paints, dividers, and reference images. Attach one to a miniature when you want its recipe available in the project.

A template is a miniature’s starting setup: its maker, faction, color schemes, and paint steps. Browse the templates from your plugins in Templates, pick one when you add a miniature, or use Save as template on a miniature you’ve already planned.

Paint compare ranks catalog paints by screen-color similarity, with notes on lightness, hue, and vividness. Treat the score as a starting point: finish, primer, and coverage can change the real result.

The Recipe converter adapts a scheme to your collection. Review the suggestions and save a new scheme; the source remains unchanged.

The Wishlist collects paints and miniatures you want. Add paints from a model’s missing recipe, then use the list while shopping. Updating paint ownership brings your collection and project readiness back together.

In Data & settings, Export saves one .zip file with everything in the vault: miniatures and their photos, paints, recipes, schemes, templates, and installed plugins. Your account and password aren’t included.

Restore from a backup shows what the file contains, then either merges it into the current vault or replaces the vault with it. The repository guide also covers copying the Docker volume.