Bible Color Paint By Number

Review by eFreeware

Bible Color Paint By Number is built for people who want their creative downtime to carry some spiritual weight. If you enjoy coloring games but would rather fill in scenes from Genesis, the parables or the Psalms than flowers and cottages, this is the kind of app that fits that gap. It is free to install, it has been downloaded more than a million times, and it holds a 4.8 average from over 13,000 ratings.

What it gives you is a coloring book with a theme running through every page. The developer describes the line art as hand-drawn by a professional team of artists, so the illustrations are meant to carry detail and character rather than looking like generic clip art. On top of the coloring itself sits a prayer and notes feature, which lets you pause, write a thought or a prayer, and keep it on the device.

I'd expect this to appeal most to adults who already have a coloring habit and want the subject matter to match their faith, and to readers who treat scripture as something to sit with rather than rush through. The pace of a color-by-number page suits that: steady, undemanding, easy to pick up in a quiet half hour.

Scripture as a coloring book

The premise is simple enough. Each page is a Bible illustration broken into numbered regions, and you match each number to a color from the palette. The app uses a Color-by-Number system, with artwork made for pixel-level detail and high-precision finishing, and coloring in a Picsart-style digital format. That last part is the developer's own framing rather than a neutral description, but it does suggest the images are meant to look polished when complete.

The subject range is drawn from across the Bible rather than a single book. The subjects include landscapes of Eden, prophets, and verses, with pages inspired by everything from the creation story in Genesis through to the Psalms. That spread matters if you plan to work through the app over months, because it means the visual material doesn't run dry after a dozen pages.

Two verses set the tone, one from Psalm 90 and one from Philippians about prayer and thanksgiving. They give a fair sense of what the app is reaching for: coloring as a quiet devotional activity rather than a competitive puzzle. There are no scores, timers or pressure of any kind.

How a page comes together

A session starts with choosing an illustration. The app uses difficulty tags to sort the pages, so you can pick something light or something with far more numbered regions depending on how much time and attention you have. Number guidance sits alongside the artwork to point you toward the right color, and bookmarks let you flag pages so you can find your way back to a half-finished one.

From there it is the familiar loop: fill a region, watch the picture take shape, move to the next number. You choose between vibrant and subtle color treatments, which gives some room to make a page your own even though the palette is dictated by the numbering. The developer also mentions tracking completed artworks, so finished pages accumulate in your own Bible coloring book rather than disappearing once they're done.

When a piece is finished you can save it or share it, and the app supports exporting your creations. That makes it straightforward to keep a finished page as an image, or to send one to someone else. The prayer and notes feature sits alongside this, so if a particular verse prompts a thought while you're coloring, you can write it down without leaving the app.

What brings people back

The thing that would keep me returning to something like this is the combination of a low-effort activity with a subject I actually care about. Coloring by number asks very little of you — pick a number, tap a region — but the result is a finished piece of art tied to a passage you may have read many times. That pairing is the app's real draw, and it is why the prayer and notes feature feels like more than an add-on.

The bookmarking and difficulty tags support that longer view too. You can leave a complex page part-finished, come back to it later, and still find it. The completed-artwork tracking gives the whole thing a sense of accumulation: over weeks, the app becomes a record of pages you've worked through rather than a series of one-off sessions.

Recent updates cover routine improvements, bug fixes and stability work, with the emphasis on a better coloring experience. There is no new content announced in that update, so I'd read it as maintenance rather than a reason to reinstall. The app was released in November 2023 and was updated in September 2026, which suggests it is still being looked after.

Cost, ads and purchases

Bible Color Paint By Number is free to download. The app contains ads and offers in-app purchases.

The app is rated for Everyone and sits in the Board category on the store, which is a slightly odd home for a coloring game but not something that affects how it works. If you are installing this for a child, the rating suggests the content itself is considered suitable for all ages.

Personal notes are stored locally to protect privacy. That is a specific claim about how the prayer and notes feature handles what you write, and it is the kind of thing that matters if you plan to use those notes for anything personal.

Where the appeal narrows

This is a themed coloring app, and the theme is the whole point. If Bible illustrations are what you want to color, the subject range from Genesis through the Psalms and parables is a genuine strength. If you are looking for a general-purpose coloring game with a wide variety of unrelated subjects, this one is built around a single theme by design.

The color-by-number format is also a specific kind of creative exercise. You fill in regions according to a numbering scheme rather than drawing freely, and the emphasis is on precision and finishing rather than open-ended expression. The choice between vibrant and subtle palettes is the main lever you get over the result.

Neither of those is a flaw so much as a boundary. The app does one thing — scripture-themed color-by-number art with a reflection feature attached — and the question is whether that one thing is what you're after.

A calm pick for scripture-minded colorists

I'd recommend Bible Color Paint By Number to anyone who already enjoys color-by-number games and wants the pictures to mean something to them. The hand-drawn Bible illustrations, the spread of books and stories, the difficulty tags and bookmarks, and the prayer and notes feature all point in the same direction: a slow, quiet activity with a devotional thread running through it. The 4.8 average from a large number of ratings suggests that combination lands well with the people who install it.

If you want a coloring app with no particular theme, or you'd rather draw your own lines than fill in someone else's, the format here won't give you that. But if the idea of filling in a page from the Psalms, saving it, and writing a note beside it sounds like a good way to spend an evening, this is a free way to find out.

What's new in version 1.6.4

What’s New ✨ We’ve made some routine improvements 🛠️ Fixed bugs and enhanced stability 📖 Enjoy a better coloring experience with Bible Color