Home Screen
Your personalised dashboard for scanning, matching, and managing your paint collection.
Overview
The home screen is your central hub in Mixura. It provides quick access to all core features and displays your recent activity at a glance.
Top Bar
The top bar contains three elements:
- Help icon (left) -- Tap to launch a guided tour of the current screen's features. Helpful coach mark tooltips appear highlighting each element.
- Mixura logo (centre) -- The colourful M logo.
- Settings icon (right) -- Opens the Settings screen.
Personalised Greeting
Below the top bar, you'll see a personalised greeting that uses your first name (if signed in). For example: "Marcus, ready to mix it up?"
If you're using the app as a guest, the greeting will read: "Artist, ready to mix it up?"
My Paints Section
A horizontal carousel showing your selected paint brands. Tap any brand card to browse that brand's full paint catalogue.
- Free users: Up to 3 paint brands displayed
- Pro users: All 21 brands available
Each brand card shows the brand logo and the number of paints you own from that brand. Additional elements include:
- Edit button -- Tap to add or remove paint brands, filtered by medium (acrylic, oil, watercolour, gouache)
- Owned count indicator -- Shows the total number of paints you've marked as owned across all brands. Tap to open My Collection
My Palettes Section
A horizontal scroll showing your created palettes. Each palette card displays a preview of the colours it contains. Tap a palette to view its details.
- Free users: Up to 3 palettes
- Pro users: Unlimited palettes
My Scans Section
A grid of your recently scanned colours, showing thumbnail previews. Tap any scan to revisit its match results.
Action Buttons
At the bottom of the home screen, three large illustrated action buttons float above a white bar, providing quick access to Mixura's core features:
| Button | Colour | Action |
|---|---|---|
| Snap Color | Teal | Opens the camera for real-time colour scanning |
| From Photo | Indigo | Opens your gallery to select a photo and extract colours from it |
| From Palette | Orange | Select a previously saved colour from one of your palettes and find new paint matches for it |
The "From Palette" button opens a two-step selector: first choose a palette, then pick a colour from that palette. The selected colour is sent to the Match Results screen for matching.
Feature Tips (Coach Marks)
The first time you visit the home screen, guided tooltips automatically highlight each section. You can replay these tips at any time by tapping the help icon (top-left). See Settings to enable, disable, or reset feature tips.
Navigation
From the home screen you can navigate to:
- Settings -- Tap the gear icon in the top-right corner
- Brand Paints -- Tap any brand card in the My Paints carousel
- My Collection -- Tap the owned count indicator
- Palette Detail -- Tap any palette card
- Match Results -- Tap any scanned colour thumbnail
- Feature Tips -- Tap the help icon to replay the guided tour
Light & Dark Mode
The home screen automatically adapts to your system's light or dark mode setting, or respects your manual theme choice in Settings.