The 8 Best Colors Apps of 2024

Best Overall Design App: Adobe Capture

The free Adobe Capture app for iOS and Android, like many other apps, can create color palettes by importing an image or taking a photo with your device’s camera. What sets it apart are the other features that make it an all-in-one destination for color and image creation and editing.

Adobe Capture can create digital brushes, render patterns from photos, and edit images for use in 3D artwork. All creations sync to the Adobe Creative Cloud and can be used in other Adobe programs such as Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, and InDesign.

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Best Color App for Walls: ColorSnap Visualizer

ColorSnap Visualizer is a powerful tool that can swap out the color of a wall in real-time using your device’s camera. The colors used to digitally paint the walls can be extracted from a photo of the room or from a color palette saved from a previous session. This allows you to match a new wall color with, for example, a lounge, bookcase, or anything else in a photo.

The ColorSnap Visualizer app is an official Sherwin-Williams Company product which means that its main aim is to get you to buy Sherwin-Williams paint after you’ve used the app. This isn’t required, and the app can be used for experimentation and inspiration.

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Best Pantone Color App: Pantone Studio

For artists and designers who need to plan their projects using Pantone’s color libraries, you can’t do better than the official app, Pantone Studio.

The iOS app allows you to create new Pantone color palettes on the fly, store their existing ones, or share them with clients and colleagues via Adobe Creative Suite or QuarkXPress. Colors can also be copied from files stored locally on your device or from a fresh photo taken from within the Pantone Studio app.

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Fastest Color Palette App: Color Viewfinder

Color Viewfinder is a convenient app when you need to quickly create color palettes. This free iOS app automatically generates a color palette based on a photo on your device and requires little editing and changing.

Color results can be added or removed from the generated palette, and the final selection of colors displays next to the original photo and their HEX color codes.

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Best Color Palette Inspiration App: Coolors

Coolors is a color palette generation app available on the web and as an iOS app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Unlike palette apps that rely on a photo to generate a color swatch, Coolors quickly renders a randomly generated collection of tones when you click the space bar on the desktop or tap the screen on your iOS device.

After the initial palette rendering, colors can be edited via their HSB, RGB, CMYK, Pantone, and Copic numerical values. Collections can be saved to a free Coolors account, exported as PNG, PDF, SVG, and SCSS files, or sent as an email. You can also generate a unique URL for each color palette for others to view online.

Best Free Color Palette App: Palette Cam

Palette Cam is a free app for iOS devices that lets you design a color palette using an image stored on your device. You can import a saved image or take a photo directly from the Palette Cam, then tap different parts of the picture to register colors quickly.

Once the color palette is to your liking, the palette and the image can be saved to your device or shared via social media and email.

Best Color Match App: Color Grab

Color Grab is an incredible Android app for creatives—it does almost everything color-related that you could ask for. This app can detect colors from images and display their color values in up to 17 formats, from RGB and HEX to Web-Safe and YIQ.

What sets Color Grab apart are the additional features that allow you to adjust white levels, mix colors to create new colors, and use the matching screen to create your custom palette. The app and its features are also completely free with no ads.