10 Best Color Identification Apps For Android & iOS

“Instantly see any Sherwin-Williams color on your own walls, in real time. With ColorSnap Visualizer’s Paint features, you can use augmented reality or a photo of your space, and tap the wall to change its color instantly. Other features let you match the colors in a photo and quickly get color details, like where to find it in our stores and what colors complement it. Get ready to make faster, more confident color decisions with ColorSnap—only from Sherwin-Williams. In addition to overall enhancements, you can now:
• Always get to the feature you want, using the Explore, Paint and Resources tabs at the bottom of your screen
• In Explore see all our colors on the digital color wall, match a photo or scan a color number.
• In Paint see our colors in context with Instant Paint or Paint a Photo.
• In Resources to find a store, figure out how much paint you need and log into mySW to see any colors you’ve saved, even if you did it on your computer or tablet.
• More easily create, save and share your own paint color palettes
• Quickly share images of rooms you’ve “painted” in the app”

“Color converter converts colors:
RGB to CMYK, HEX and HSV(HSL)
HEX to CMYK, RGB and HSV(HSL)
CMYK to RGB, HEX and HSV(HSL)
HSV(HSL) to RGB, HEX and CMYK

Useful app for designers and developers to quickly convert colors from one format into another.

Preview box gives a preview of the converted color!”

“Capture your world in PANTONE Color, build and create palettes to test on 3D-rendered materials & designs, and share PANTONE Colors with your Creative Cloud® account, clients, and social networks.

Subscribers get access to all PANTONE Colors (more than 10,000 standardized hues across all libraries and disciplines), and receive a 1-week or 1-month free trial with a monthly or annual subscription.

All tools, features, and content are free with a selection of available PANTONE Colors. Those who previously purchased the myPANTONE app get full access without subscription.

TOOLS & FEATURES
Color Values/References
– sRGB
– Hex
– CMYK
– Harmonies (complementary, monochromatic, analogous, split complementary, triadic)
– Cross Reference visually across all Pantone color guides and color systems

Color Palettes
– Build color palettes consisting of up to five colors by selecting from color guides
– Take a photo and use our color picker to build a custom palette
– Extract colors from images on your phone or Pinterest, Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram accounts
– All palettes can be sent to Adobe® Creative Cloud®

Color Studio
– Apply colors against different designs including graphics, interiors, and typography.
– Visualize PANTONE Colors on pliable 3D papers and fabrics.

Crowdsourcing Inspiration
Studio features external sources of content to pull in the inspiring, colorful work of others. Users can scroll through artists’ designs and images organized by PANTONE Color and select their palettes for use.

Subscribe
Bring full color to Studio with one of these subscription options:

Monthly – $4.99/month with 1-week free trial

Annual – $299/year with 1-month free trial

myPANTONE Customers- Full access without subscription to colors and values previously available in myPANTONE

Questions? Contact us at Support@Pantone.com

– Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
– The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
– Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period
– Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user’s Account Settings after purchase
– Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable
For a link to our terms of use and privacy policy, visit: https://www.pantone.com/help/?t=Pantone-Studio-Mobile-app-Privacy-Statement”

“Adobe Capture turns your Android phone/tablet into a creation machine.

Imagine looking through your camera to see patterns, vectors, and even fonts. Now imagine turning those visions into design materials to immediately use in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Fresco, and more. The power to transform the world around you into creative assets to build your projects is in the palm of your hands today.

Vectorize on the Go
Create vectors instantly with Shapes. Turn images into smooth, detailed, scalable vectors with 1-32 colors, for use in logos, illustration, animation, and more. Point and shoot at your drawing or upload a photo and watch it magically transform into clean, crisp lines.

Identify Typography
Find your perfect font using Adobe Capture. Take a photo of the type you like (in a magazine, on a label, a sign, anywhere!) and watch a list of similar Adobe Fonts magically appear.

Create Color Themes and Gradients
Designers, rejoice! Looking for customized color palettes? Find an inspiring gradient? Aim your camera at the scene that has the colors you want and capture them to use in your artwork.

Build Beautiful Digital Brushes
Can’t find the right brush to paint? Take a photo or use an image to create digital brushes that match your creative vision. Use your brushes in Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fresco for rich painterly effects.

Craft Intricate Patterns
Capture inspiring images and generate patterns with Capture preset geometrics. Easily create beautiful, colorful patterns that fit with your creative projects by using your vector shapes with our precision pattern builder.

Generate 3D Textures
Generate realistic PBR materials for use in 3D design straight from the camera. Modify your materials for even more texture or blend the edges for seamless repeat tiling on your 3D objects.

Capture Light and Color
Collect light and hue to turn into beautiful color grading profiles for your images and videos with Looks. Record the magic of a sunset and transfer that feel to use in your photos and video projects.

Seamlessly Sync Creative Elements
All your assets save to Adobe Creative Cloud libraries. Instantly access your digital elements from your Creative Cloud account in all compatible applications.

MediaPost Appy award winner 2016!

Compatible Adobe Apps and Programs for Creative Assets
Photoshop, Adobe Fresco, Photoshop Sketch, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, Illustrator Draw, InDesign, Dimension, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Animate, and Muse

2GB FILE STORAGE
The free, basic Creative Cloud membership includes 2GB of complimentary storage for file syncing and sharing.

Adobe Terms of Use: https://www.adobe.com/legal/terms-linkfree.html
Adobe Privacy Policy: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy-linkfree.html”

“This magical app will turn your photos into awesome color palettes, look at the examples below!

– Pick any photo from your collection.
– Customize the results with multiple creative layouts.
– Share and enjoy colors!

Download now, totally free!

Rated 5/5 by interior design/decoration magazines and blogs!

“I make all my clients use this app.”
– Interior design specialist.

“The best way to capture colors and share them!”
– Pixel-expert.”

“Palette is a beautiful tool for designers and artists, used to create unique color palettes from the inspiration all around you.

** Features **

Use your camera, or saved photos to create beautiful color palettes.

Built in zoom view gives you pixel level precision when picking colours.

Need some help getting started? Browse the inspiration page, an endless supply of great photos ready to be turned into colorful palettes.

Grab individual HEX and RGB values from your palettes to use in web and graphic design projects.

Love your latest palette? Share it on your social media, send via text or e-mail, or just save it to your camera roll, all from inside the app.”

Image color identifier identifies the color and gives you the color code of all colors in a picture. Simply select from your gallery or capture your picture and tap anywhere on the picture to get the color demo and the color-code to be used. Also, explore and use among 1800 different colors available inside app color gallery. Best and light-weight color picker.

Used extensively by developers, artists, color-blinds, professionals, designers and all color lovers.

Key features:-
1. Get colors, their color codes, RGB's and their names by tapping anywhere on any image.
2. Either upload an existing image or capture an image instantly and get started in the app.
3. Explore inside app COLOR-GALLERY consisting of more than 1800 different colors with the name, RGB and Color Codes.
4. Search and explore different types of a single color in our instant search powered COLOR-GALLERY.

“Palettes is a powerful productivity tool for creating and maintaining color palettes. Great for creating color schemes. Now you can create a color palette anywhere at anytime. Grab colors from a photograph, a website, or add colors using any one of 5 color models. Quickly find matching colors with support for many different color schemes. You may create and store any number of palettes.

This application runs at one of three levels: Free, Basic, and Pro. The initial free version runs at the Pro level for a limited time allowing you to fully test the application. It will then revert back to the Free level. Use the included in-application purchasing to upgrade to either the Basic or Pro level at any time.

Key features include:

• Single universal application works on all your iOS devices including iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
• Quickly create a color palette from a web site, image, camera, or color scheme.
• Unlimited number of palettes (Free only supports 3).
• 25 colors per palette (Free and Basic allows 5).
• Undo/Redo support.
• Import/Export palettes from/to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks, GIMP, Paintshop Pro, Procreate, and OS X Color Chooser. (Pro)
• Import/Export palettes via email. Team development made easy with one click import. (Pro)
• Backup and restore your Palettes data directly to/from your own computer, iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, or FTP servers. (Basic, Pro)
• Import and export palette files directly to/from your own computer, iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, FTP servers, or another app. (Pro)
• Email color palettes to friends and co-workers. (Pro adds more options)
• Pick colors from:
  • RGB, HSV (HSB), HSL, CMYK, or Gray scale sliders
  • Standard colors lists (SVG, Web Safe, HTML, Java, Apple) or other palettes.
  • A website URL (webpage, image, CSS file, 3rd party palette file (Pro)).
  • An image or camera.
  • Any valid CSS3 color representation.
• Create colors via:
  • Color blending (Pro adds using 1 of 4 color models).
  • Color schemes (monochromatic (Pro), analogous, triadic, complementary (Pro), split complementary (Pro)).
• Review color information:
  • Details (integer, hex, percent, decimal, CSS).
  • As both a foreground and background color.
• “Palette Flow” (not on iPad)
• Display a color full screen to compare against a real world item (press and hold color briefly).
• Palette preview screen.
• Backup a palette as an image in your photo library for later restore.
• Rename, reorder, or delete palettes.
• Sort palette colors by RGB, HSV/B, HSL, CMYK, or Gray color model.
• All work is saved as you go.
• Always remembers where you left off last.
• Built in context sensitive help system.
• Preferences can be set from within the application. (Basic, Pro)
• Excellent customer support.

Palettes can be used to create color palettes for:

• Web site design
• Marketing campaigns
• Home decorating
• Wardrobe
• Artists
• Color coordinating
• Anywhere colors are needed – just use your imagination

Please visit http://www.maddysoft.com/iphone/palettes to see a more complete set of screen shots and additional information on the features of “Palettes”. The website includes contact information for leaving feedback, asking questions, or reporting any issues.

NOTE: Known limitation – this version is unable to import binary OS X palette files (.clr) from ~/Library/Colors.

NOTE: Screenshots are after upgrading to the Pro level.”

“The most powerful color matcher in the Google Play store!

Finding the right colors for your bedroom has never been easier! Point the phone camera on the wall and see matching colors. Explore the variety of combinations, adjust color palette, and save the best one.

Find 4 matching colors and use 10 different algorithms to choose the set of colors in your taste. Find them with Color Harmony!

FEATURES:
•Variety of color modes (RGB, HSV, RAL, CMYK)
•Variety of algorithms of color harmony
•Matching colors in camera mode
•Finding 4 matching colors in harmony
•Translating colors to RAL format (the color matching system used in Europe)
•Adding swatches to favorites
•Stunning design with clean look and feel
•Support for Adobe Photoshop Color Swatch (.aco) format
•Creating palette based on a photo
•Creating own palettes manually

LANGUAGES:
•English
•Spanish
•Polish
•Italian (thanks, HelperJK and giacomo909090!)
•German
•Turkish (thanks, Abdulkadir!)
•Indonesian (thanks, silvanusestevan!)

If you want this app to be translated to your native language, you can contribute to
http://powsty.oneskyapp.com/collaboration/project?id=15580

Give us your feedback:
https://feedback.userreport.com/619cd784-91e6-4b48-af2e-cad2ace9feea/”

“Ready to take on your next paint project? Start with the newly updated ColorSmart by BEHR® Mobile – a convenient, easy to use tool to help you find your perfect BEHR® color, discover new designer-coordinated color combinations, and preview your color choices in room scenes and on exteriors.

You can now access colors by scanning the barcode on the back of a BEHR color swatch or brochure. – a quick, simple way to validate your color selections. Visit a BEHR Color Solution Center at your local Home Depot® to pick up your paint color chips to get started.

Check out these great features designed for your Android phone: 



• Easily browse or search Behr’s extensive library of over 2500 colors including BEHR MARQUEE™, PREMIUM PLUS ULTRA® and PREMIUM PLUS®.

• Tap the BEHR logo to open the new slide out navigation menu.

• Use the Color Match feature to take a photo, then tap on the image to get the closest matching BEHR color.

• Preview your color choices by selecting from a gallery of room images and styles – simply select a color and then tap on wall, trim or ceiling to visualize your color combinations before you paint.

• Save your favorite colors, room images, palettes, calculations and store locations to your mobile phone—it’s there when you need it.

• Share your color projects with friends and family on your favorite social networks.

• When you’re ready to begin painting, use the Store Locator to help you find The Home Depot near you for the paint and accessories you’ll need. 


In order to improve our customers’ use of our products and this app, Behr tracks certain data associated with the use of this app. No personally identifiable information is transmitted to Behr.

The colors that appear within the ColorSmart by BEHR Mobile App may not match BEHR color standards. The way colors are represented on your screen can be impacted by variances in the screen display among mobile devices and the ambient light from your environment. For the most accurate representation of Behr's colors, please refer to color cards and brochures available at The Home Depot®.

Paint colors within the ColorSmart by BEHR Mobile App are only available for US and Canada.”