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Know the exact color of anything you see.

Point your iPhone at a wall, a fabric, a flower — and read its color live in HEX, RGB, HSB, Lab and CMYK. Calibrated like a pro tool, simple like a camera.

Free. No banners, no subscriptions, no data grabs — ever.

Close-up of a pink gerbera — move your cursor to sample its colors Try me — live demo
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The problem

Your eyes are brilliant liars.

Human vision constantly "corrects" what you see. That's why the paint swatch never matches the wall, and the photo never matches the fabric.

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Light changes everything

The same object looks warm at sunset, cold under LEDs, greenish under fluorescents. Which one is the "real" color?

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Guessing costs money

Repainting a wall, reordering fabric, reprinting a batch — every wrong color guess turns into wasted time and material.

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The answer is in your pocket

Your iPhone's camera plus real color science: measure instead of guessing, and take the number with you.

What it does

Point. Read. Capture.

Everything happens live, on device, in the formats designers and makers actually use.

Live capture

A viewfinder that speaks HEX

Frame anything and watch the readout update in real time. Freeze the reading when it's right, capture it with one tap.

  • HEX, RGB, HSB, Lab and CMYK — switch instantly
  • Freeze & lock to examine a reading calmly
  • Full-screen camera mode with overlay controls
Colorimeter capture screen reading a pink gerbera
Sampling a color from a photo of a flower
From photos

Every photo is a palette

Open any image from your library and tap a point to read its exact color. Perfect for moodboards, references, and pictures taken on site.

  • Pixel-precise sampling with adjustable patch size
  • Save readings straight to your history
Your palette

Captured once, kept forever

Every color lands in a clean visual history with its HEX code — copy, share or revisit any time, on all your devices via iCloud.

  • Full detail view: RGB, HSB, Lab and CMYK together
  • One-tap copy for every format
  • Private iCloud sync — your data, your account
History grid of captured color swatches
The science

Calibrated like the pros do it.

Ambient light fools every camera. Accurate mode fixes it with the same method used in photography and print.

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18% neutral gray

Frame any standard gray reference card. Because it reflects all wavelengths equally, it reveals the true "white" of your scene's light.

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Bradford adaptation

A chromatic adaptation in LMS cone space — the same transform used by ICC color management — corrects every reading toward D65 or D50.

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Honest numbers

Calibrated captures store trustworthy Lab values. And where a phone sensor can't go (metallic, iridescent finishes), the app says so.

Our pledge

No ads. No banners. No "premium unlock". Ever.

You're the user, not the product. Colorimeter has no ads, no tracking, no analytics and no account — your colors live on your device and in your private iCloud, where we can't see them.

🚫 Zero ads 🕵️ Zero tracking 📴 Works offline ☁️ Private iCloud only

Stop guessing colors. Start reading them.

Free on the App Store. Thirty seconds from now, you'll know the color of the first thing you point at.

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