ColorPad AlternativesColor Picker Tools and other similar apps like ColorPad

ColorPad is described as 'A very lighweight yet powerful color picking tool. Skin support' and is a Color Picker tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to ColorPad for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and iPhone apps. The best ColorPad alternative is Just Color Picker, which is free. Other great apps like ColorPad are Realtime Colors, Sip, Instant Eyedropper and Eyedropper.

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  1. If you want to choose a color palette for UI properly, the least you have to do is put them on a lofi UI or grayscale the entire UI on Figma, Adobe XD, or similar platforms to get a better idea of what those colors will actually look like on a product.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Figma
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  2. Sip icon
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    The refreshingly simple color picker for developers that instantly samples and encodes any color on your screen. Just one quick click to savor the flavor and you're set!.

    86 Sip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  3. Instant Eyedropper is a free color detection tool for webmasters that will identify and automatically paste to the clipboard the HTML color code of any pixel on the screen with just a single mouse click.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Eyedropper icon
     3 likes

    This application is geared towards advanced users (developers, designers, etc…), who not only need to pick a color but also modify or view it in different formats. For simply picking a color on Gnome, the color-picker extension is far better suited.

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
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  5. Pika icon
     8 likes

    Pika (pronounced pi·kuh, like picker) is an easy to use, open-source, native colour picker for macOS. Pika makes it simple to quickly find colours on screen, in the format you need, so you can get on with being a speedy, successful designer.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  6. Pixie icon
     43 likes

    Small utility that can show you coordinates and color of any pixel on your screen in different formats (HEX, HTML, RGB, CMYK, HSV). It's staying on top, displays a color of that pixel under mouse cursor, the program can magnify that zone w/ hotkey.

    82 Pixie alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. Colorpicker is a clean, easy to use, yet efficient desktop application for color management. Pick any color on your screen with Colorpicker.

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  8. Free Color Picker is a program that lets you capture the color of any pixel displayed on the screen. To capture a color, just move the cursor to the desired position and press the F4 key. The color below the cursor will be added to the color palette located in the right part of...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. A system-wide color picking utility for Windows to pick colors from any screen and copy it in a configurable format to your clipboard.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Windows
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  10. gcolor2 icon
     23 likes

    gcolor2 is a basic colourpicker utility that allows you to select any colour on your screen, and, well, grab it's colour. It also allows you to save the colour you create to a file, which shows up as a list in the application.

    84 gcolor2 alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  11. ColorPic icon
     21 likes

    Ever tried using a color picker on a high resolution monitor? Its impossible. Thats why this color picker has a magnifier attached. Grab palettes of up to 16 colors at once and use four advanced color mixers to select a spectrum of possibilities.

    89 ColorPic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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