Eyedropper Alternatives

Eyedropper is described as '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' and is a Color Picker tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Eyedropper for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Flathub apps. The best Eyedropper alternative is gpick, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Eyedropper are Just Color Picker, Coloraccy, Magnifixer and Sip.

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  1. A tiny, blazing-fast, and distraction-free color picker for Windows, written in pure C (Win32 API). Designed to be as lightweight and performant as possible while providing essential features for developers and designers.

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  2. gcolor2 icon
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    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

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  3. ColorPic icon
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    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

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  4. Colora icon
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    Color converter, screen color picker and color palettes for Windows. Colora is a small but powerful color converter and screen color picker for Windows.

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  5. pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. It supports many different color formats and color spaces as well as ANSI 8-bit and 24-bit representations.

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    • Linux
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  6. Color Cop icon
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    Color Cop is a multi-purpose color picker for web designers and programmers. It features an eyedropper, magnifier, variable magnification levels, 3 by 3 and 5 by 5 average sampling, snap to websafe, color history, and a 42 color complementary palette.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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  7. KDE Plasma color picker widget for the system tray.

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
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  8. ColorMania icon
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    ColorMania is a colorpicker for Windows. It's the perfect solution for previewing, identifying, testing and organizing color values. It can be a very difficult job to get your colors right for a unique or appealing design.

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  9. Virtual Magnifying Glass, a free, open source, screen magnification program for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Free full version download and instructions for use.

    23 Virtual Magnifying Glass alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
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    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
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  10. Pixel Pick icon
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    Pixel Pick is a free color picker tool that pick the pixels color under your mouse cursor on the desktop and translates it into a number of different color formats such as RGB, CMYK, HSB, HEX or Web Color format. A free color picker for grabbing color under your mouse .

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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