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 Just Color Picker, which is free. Other great apps like Eyedropper are gpick, Magnifixer, Instant Eyedropper and Sip.

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Alternatives list

  1. Color Selector Open Source Color Picker, originally by KOY Software.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. Pickard icon
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    Pickard is an open source color selection tool, licensed under the GNU General Public License, that has many features of the color pickers you can find in high-level image processing applications (like Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro or GIMP), its features includes:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. Visual Color Picker is very easy to use and powerful RGB-HSV-HSL-CMYK-HEX color selector. The program allows you to easily capture color value from any position of the screen even if program does not have input focus. The program has small screen capture preview area.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Plastiliq PixelPicker is a useful color picker tool that gets the pixels color under your mouse pointer on the screen and translates it into a number of different color formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. ColorPro icon
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    Use ColorPro to create and organize palletes of colors, and change the palette of colors in your HTML webpage simply by clicking

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    MouseZoom is a nice but small utility. It zooms the current mouse position (50x) and show the color value and the absolute + relative position of the point where the mouse is.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. PK's Color Picker is a lightweight freebie application that allows you to pick any color from the desktop screen and get the RGB values.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Hopefully, the last desktop color picker you will ever need. For developers/graphic designers, having simple and easy tools is essential. Created out of necessities, Color Pickin' is that kind of tool: simple, no fluff, just works.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Pick single or multiple pixel colors anywhere on your screen in more than 25 formats! Convert colors from one color space to another. Automatically generate color variations for the colors you pick. Built-in screen magnifier simplifies color picking.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Color Grabber 2.0 is a little Color-Picker-Tool for webdesigners for grabbing color codes (like HTML-Hex, RGB etc.) from the desktop!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. ColorAid icon
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    ColorAid is a color picker and highlighter, which can be especially useful for the color blind. It lets you point a color on an image (either loaded from file or captured from the screen), and highlights all the areas of the image having that color (or a similar one, according...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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