Pixie Alternatives

Pixie is described as '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' and is a Color Picker tool in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Pixie for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best Pixie alternative is ShareX, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pixie are PicPick, Just Color Picker, Realtime Colors and gpick.

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  1. 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.

    86 ColorPic alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. ColorSlurp icon
     3 likes

    ColorSlurp is the ultimate color tool for developers and designers. Pick any color on your screen using the high-precision magnifier. Create and edit colors using advanced selection and editing tools. Organize colors into collections.

    83 ColorSlurp alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  3. Coulr icon
     Like

    Color box to help developers and designers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  4. Color Cop icon
     22 likes

    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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  5. Pixel Pick icon
     6 likes

    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 .

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. Colora icon
     12 likes

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. ColorMania icon
     14 likes

    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.

    90 ColorMania alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. 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
     
  9. ColorKeep icon
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    ColorKeep is a lightweight, powerful clipboard companion that ensures you never lose track of your colors again. Designed for professionals who work with color daily, this app silently captures HEX codes from your clipboard and maintains them in an easily accessible list.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  10. Eyedropper icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  11. 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
     
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