Pywal Alternatives

Pywal is described as 'Tool that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image. It then applies the colors system-wide and on-the-fly in all of your favourite programs' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are six alternatives to Pywal for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Homebrew, GNU Bourne Again SHell and Windows apps. The best Pywal alternative is hellwal, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Pywal are walrs, pywal16, lule and lule_bash.

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  1. hellwal

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    Pywal-like color palette generator, but faster and in C.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Homebrew
    • Nix Package Manager
    • Linux
    • Mac
     

    • hellwal is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Pywal.

    • hellwal is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Pywal.

    • hellwal is Free and Open SourcePywal is also Free and Open Source
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    walrs

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    pywal but if its Fast-Minimal-Simple.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Rust
     
  4. pywal16 icon

    pywal16

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    16 colors fork of pywal.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Python
    • Linux
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    Comments about pywal16 as an Alternative to Pywal
    ngoomie
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    It's essentially a still-maintained version of pywal

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    • pywal16 is Free and Open SourcePywal is also Free and Open Source
  5. lule icon

    lule

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    A command line tool to generate 8bit ANSI colors from wallpaper (an enhanced version of pywal but in rust) There is the old bash version in: https://github.com/warpwm/lule_bash

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    lule screenshot 1
     

    • lule is the most popular Windows alternative to Pywal.

    • lule is Free and Open SourcePywal is also Free and Open Source
  6. lule_bash icon

    lule_bash

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    A bash(y) alternative to Pywal by mostly using pastel to generate the full 255 colors from an image.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • GNU Bourne Again SHell
    • Linux
     

  7. cwal

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    Fast and lightweight command-line tool for generating dynamic color schemes from images. It extracts dominant colors from your chosen image and applies them to your terminal, applications, and other system components, providing a cohesive and visually appealing desktop...

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
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