Color Pickin' AlternativesColor Picker Tools and other similar apps like Color Pickin'

Color Pickin' is described as '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' and is a Color Picker tool in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Color Pickin' for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Web-based, Linux and Flathub apps. The best Color Pickin' alternative is Just Color Picker, which is free. Other great apps like Color Pickin' are gpick, Realtime Colors, Instant Eyedropper and Sip.

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    Just Color Picker is a tool that captures the colour of any pixel in any screen area and displays its code in a variety of formats.

    93 Just Color Picker alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
    • Just Color Picker is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to Color Pickin'.

    • Just Color Picker is the most popular free alternative to Color Pickin'.

    • Just Color Picker is Free and ProprietaryColor Pickin' is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. gpick icon
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    A color picker and color scheme creation tool.

    94 gpick alternatives

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    • Linux
     
    • gpick is the most popular Linux alternative to Color Pickin'.

    • gpick is the most popular Open Source alternative to Color Pickin'.

    • gpick is Free and Open SourceColor Pickin' is Freemium and Proprietary
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    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.

    69 Realtime Colors alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Figma
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Realtime Colors is the most popular Web-based & SaaS alternative to Color Pickin'.

    • Realtime Colors is Free and ProprietaryColor Pickin' is Freemium and Proprietary
  4. 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!.

    78 Sip alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
    • Sip is the most popular commercial alternative to Color Pickin'.

    • Sip is Paid and ProprietaryColor Pickin' is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. Pixie icon
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    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.

    79 Pixie alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. 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.

    60 Eyedropper alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  7. 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

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  8. Pika icon
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    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)

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    • Mac
     
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    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

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
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