DigitalColor Meter Alternatives

DigitalColor Meter is described as 'Utility built into Mac OS X for measuring and displaying the colour values of pixels displayed on the screen' and is an app in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to DigitalColor Meter for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Web-based apps. The best DigitalColor Meter alternative is gpick, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like DigitalColor Meter are Realtime Colors, Just Color Picker, Instant Eyedropper and Pixie.

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DigitalColor Meter is a utility built into Mac OS X for measuring and displaying the colour values of pixels displayed on...

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DigitalColor Meter alternatives page was last updated Jan 17, 2025
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    KDE Plasma color picker widget for the system tray.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  No Tracking
    2.  No registration required
    3.  Works Offline
    4.  Dark Mode
    5.  Ad-free
    6. KDE Plasma icon  KDE Plasma integration
    7.  KDE Widget
    8.  Sits in the System Tray

    Color Picker Tray VS DigitalColor Meter

     
  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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
    Discontinued

    It was last updated in 2013.

    gcolor2 Features

    1.  Color Palette

    gcolor2 VS DigitalColor Meter

     
  3. 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.

    75 Color Cop alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    The project isn't being developed anymore. Last commit was from 25 Sep 2015.

    Color Cop Features

    1.  Color Palette

    Color Cop VS DigitalColor Meter

     
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    A color picker for the COSMIC desktop.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak

    Properties

    1.  Privacy focused

    Features

    1.  No registration required
    2.  Support for CMYK Mode
    3.  Dark Mode
    4.  Ad-free
    5.  Works Offline
    6.  No Tracking
    7. COSMIC icon  COSMIC integration

    Color Picker for COSMIC VS DigitalColor Meter

     
  5. 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 .

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Picker

    Pixel Pick VS DigitalColor Meter

     
  6. ColorPad icon
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    A very lighweight yet powerful color picking tool. Skin support.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Discontinued

    The official website is no longer available. Last version, 2.7, released on 2008, can be still downloaded from Wayback Machine.

    ColorPad Features

    1.  Portable

    ColorPad VS DigitalColor Meter

     
  7. 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.

    84 ColorPic alternatives

    License model

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows

    ColorPic Features

    1.  Picker

    ColorPic VS DigitalColor Meter

     
  8. 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.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Colora Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Color Palette

    Colora VS DigitalColor Meter

     
  9. 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.

    86 ColorMania alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • NL flagNetherlands
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows

    ColorMania Features

    1.  Picker

    ColorMania VS DigitalColor Meter

     
  10. Loupe icon
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    Loupe provides a magnified view of what’s on-screen under your mouse cursor?—?designed from the start to be easy on your computer while also being feature rich. Whether you’re a graphic designer needing to inspect artwork, or a developer trying to align UI elements, Loupe can...

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Loupe Features

    1.  Color Palette

    Loupe VS DigitalColor Meter

     
  11. Pipette icon
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    With the pipette you are able to edit, convert and pick up colors from your screen. Pipette also supports a lot of standards or color models (RGB, CMY, CMYK, HSV, TColor and XYZ0). Color models are nothing but theoretical descriptions of colors using certain numeric values.

    79 Pipette alternatives

    License model

    • Free PersonalProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows

    Pipette Features

    1.  Picker

    Pipette VS DigitalColor Meter

     
  12. Roy icon
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    A tiny & delightful color picker for designers.

    82 Roy alternatives

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac

    Roy VS DigitalColor Meter

     
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