LifeDropper AlternativesColor Picker Tools and other similar apps like LifeDropper

LifeDropper is described as 'Is point and shoot colour analysis for graphic designers, interior designers, artists, and everyone in between' and is a Color Picker tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to LifeDropper for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPhone, Linux and Web-based apps. The best LifeDropper alternative is Just Color Picker, which is free. Other great apps like LifeDropper are Realtime Colors, Instant Eyedropper, Sip and Pixie.

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

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

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

    • Just Color Picker is Free and ProprietaryLifeDropper is also Free 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 LifeDropper.

    • Realtime Colors is Free and ProprietaryLifeDropper is also Free and Proprietary
    • Realtime Colors is LightweightLifeDropper is not according to our users
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    Instant Eyedropper is a free color detection tool for webmasters that will identify and automatically paste to the clipboard the HTML color code of any pixel on the screen with just a single mouse click.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Instant Eyedropper is the most popular Open Source alternative to LifeDropper.

    • Instant Eyedropper is Free and Open SourceLifeDropper is Free 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • Sip is the most popular commercial alternative to LifeDropper.

    • Sip is Paid and ProprietaryLifeDropper is Free 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. 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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. 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
     
    • gcolor2 is the most popular Linux alternative to LifeDropper.

    • gcolor2 is Free and Open SourceLifeDropper is Free and Proprietary
  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.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. 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.

    77 Color Cop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. 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.

    90 ColorMania alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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