



Pixie is not available for Linux but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is gpick, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Pixie and 13 are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Pixie are Colorpicker Desktop App, Eyedropper, Coulr and gcolor2.




Colorpicker is a clean, easy to use, yet efficient desktop application for color management. Pick any color on your screen with Colorpicker.




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.






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.

A cross-platform color picker. Select any color from screen, manage palettes, convert colors, etc.




Bella is a simple eye dropper and color picker. You can pick color from the screen and save it in any color format.





Pick a color from anywhere on your screen and save it in one of the common color formats.



