Roy Alternatives

Roy is described as 'A tiny & delightful color picker for designers' and is a Color Picker tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Roy for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and Google Chrome apps. The best Roy alternative is gpick, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Roy are Realtime Colors, Just Color Picker, Instant Eyedropper and Sip.

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A tiny & delightful color picker for designers.

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Roy alternatives page was last updated Jan 17, 2025
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  1. Pika icon

    Pika

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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.

    License model

    • Free Personal • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Pika screenshot 1

    Pika Features

    1.  Built-in Color Picker
    2.  Color Palette

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  2. Free Color Picker icon

    Free Color Picker

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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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application types

    Country of Origin

    • PL flagPoland
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Windows
    The main window

    Free Color Picker Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Built-in Color Picker
    3.  Support for CMYK Mode
    4.  Color Wheel
    5.  Color Palette

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  4. Color Picker Tray icon

    Color Picker Tray

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    KDE Plasma color picker widget for the system tray.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • KDE Plasma
    Color Picker Tray screenshot 1

    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

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  5. gcolor2 icon

    gcolor2

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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

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
    The gcolor2 interface
    Discontinued

    It was last updated in 2013.

    gcolor2 Features

    1.  Color Palette

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  6. Hexee Pro icon

    Hexee Pro

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    Hexee Pro is a set of advanced color tools for designers and artists. With it, you can create, edit, and organize your color palettes, fine-tune colors, generate tints and shades, and check for accessibility. Import and export to various formats. All in a single app.

    License model

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • IT flagItaly
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    Generate color scales

    Hexee Pro Features

    1.  Color Palette
    2.  Export to Photoshop
    3.  Extract color palettes from images
    4.  Accessibility Testing
    5.  Data visualization
    6. Sketch icon  Import from Sketch

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  7. Color Picker for COSMIC icon

    Color Picker for COSMIC

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    A color picker for the COSMIC desktop.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    Color Picker for COSMIC screenshot 1

    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

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  9. Color Cop icon

    Color Cop

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Color Cop screenshot 1
    Discontinued

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

    Color Cop Features

    1.  Color Palette

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  10. Pixel Pick icon

    Pixel Pick

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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 .

    91 Pixel Pick alternatives

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Pixel Pick screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Lightweight

    Features

    1.  Portable
    2.  Picker

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  11. Colorpicker Desktop App icon

    Colorpicker Desktop App

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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • FR flagFrance
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    Colorpicker Desktop App screenshot 1

    Colorpicker Desktop App Features

    1.  Picker
    2.  Color Palette

    Colorpicker Desktop App VS Roy

     
  12. Colormind icon

    Colormind

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    A color palette generator powered by deep learning. Create color schemes intelligently from your starting colors, and extract pleasing colors from photographs.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Country of Origin

    • CN flagChina

    Platforms

    • Online
    Colormind screenshot 1

    Colormind Features

    1.  Color Palette
    2.  Extract color palettes from images

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  13. Zzoom icon

    Zzoom

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    A free screen zoomer, color picker and image grabber, all in one!.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Zzoom screenshot 1

    Zzoom Features

    1.  Portable

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  14. Paletton icon

    Paletton

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    Color Scheme Designer.

    License model

    • Free • Proprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • CZ flagCzechia
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Online
    Paletton screenshot 1

    Paletton Features

    1.  Color Palette

    Paletton VS Roy

     
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