Sip AlternativesColor Picker Tools and other similar apps like Sip

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

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  1. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

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

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

    • Just Color Picker is Free and ProprietarySip is Paid and Proprietary
  2. gpick icon
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    A color picker and color scheme creation tool.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • gpick is the most popular Linux alternative to Sip.

    • gpick is the most popular Open Source alternative to Sip.

    • gpick is Free and Open SourceSip is Paid and Proprietary
  3. 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.

    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 Sip.

    • Realtime Colors is Free and ProprietarySip is Paid and Proprietary
    • Realtime Colors is LightweightSip is not according to our users
  4. 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
     
  5. Pixie icon
     43 likes

    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. 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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • 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

    Application type

    Platforms

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

    • ColorKeep is Paid and ProprietarySip is also Paid and Proprietary
    • ColorKeep is Lightweight and Privacy focusedSip is not according to our users
  8. Pika icon
     7 likes

    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
     
  9. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Coulr icon
     Like

    Color box to help developers and designers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  11. gcolor2 icon
     23 likes

    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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