System Color Picker Alternatives

Apps similar to System Color Picker include Coloraccy, which is free. Other options are gpick, Just Color Picker, Realtime Colors and Sip. Color Picker Tools like System Color Picker are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Mac, the web, Linux and iPhone.

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  1. Grab single or multiple pixel colors anywhere on your screen in more than 50 different formats. Convert colors between any of the 17 color models like RGB, HSL, Lab, LCH, XYZ. Choose from over 100 color variations: invert, contrast, warmer, darker...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2015

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  2. "La Boîte à couleurs" is a freeware for Windows written by Benjamin Chartier. It gives you a set of usefull tools to pick, convert and modify colors. Supported color models are:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2011

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  3. Hopefully, the last desktop color picker you will ever need. For developers/graphic designers, having simple and easy tools is essential. Created out of necessities, Color Pickin' is that kind of tool: simple, no fluff, just works.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2022

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  4. Color Grabber 2.0 is a little Color-Picker-Tool for webdesigners for grabbing color codes (like HTML-Hex, RGB etc.) from the desktop!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2016

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  5. imagecolorpicker.com aims to find a color code on an image faster than launching a software on your computer. The color picker also offers more information about the color.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2021

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  6. ColorAid icon
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    ColorAid is a color picker and highlighter, which can be especially useful for the color blind. It lets you point a color on an image (either loaded from file or captured from the screen), and highlights all the areas of the image having that color (or a similar one, according...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2014

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  7. ColorWell icon
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    A handy addition to any web-developer's toolbox - ColorWell provides instant access to the Mac OS X Color Wheel from your system menu bar.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2015

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2024

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  9. Eye Dropper allows you to pick color from pallete, by HSV value, RGB value, hex code and a small set of predefined colors.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2021

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
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  10. ImageHues icon
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    Natural, fresh color palettes from random beautiful images. ImageHues provides a practically endless library of color palettes by grabbing colors from Unsplash photos. Simply click on colors from the extracted palettes to copy to your clipboard for use elsewhere.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Since

    • Since 2019

    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. Open collection of color spaces: one minimal API, verified formulas, conventional ranges, zero dependencies. Covers 162 spaces from sRGB, Display P3 and Rec. 2020 through OKLCH, CIELAB, camera log formats and appearance models like CAM16. Backends: JS, WASM, GLSL/WGSL, LUT (.

    Cost / License

    Since

    • Since 2026

    Platforms

    • Online
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  12. A simple color picker for elementary OS.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Since

    • Since 2025

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • elementary OS
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