What The Hex? AlternativesColor Picker Tools and other similar apps like What The Hex?

What The Hex? is described as 'Free and open-source colour picking tool, just like the eyedrop tool in image editors such as GIMP. But unlike those editors, What The Hex? is designed to provide you with the Hex or RGB information you're looking for in the fastest way possible' and is a Color Picker tool in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to What The Hex? for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and Web-based apps. The best What The Hex? alternative is gpick, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like What The Hex? are Instant Eyedropper, Pixie, ColorKeep and System Color Picker.

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  1. gpick icon
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    A color picker and color scheme creation tool.

    92 gpick alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
    • gpick is the most popular Linux alternative to What The Hex?.

    • gpick is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to What The Hex?.

    • gpick is Free and Open SourceWhat The Hex? is also Free and Open Source
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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.

    85 Instant Eyedropper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Instant Eyedropper is the most popular Windows alternative to What The Hex?.

    • Instant Eyedropper is Free and Open SourceWhat The Hex? is also Free and Open Source
  3. 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.

    78 Pixie alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. 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

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    Platforms

    • Mac
     
    • ColorKeep is the most popular Mac alternative to What The Hex?.

    • ColorKeep is the most popular commercial alternative to What The Hex?.

    • ColorKeep is Paid and ProprietaryWhat The Hex? is Free and Open Source
    • ColorKeep is Lightweight and Privacy focusedWhat The Hex? is not according to our users
  5. Coulr icon
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    Color box to help developers and designers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  6. 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

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. 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.

    76 Color Cop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Pixel Pick icon
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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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. ColorPic icon
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    Ever tried using a color picker on a high resolution monitor? Its impossible. Thats why this color picker has a magnifier attached. Grab palettes of up to 16 colors at once and use four advanced color mixers to select a spectrum of possibilities.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. Pipette icon
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    With the pipette you are able to edit, convert and pick up colors from your screen. Pipette also supports a lot of standards or color models (RGB, CMY, CMYK, HSV, TColor and XYZ0). Color models are nothing but theoretical descriptions of colors using certain numeric values.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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