What Color Is This? User Reviews

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It was the nice subtlety to slide up for other color variations. Literally gasped with satisfaction lol

Big help

I love that it has the polychromos colors I use it on every project

Response from developer

Thank you!

absolutely not

this app is terrible! I tested many colors and it did not give me any of the right ones I even tested black and it said it was not black. That is why I gave it one star.

Response from developer

Thanks for your review

great app, one problem (did not pay for anything)

this app is wonderful because you can just take a picture and it doesn't take up storage, it just tells you what color it is, the hex code, etc. sometimes the color names are inaccurate if you're doing the simple palate, so you have to switch to ntc, but they're usually pretty good! i also really love the fact that you can favorite colors, so i can go through and find nice colors and save them for later!! my biggest problem is that there's only four options for your color, i wish there were a few more, and sometimes it glitches so the random color will show the same thing until you close and reopen the app
i also really like how it will give you different color schemes or shades!
all in all a great app with a couple
improvements!!
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Colors are inaccurate.

Here are some mistakes: Pure red is called “Deep orange”, pure green is called “Light green”, and pure blue is called “Indigo”. What should be Orange is called Amber, what should be spring green is called Teal, real teal that leans slightly towards blue is called Cyan, magenta is called Purple, tan is called orange, some shades of gray (around #E8E8E8) are called brown, dark yellow is called brown, lime, or light green, maroon is called pink or brown, dark purple is called brown, light cyan is called teal, very light cyan is called light blue, different shades of dark amber are sometimes called red or lime, salmon is called deep orange, in other words many of the colors are named inaccurately.

The only two of the 6 main computer monitor colors (red yellow green cyan blue magenta) that says the right thing are Yellow and Cyan.)
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Worth it.

Not spot on but in the same gamut. Used it to get color samples at big box stores.

Does not work

Try to scan a color and the app would not even load the color name or anything.

Frozen

Every time I open this app and click on a color it will freeze for no reason

Very nice but it stopped working

This is a very nice app..at first

I was using this for design project (personal) as a good way to match colours to edit and erase parts of pictures and then using the complimentary colour and lighter and darker suggestions to backgrounds or highlights in some but it’s stopped working it won’t load up any information about the colour anymore :(
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Thanks from a color blind

My whole life I’ve struggled to identify colors due to my colorblindness. I probably should’ve looked for something like this before or written it myself (I’ve been an iPhone user since its first generation), but in any case, when I searched, this app showed up first and does EXACTLY what I wanted and need: tell me what color something is. Plain and simple. Thanks for having a free version of this app. Thanks for helping mitigate a lifetime problem.
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