Best ChromaMagic alternatives: apps like ChromaMagic

10+ similar apps compared and reviewed

4.4 avg rating

7 free apps

Updated October 2026

Michele Clamp

📷 Photo & Video

🎨 Graphics & Design

ChromaMagic is great, but it's not the only option. Explore 10+ similar apps for iPhone and iPad, each reviewed and rated by real users. Find free alternatives, premium upgrades, and hidden gems.

Top Alternatives to ChromaMagic

#1

Values at Play by Neil Daly

Seeing Values in Art

Editor's Choice

🎨 Graphics & Design

5.0(6 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

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This app helps users practice identifying and analyzing values in art. It offers tools to create value studies, inspect specific color values, and find areas matching a chosen value. Users can import their own images for practice.

#2

Real Paint mixing tools PRO by AI4res srl

paint mixing recipes made easy

Strong Contender

🎨 Graphics & Design

4.9(30 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

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This tool helps painters calculate precise paint mixing recipes from their own images. It supports numerous commercial paint brands and color spaces, aiding art students and professionals. Reduce wasted paint, time, and money with accurate color matching.

#3

Color Study: Simplify Painting by BrushLabs LLC

Simplify color, value & shape

Worth Considering

🎨 Graphics & Design

4.9(512 ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

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This app helps artists simplify images into essential shapes and colors for study. It provides tools for accurate color matching, paint mixing guidance, and detailed analysis of value, saturation, and color codes. Advanced features for deeper analysis and paint mixing are available via subscription.

More apps like ChromaMagic

Value Study: art reference

Value Study: art reference

Value Study: art reference

Analyze light and shadow

This app helps artists improve their skills by analyzing light and shadow in reference images. It allows users to break down tones step-by-step, from simple black and white to more complex value ranges, aiding in the understanding of depth and form. It's a tool to enhance traditional art studies.

Step-by-step tone breakdownHighlighting areas of same valueFocus on light, shadow, and form

🎨 Graphics & Design

free with in-app purchases

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Camera Lucida™: AR Drawing

Camera Lucida™: AR Drawing

Camera Lucida™: AR Drawing

Masterful drawing in minutes!

This app uses your device's camera to superimpose a reference image onto your drawing surface, guiding your hand to create detailed art. It offers advanced features and tools to enhance your sketching and painting skills, making art creation easy and fun.

AR image superposition for drawingAdvanced image filtersZoom lock for detail

🎨 Graphics & Design

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Know Your Watercolors

This app helps watercolor artists manage their paint collections, find substitute colors, and match tutorial supplies. It simplifies tracking what you own, identifying dupes, and ensuring your paints align with class or tutorial requirements.

Track watercolor paint collectionsFind close-enough paint dupesMatch tutorial supplies to your stash

🎨 Graphics & Design

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Real Paint mixing tools

Real Paint mixing tools

Real Paint mixing tools

paint mixing recipes made easy

This app helps painters compute opaque paint mixing recipes from images for various commercial brands. It supports multiple color spaces and offers different mixing strategies for precise color creation, reducing paint waste.

Compute paint mixing recipes from imagesSupports multiple commercial paint brandsIncludes various color spaces (sRGB, CMYK, Lab, etc.)

🎨 Graphics & Design

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ArtRage Vitae Mobile Painting

ArtRage Vitae Mobile Painting

ArtRage Vitae Mobile Painting

Paint realistic on canvas

This app offers a realistic digital painting experience with natural color blending and mixing. It simulates the properties of real artistic media like oil paints and watercolors, allowing for detailed texture and shading. Supports advanced features like layers, importing images, and Apple Pencil integration.

Realistic oil and watercolor simulationLayer support with blend modesImport and trace images

🎨 Graphics & Design

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Painter Values Check

Painter Values Check

Painter Values Check

Check darks and lights

Analyze the lightness and darkness of colors in your artwork or images in real-time using your device's camera. It generates simplified versions to help you assess contrast and focal points, and allows exporting results.

Real-time value checking via cameraAnalyze imported imagesGenerate simplified value versions

🎨 Graphics & Design

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PalettePro – Oil Paint Mixing

PalettePro – Oil Paint Mixing

PalettePro – Oil Paint Mixing

Match Colors From Any Photo

This tool helps oil painters accurately match and mix colors from reference images. It provides step-by-step mixing recipes, generates color palettes, and includes tools for value and tonal analysis to improve painting accuracy.

Color picker from reference imagesAccurate oil paint color matchingStep-by-step color mixing recipes

🎨 Graphics & Design

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