Best ChromaMagic alternatives: apps like ChromaMagic

10+ similar apps compared and reviewed

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7 free apps
Updated November 2026

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

Values at Play#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.

Color Study: Simplify Painting#2

Color Study: Simplify Painting by BrushLabs LLC

Simplify color, value & shape
Strong Contender
🎨 Graphics & Design
4.9(576 ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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This tool helps artists analyze images by simplifying colors, values, and shapes. It provides guidance for mixing paints to match observed colors and offers advanced features for deeper artistic study. Organize your work and sync across devices.

Real Paint mixing tools PRO#3

Real Paint mixing tools PRO by AI4res srl

paint mixing recipes made easy
Worth Considering
🎨 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.

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Value Study: art reference
Value Study: art reference
Value Study: art reference
Drawing Grid & Simplify Shapes
Free

This app helps artists improve their drawing and painting skills by simplifying reference images into greyscale tones. It allows users to break down complex images into distinct value levels, making it easier to understand light, shadow, and form.

Simplify images into greyscale tonesAdjustable number of value levelsHighlight areas of the same value
🎨 Graphics & Design
(3.4K)
free with in-app purchases
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Smarty Paints
Smarty Paints
Smarty Paints
Know Your Watercolors
Free

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
(49)
freemium
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Camera Lucida™: AR Drawing
Camera Lucida™: AR Drawing
Camera Lucida™: AR Drawing
Masterful drawing in minutes!
$14.99

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
(2K)
paid
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Real Paint mixing tools
Real Paint mixing tools
Real Paint mixing tools
paint mixing recipes made easy
$12.99

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
(19)
paid
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BrushLens: Oil Paint Mixing
BrushLens: Oil Paint Mixing
BrushLens: Oil Paint Mixing
Color recipes from your tubes
Free

This app helps oil painters achieve accurate color mixes by analyzing reference photos and providing precise recipes based on the user's own paint tubes. It offers tools for planning compositions, checking proportions against a painting, and generating printable charts.

Mixing recipes from user's paint tubesBase mix functionalityValue, saturation, and temperature analysis
🎨 Graphics & Design
(6)
freemium
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Painter Values Check
Painter Values Check
Painter Values Check
Check darks and lights
Free

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
(37)
ad-supported
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Color Wheel
Color Wheel
Color Wheel
Palette Maker & Color Picker
$3.99

This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for artists and designers, featuring various color wheels, a color picker from camera or images, and tools for analyzing color combinations, contrast, and light effects. It aids in pigment mixing and value checking, making it useful for both beginners and professionals.

Multiple color wheel types (digital, classic, abstract)Color picker from camera and imagesAR Stencil for proportion marking
🎨 Graphics & Design
(1.1K)
paid