# ColorU: Colors with Stories — Palette, Picker & Daily Color

> Palette, Picker & Daily Color (iPhone/iPad app by Liang Kang.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/coloru-colors-with-stories/id6759275211 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Liang Kang](https://appshunter.io/developer/1877822359)
- Category: Utilities, Graphics & Design
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18 · 13 MB
- Languages: American English, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-03-05
- Data updated: 2026-08-16
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/coloru-colors-with-stories/id6759275211/reviews.md

## What is ColorU?

Every color has a name and a story.

Not a cold #C41E3A, but "Rouge" — extracted from safflower, worn as lip color since the Han dynasty.

ColorU brings you 57 curated libraries and 580+ colors with real heritage: Chinese and Japanese traditional colors, imperial dynasties, ukiyo-e, Morandi, and the palettes of Van Gogh and Monet — each with a name, a meaning, and an origin.

COLOR OF THE DAY
Meet a new color with a story every day. It syncs to a home-screen widget, and you can browse past days.

PAIRINGS THAT TELL A STORY
Recommendations are real, named library colors — not bare hex. Generate a full scheme, lock the colors you love, and reshuffle the rest.

CAPTURE FROM LIFE
Extract colors from any photo or your camera into a palette.

TOOLS YOU CAN READ
WCAG contrast checks and live color-blindness simulation help you build palettes that look good and work for everyone.

COLORU PRO
Enjoy the daily color, the full cultural library with stories, and core capture and favorites for free. Upgrade to Pro for color projects & design tokens, code export (CSS/Swift/JSON/ASE), the contrast matrix, saving & exporting schemes, unlimited AI palettes, and watermark-free share cards.

ColorU Pro offers yearly and monthly subscriptions plus a lifetime unlock. Subscriptions renew automatically; cancel anytime in App Store settings.

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://coloru.zoro.dev/privacy

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Buy a Coffee | $0.99 | one-time |
| Buy a Nice Meal | $3.99 | one-time |
| Buy a Cake | $1.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.0 — 2026-08-11

The new "colors with stories" experience:

· Color of the Day — a cultural color with its name, meaning, and origin every day, with a home-screen widget and history.
· Storytelling pairings — recommendations are now named library colors, with color-locking and one-tap full schemes.
· Hundreds of colors gained cultural stories: Oriental, Japanese, Morandi, Van Gogh, Monet, and more.
· New ColorU Pro — unlock projects/design tokens, code export, the contrast matrix, unlimited AI palettes, and watermark-free share cards.
· Refined interface, navigation, and share cards.

### 0.9 — 2026-06-16

Improved reliability and performance across photo palettes and favorites.

-Faster photo palette browsing with smarter thumbnail caching.
-More accurate photo palette search across names, notes, and colors.
-Better handling of palette saving, editing, and duplicate detection.
-Improved recovery when local data fails to load.
-More reliable favorite sorting, restoring, and persistence.

### 0.8 — 2026-03-13

Added smarter generated palette suggestions and auto-fill support.
Improved favorites interactions and polished layout details across the app.

### 0.7 — 2026-03-05

No release notes.

## More apps by Liang Kang

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All apps by Liang Kang: https://appshunter.io/developer/1877822359

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-16.*