# Daub — Color Journal — A color journal, card by card

> A color journal, card by card (iPhone/iPad app by Doyoon Kim.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/daub-color-journal/id6809702544 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Doyoon Kim](https://appshunter.io/developer/6809702546)
- Category: Graphics & Design, Photo & Video
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 29 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-13
- Data updated: 2026-10-13
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/daub-color-journal/id6809702544/reviews.md

## What is Daub?

A color journal for the colors you notice. Tap any color in a photo and it gets a name; keep it as a card, and see how to mix it from the paints you own.

• 11,000+ color names, matched the way the eye sees (with HEX, RGB and CMYK)
• Reads the wide (Display P3) colors your iPhone captures
• Recipes from your own paints (or start with 12 watercolor basics), for paper or for screen
• A diary of colors and feelings: one tap for how the day feels
• A 5-color palette from the whole photo
• Color combinations from Sanzo Wada's Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933)
• A live camera that names colors as you move
• One-tap light check for lamp light and shade
• Your colors kept by month, with a calendar that fills with them, collections and a home-screen widget
• Five cards to share: Instant, Film, Chip, Block and Receipt — story-ready, or the card alone, with short videos

Daub Pro: every card and finish, your signature on cards, unlimited recipes and colors, Painter's eye (your-paints view, value steps, color vision), the paint library, and Procreate/Adobe export.
Monthly, yearly (with a 2-week free trial) or once for life.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 4.0 — 2026-10-08

Daub 4.0 — our biggest update yet.

• Five new cards. Instant, set in real photo scenes. Film, a matte titanium card in wallet size that spins. Chip, a paper chip with stickers. Block, with sunlight moving across it. Receipt, a thermal print with a photo booth strip.
• 11,000+ color names, matched the way the eye sees.
• Extra-vivid colors: Daub now reads the wide (Display P3) colors your iPhone captures — in photos, palettes and the live camera.
• Light check: when a photo has warm lamp light or blue shade, fix it with one tap.
• Color combinations from Sanzo Wada's Dictionary of Colour Combinations (1933), as posters, right under every color you pick.
• One camera: point it at anything and the name changes as you move. Take it, and it becomes your card.
• New tabs: Home, Cards, ＋, Paints, Me.
• Card only: save just the card, ready for your story.
• A diary in color: note how the day feels with one tap when you keep a color. Your month shows your colors and your feelings, side by side. Wednesdays bring a feelings prompt.
• Painter's eye: see any photo in only your paints (tap to read the mix), as values (grey, 5, 3, 2 steps), or through other color vision.
• Clearer and kinder: simpler words, a four-step tour with tips where you need them, and "how to mix it" for any color you copy. Recipes now come for paper or for screen.
• Saved cards now follow your language.

### 2.1 — 2026-09-30

Daub 2.1

• Twelve month cards: each month wears its own design. Save this month's card for free, or pick any of the twelve with Pro.
• Look of the Day: find Today's color and this month's card style is yours free until midnight.
• iCloud backup: your Book backs itself up to your own iCloud. Delete the app and it all comes back.
• Today's color answers no longer count toward the free Book's 20 colors.
• No Today's color reminder on days you've already answered.
• Pigment codes now come back when you restore a backup.

### 2.0 — 2026-09-29

Daub 2.0

• Home-screen widget: today's color prompt and your week in color, right on your home screen.
• Find colors live: point your camera at anything and watch its color get named as you move.
• Collections: group your colors across months, like "Autumn wardrobe" or "Studio wall". Each one opens as a board for the piece: your notes, its colors, the paints it needs, and palette export.
• Week card: every Sunday-to-Saturday of colors in one free card.
• Goes with: three matching colors under every color you pick.
• Paint library (Pro): add your tubes by the pigment code on the label (PB29, PY43…) or from Winsor & Newton, Daniel Smith and Golden lines. When your paints can't reach a color, Daub names the one tube that gets you closer.
• Truer color under any light: white paper or a grey card (Pro) corrects the whole photo, and Pro keeps that light for your next photos.
• Study (Pro): see any photo as 2, 3 or 5 values, in only the paints you own (with the mixes to prepare), or through color-weak eyes. Grid, mirror and squint included.
• Export palettes to Procreate and Adobe (Pro).
• Back up your whole Book to Files or iCloud Drive, and bring it back any time.
• Cards now develop like an instant print, and a quiet "tok-ding" plays when you keep or share (turn it off in Settings).
• Now in Japanese.

### 1.4 — 2026-09-28

Daub 1.4 is our biggest update yet.

• Video cards: pick a short clip, choose your 6 seconds, and share it as a moving card.
• Cards take your photo's shape: nothing gets cropped. Choose Fit, or 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 and 2:3.
• Keep and Make a card now live together, and your card title starts as the color's name.
• A new Monthly plan alongside Yearly and Lifetime.
• Many small fixes and polish throughout.

### 1.2 — 2026-09-24

Daub 1.2 is all about the cards.

• Five new cards, each made to look like something you could hold: Instant, Film, Fan, Ticket and Receipt.
• Every card now comes in white or black paper, whatever your phone's theme.
• Drag the photo inside a card to frame it exactly how you want.
• Today's Color: one prompt a day, the same for everyone. Answer it and the prompt is written on your card.
• Flick through your book as a deck of cards.
• A new first run: pick a favorite photo and see everything Daub can do with it.
• Chip, Stack, Ink and Ground have been retired. Every color you kept is still in your book.

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