# Is it the same color — Compare colours from photos

> Compare colours from photos (iPhone/iPad app by Steven Kok.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/is-it-the-same-color/id6808987116 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Steven Kok](https://appshunter.io/developer/6808987118)
- Category: Photo & Video, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 2 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-26
- Data updated: 2026-10-06
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/is-it-the-same-color/id6808987116/reviews.md

## What is Is it the same color?

Photograph a surface. Pick the exact spot you care about. Photograph another
one later — a different wall, a different day, a tin of paint in a shop — and
pick a spot in that one too. The app tells you how close they really
are, as a plain percentage, not a guess by eye.

WHAT IT MEASURES

The colour difference is CIEDE2000 (ΔE00), the standard perceptual colour
formula — not a naive RGB distance, which disagrees with what your eyes see
on saturated colours. Alongside the percentage you get the plain-language
verdict and the signed Lab deltas, so you can see how two colours differ:
lighter, more muted, or a genuine shift in hue.

A phone camera is not a spectrophotometer, and this app does not pretend
otherwise. What it does about that:

- Mark a white reference — a sheet of paper, a grey card — in both photos,
  and the app works out what each light was doing and takes it off both
  before comparing. This is the one thing that makes two photos from two
  places actually comparable, and the app can find a good candidate for you.
- ProRAW is used automatically wherever your phone supports it, with the
  camera's own scene-dependent tone curve switched off — the same surface
  against a light background and a dark one should measure the same, and
  with ordinary photos it often does not.
- Capture settings are recorded with every photo, and Compare tells you when
  two shots were taken under meaningfully different light, or when a patch
  is blown out, too dark, or straddling an edge — before it lets a number
  near you.

THREE SCREENS

Capture — live preview, a centre reticle with a live readout so you can
watch the colour settle before you shoot, one-tap shutter.

Library — everything you have shot, plus anything imported from Photos.
Tap any photo to read its exact colour: hex, RGB, HSV, Lab, chroma, hue.

Compare — pick two photos, or the same photo twice, and pick a spot in
each. Comparisons save themselves and reopen later. Share a result as a
card image, a line of text, or a CSV row; the whole history exports as one
spreadsheet.

WHO THIS IS FOR

Matching paint. Checking whether a replacement part is really the same
colour. Settling an argument about whether two whites are the same white.
Anyone who has stood in a shop holding a phone photo of their wall,
wondering if the tin in front of them is close enough.

PRIVACY

Nothing leaves your phone. No account, no analytics, no server — the app
has nothing to send anywhere and asks for nothing but the camera and, only
if you choose to import a photo, your photo library.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-03

Fixes the app's name in the listing description.

### 1.0 — 2026-09-25

No release notes.

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