# Pastel — Beautiful color palettes

> App for capturing, organizing, and using color palettes in creative projects. (iPhone/iPad app by Steven Troughton-Smith.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pastel/id413897608 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Steven Troughton-Smith](https://appshunter.io/developer/286133549)
- Category: Developer Tools, Graphics & Design
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.70/5 from 1,423 App Store ratings · 163 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 9 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2020-06-08
- Data updated: 2026-08-30
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pastel/id413897608/reviews.md

## What is Pastel?

Capture and collect color palettes with Pastel!

Pastel is an app for amateur developers & artists (like us!) that lets you build up a library of color palettes to use in your projects.

With drag & drop on iPad, drag colors out into other apps that support dropped colors, like Pages and Keynote, or many third-party apps from your favorite developers, so you can use your Pastel library as your master color collection across apps.

Seamlessly sync your library across devices with iCloud.

Analyze photos from the photo library or from Files to determine their dominant colors — choosing specific colors manually if you wish — and save their color palettes to Pastel.

Includes a variety of color pickers, like wheel, RGB sliders, and crayons, or pick named colors from your color library that you curate yourself. On iPad, drag and drop from the sidebar to any palette.

Copy a variety of developer-focused code representations, like RGB, hex, Objective-C, Swift and SwiftUI. Paste hex codes into the sliders color picker.

Copy a pixel bitmap representation of a palette to paste into your favorite pixel editor, share a screen-sized version to set as your wallpaper or Apple Watch face, or export a palette to Procreate®.

Create beautiful, colorful wallpapers in various different 2D & 3D styles using Pastel's wallpaper creator.

In the free version, try out the built-in library, and add your own palettes up to a limit of 8 items total. Upgrade to the unlimited version using in-app purchase.

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## Key features

- Capture color palettes from photos
- Manual color selection
- Drag and drop colors to other apps
- iCloud sync across devices
- Export colors in code formats (RGB, hex, Swift)
- Create custom wallpapers

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pastel (One Month) | $1.99 | per month |
| Pastel (One Year) | $9.99 | per year |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pastel (Legacy Purchase) | $19.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Pastel?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 👍 Intuitive and clean interface
- 🚀 Efficient color management
- 💡 Ability to import colors from photos
- 🎨 Great for designers and artists
- 📦 Seamless integration with Procreate

**Cons**

- 🐛 Disappearing custom palettes
- 🔍 Lack of color picker functionality
- 🤔 Confusing widget behavior
- 🔀 Issues with rearranging colors in palettes

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Palettes disappearing after OS updates
- Delays and freezes when using color wheel
- Inconsistent behavior on different devices/OSes

**Most requested features**

- Color contrast analysis tools
- CMYK color support
- Easier way to copy/paste color codes
- Improved palette organization and management
- Integration with more design apps

## Recent user reviews (10 of 163)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pastel/id413897608/reviews.md

### 2/5 — Considering..

*2026-06-17, version 2.6*

I’m still new to the app and might be overlooking it. Does the app not allow to add more than 2 collections?

### 2/5 — Ridiculous pricing model

*2026-05-25, version 2.6*

The app has been ruined by the removal of features that were free. Now you have to subscribe for £9.99 a year in order to use more than a limited number of pallets. Of all the apps to have a subscription with, this is one of the more pointless. They should have just made the app a one-time purchase, and even then made it just £3.99 or something.

### 5/5 — Importing

*2026-03-19*

I get an exporting error when I try to import an image and it tells me I do not have permission for this image, even if I took the image myself from my camera.

### 5/5 — thankful letter

*2026-01-22, version 2.4.2*

this game is so fun the owner of this give a roundofapplause

### 2/5 — Uhh the iPhone version of collection.

*2026-01-13, version 2.4.1*

I can’t seem to create a collection on my phone it’s really weird…

### 5/5 — THE tool!

*2025-07-01*

Best tool for color management!

### 5/5 — Absolutely Beautiful

*2025-03-20, version 2.3.7*

Perfect Colors!

### 5/5 — Super cool

*2024-12-03*

Je m'en sers très souvent et il s'intègre facilement à mon environnement de travail, 
Merci !

### 5/5 — Every. Single. Day.

*2024-09-25, version 2.3.5*

This app is there for me and I use it to keep my company’s color palette close at hand.

### 1/5 — Is this app a scam?

*2024-09-18, version 2.3.6*

No introductions or links to same. Unusable in my opinion. Negative reviews are the most recent date,but listed after much older reviews.

## Frequently asked questions about Pastel

### What does Pastel do?

Pastel allows you to capture and collect color palettes for your creative projects. You can analyze photos to extract dominant colors, manually select colors, and organize them into a library. The app also supports exporting colors in various code formats and creating custom wallpapers.

### What are the key features of Pastel?

Key features include capturing color palettes from photos, manual color selection with various pickers, drag-and-drop functionality to other apps, iCloud synchronization across devices, exporting colors in developer-friendly code formats, and a wallpaper creator.

### How much does Pastel cost?

Pastel offers a free version with a limit of 8 color palettes. Users can upgrade to an unlimited version through an in-app purchase to create and store an extensive library of color palettes.

### What devices is Pastel compatible with?

Pastel is designed for Apple devices, including iPhones and iPads. It leverages features like drag-and-drop specifically on iPads and utilizes iCloud for seamless syncing across your Apple ecosystem.

### How can I use the color palettes I create in Pastel?

You can use the collected color palettes in various ways. Colors can be dragged and dropped into other apps that support this feature, exported in code representations like hex or Swift for development, or used to create custom wallpapers and Apple Watch faces.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.6 — 2026-04-20

• The Quick Add Color panel now has a new look
• Color creation flow has been clarified and improved
• Fixes an issue at color creation where a palette could end up with duplicated references
• Improvements to save and sync

### 2.5.1 — 2026-03-19

• Improvements to wording and clarity in the purchase screens

### 2.5 — 2026-03-18

• Improvements to the undo/redo system
• Fixes missing rounded corners in the color picker tab bar
• Fixes a number of issues on iOS 18 and earlier

### 2.4.4 — 2026-02-16

• You can now zoom the image view when picking colors from an image

### 2.4.1 — 2025-09-21

• Fixes a potential crash when dragging a color into an empty palette

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