# Project Color™ The Home Depot — user reviews > 55 indexed App Store user reviews of Project Color™ The Home Depot by The Home Depot, Inc., rated 4.48/5 from 55,933 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/project-color-the-home-depot/id1002417141/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/project-color-the-home-depot/id1002417141.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 43,677 · 4★ 4,771 · 3★ 2,127 · 2★ 1,225 · 1★ 4,076 ## What do users think of Project Color™ The Home Depot? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 💡 Connects to Pinterest - 🎨 Helps visualize color options - 📷 Ability to use own photos **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes - 🎨 Limited color selection - 🎨 Colors don't match physical paint - 🎨 Messy and unrealistic paint application - 🔍 Difficult to navigate and find specific colors **Commonly reported bugs** - Inability to select photos from custom folders - Pinterest integration not working - Eraser tool not functioning properly - Inconsistent performance across devices **Most requested features** - Allow painting of multiple walls - Add ability to see color on cabinets/furniture - Improve color matching accuracy - Provide better instructions and guidance - Add landscape mode support on iPad ## Newest reviews (19 of 55) ### 2/5 — Gives access to all your photos *2023-10-30* There is no way to just select specific photos without then going back to settings section of your phone each time to reselect different photos. You have to give the app access to every photo on your phone, or if you don’t then you have to go out of the app each time and go to settings and allow different photos, then go back to the app. Takes an eternity. Since i dont want to share every photo it makes the app totally unusable. Once you select initial photos within the app you can’t go back and just select new ones, without changing phone settings each time. The Pinterest link just goes to an error page after I log in to Pinterest so that part doesn’t work either. Super bummed because the one picture I was able to upload brought up beautiful paint colors. But I don’t want to share all my photos just to use the app for a few photos. Needs a better option to allow for data privacy and still use the app! I should at least be able to go to the camera section and click “select new photos” or “add photos” or something. It only shows the previous ones with no option to add unless you do it in the phone settings separately then come back to the app. ### 3/5 — Room for improvement *2023-09-22* The colors groups are Amazing!! Once you select a possible color you also get alternative options that are same color but different gradients AND they give you all of the information you need to purchase the color selected. HOWEVER. the section of the app that allows you to take a picture and try the paint on the walls is useless, app crashes immediately. So you do still need to try the paint before you buy to truly see the color in comparison to its surroundings to ensure how the color matches. But with all the colors this app has, it definitely at least narrows it down heavily and I will highly recommend to everyone. ### 3/5 — Helpful with caveats *2023-09-06* It is nice to take a photo of your room and compare various colors to see how they work with your living space. However the coloring in is glitchy so only an approximation as does not allow for fine tuning, ledges gaps or over-paints into lamp shades and ceilings etc. be AWARE the color on your screen is NOT an exact match of the color in the paint. My best advice is to take the color photo of the color you like and visit the store. Compare the screen color to the sample strips at the store. I found that the color I lived on the app did not look the same at the store, but could use the app picture (screen capture) to compare to the strips at the store and find my color. ### 3/5 — Flaky App *2023-08-01* So far, I find the best way to use this app is to import your photo into Photoshop, then use the select tool for an area that you want to match, then use the filter, blur average in order to get the average color across the area. then send the photo to your phone in order to use the app. From this app, you can access the photo and then sample the average area that you created. (and yes, it would make more sense if you could just do that in the app and also if the app did not freeze and lose photos) ### 4/5 — Project color review *2023-02-11, version 2.13* My family and I have been thinking about repainting or living room ever since we moved into new house. My grandma recently told me about an app where you can test to see how certain colors look in your room. After downloading this app I am here to write an honest review. I think this app is the closest that you can get to the concept. But I still feel like I can’t get the whole picture. I feel as though it is hard for me to tell what the difference is between my actually walls and the color on my screen ### 3/5 — Great concept, some minor annoyances *2022-11-22, version 2.13* The app is okay. I was unable to select a photo to use to see how paint would look on the wall. I was only able to take a picture and use that. When trying different paint colors, it doesn’t take you back to the color palette you were just at. It takes you to the top 50 every time and you have to find the color all over every time which is a pain. Just some minor tweaks and it would be great. ### 2/5 — Make it better *2022-05-10, version 2.13* I only gave it 2 stars because it’s more useful than having nothing at all, but really should be 1 star due to difficulty and glitchiness of actually using the app. They try to make it cool by filling in the color on the walls for you with just one tap, but with all the freezing/glitches it ends up being super time consuming to get a result. I ended up taking screenshots every time I chose a color because it was easier to freehand it with the iPhone photo Markup feature. (I was painting a piece of furniture in the room as well and seeing what color combos went well together) ### 3/5 — Limited functionality for a company with so much $ *2022-02-19, version 2.13* Have only been playing with this app for a few minutes and am already disappointed. I’m using an iPhone. 1. Color-in function for using your own photo looks messy and silly. Could do better in Microsoft Paint. 2. Only able to select saved photos from Camera Roll. No option to choose from a different photo folder (like Favorites). 3. Only able to import photos from primary Pinterest Boards, not the sub-boards. I have a Home board in Pinterest, and within that board I have sub-boards for each room. I can’t access those with the app. 4. Very limited color selection. There are whole categories of color that aren’t represented in the app. I did better picking up swatches from my local hardware store. This app doesn’t do anything I wanted it for. Trash. ### 2/5 — Good idea- But app doesn’t work well *2022-01-03, version 2.13* The idea is great, but the functionality of app is worthless. Here’s why: 1. I downloaded and used app for 15 minutes during which the app crashed 3 times. Had to reopen and start over again continuously. 2. Taking photos and allowing app to access certain photos worked fine. When looking over color swatches, the names of colors weren’t available to see (you’re going on small color swatch alone). Once you click on a color and it takes you to your chosen photo, there isn’t anyway to “undo” or “page back” if you don’t want that color. E. G.- I accidentally tapped on one color swatch a few times because no names are given (until color is selected) and I wasn’t sure “which black color” in that row that I had already looked at. I didn’t realize I had selected the same color until I clicked on it and then I could see the color name. I had to exit out of the picture completely and restart process just to choose another color. 3. “Painting” the color onto photo. The tech is ok. It does leave a white outer line around “painted area”, so that can be distracting. I also had an actual paint swatch on the wall, so it had a white line around that swatch too. 4. Overall- the inability to go back to color sample options from photo (having to restart process over again & again) and the continually crashing makes this app not useful. ### 2/5 — Great Idea, Some Kinks *2021-09-21, version 2.13* I selected a few photos from my photo album, applied colors matched from my Pinterest Board, and was delighted with the results. I then tried to add another few photos from my album but I found no way to add photos except to take new ones. I deleted and reinstalled just to fix this oversight. Also, there should be a re-do button in addition to the un-do. Additionally, it would be nice if I could match a color, then view similar colors in a color wheel or grid, so I can try a shade lighter, darker, warmer, cooler, etc. But overall, a good app for free ### 4/5 — Very good! *2021-04-26, version 2.13* Was told by a Home Depot employee that I shouldn’t use this app, after I already used the app. I was trying to decide on any color for my master bedroom. After looking at a lot of swatches at the store, and using the app to visualize it in my space, I chose “Thermal.” I am so amazed, after painting, how much it looks like the image the app showed me. And I left everything in my photo, but the wall was mostly bare. I will say I’m disappointed I can’t figure out how to ‘paint’ adjacent walls with different colors. So I’ve painted one, taken a screen capture, then used that image to ‘see it in my space’ changing the color of the adjacent wall. So that’s why I’ve removed 1 star. ### 2/5 — App needs work! *2021-02-20, version 2.13* The colors are beautiful but the app crashes every single time I try to preview a color in our room. I’ve tried deleting and re-installing to no avail. One of the main purposes of using this app was for me to get an idea of how a color might look before buying. I’ve also tested it to try to match colors, already knowing what the shade is called from our previous purchase and the app is waaayy off. It’s a good app for looking at colors but not for matching current colors or for previewing. ### 3/5 — Pretty good app, but could use improvements *2021-01-15, version 2.12* This app is great if you want to match a color to a picture that you have pinned on Pinterest, or that you have saved on your camera roll. However, for the project that I had planned, the app fell short. We were remodeling the kitchen and wanted to see what color cabinets we should go with to match the pre-existing paint we had on the walls in the kitchen. But this app only lets you see one color at a time, not to mention, only the wall color can be changed, not the cabinet color. Besides these shortcomings, the app is great but being able to see more than one color side by side and change the cabinet colors would be a major improvement to the app. ### 3/5 — Not user friendly *2021-01-12, version 2.12* It does the job of showing you how a certain color will look on your walls, but it goes back to original screen of “popular colors” every time you go to change the paint color. So let’s say you got to the section of like 100 green colors and pick one. If it’s a bit too bright and you want to see how another green nearby would look, it brings you all the way back to “popular colors” and you have to start over again. Super annoying. ### 2/5 — Needs major improvements *2020-05-09, version 2.10* The inability to flip through paints throughout a room is just stupid. I know I want a neutral color but the app requires you to go through 3 steps to get to that paint and lets say it’s a shade to dark you can’t go back one step and select the next color. Instead you have to go back through all three steps at which point you don’t even know what paint you originally selected because they aren’t labeled. Stupid app. Using PPGs website instead. ### 3/5 — Only able to use in portrait mode on iPadOS *2020-04-13, version 2.9.1* I can’t remember the last time I used an iPad in portrait mode or the last time I saw someone else use an iPad in portrait mode. I’m guessing the vast majority of iPad users use their iPad in landscape at least 95% of the time. I’m not sure why Home Depot would then only make Project Color available to use in portrait mode on the iPad. On iPhone it makes sense. On iPad though, it makes zero sense that if you’re only going to allow portrait or landscape that you would go with portrait. Please add landscape mode to the app. Until then I guess I will use it only on my iPhone. ### 3/5 — Buggy *2020-04-03, version 2.9.1* This is a great concept and I like using this one because I can get the correct colors at Home Depot. The problem is the photo must be taken vertically. This seems like an easy fix considering how far we’ve come with technology. Also the app freezes after a few minutes every single time I use it which forces me to start over. I’d like to see the option to use more than one color at a time as well. ### 3/5 — Could Use Modifications *2020-04-03, version 2.9.1* I’m finding that it’s almost impossible for an app that will allow you to virtually paint a room. I want to paint an “attic” cape cod room a dark green but not sure if I want to paint the whole room or just some of the walls. I was hoping an app would somewhat let me visualize my options. This app isn’t great as in, it can’t identify the walls. It generates very blotchy and you would need to put the paint density all the way up to completely fill the walls. Which then over fills lots of areas you don’t want paint including the floor, annoying, but not a big deal. I figured I’d just use the eraser to clean it up and get the general idea of what I was going for. This is where I just gave up..... the eraser is in the shape of a circle and doesn’t operate like most erasers in programs. While held down to erase it creates “circle stamps” instead of a straight line. You won’t be able to erase a straight edge....it’ll look scalloped. ### 2/5 — Frustrating *2020-02-20, version 2.8* This app worked fine when I first got it, but now the browse colors option doesn’t load any paint colors (which is the purpose of the whole app). It constantly says that there isn’t an internet connection and to try again. My other apps that require internet connection work just fine so I know that isn’t really the issue. I’ve tried deleting the app and reinstalling it and it still doesn’t work. Very frustrating. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — What happened to make it worse? *2023-11-06* I used an older version of this app years ago (2017) to help me plan out a multiple color paint job in a room. I have a friend who just bought a house and is repainting. I had a good experience back then, so I recommended it to her and showed my own excellent before/after pictures using the app. However, trying out this new version is giving a much worse experience. I’m only able to do one color at a time. It leaves horrible white edging, and the colors bleed from the wall into the ceiling and floor if I turn up the fill. I’m sorry I ever recommended it to her first without double checking it first. ### 1/5 — Shotty at best *2023-02-11, version 2.13* The fact these benefits of the app do not function 100% of the time is a problem. The screen freezes on iOS without any apps running in background. No updates or anything available. I pick a color and roll the dice if I can color match or try the paint color on the photo of a room. And don’t get me started on data sharing. It should be something you the company or app developer ask for, not just get by default. Total garbage. This app has a lot of cool benefits but definitely does not deliver. I’ve tried it multiple times. Uninstalling, and giving shot at shot it’s proven to be a waste of time. ### 1/5 — See it in your space feature is a joke *2021-12-03, version 2.13* I downloaded this app because I recently bought a home and we are painting the whole house. I really like accent walls and different colors so I thought this app would help me visualize the colors we want to use. Well this feature doesn’t work at all. The colors look horrible on the walls, like someone took Microsoft Paint and painted color on a photo. Also there’s no way to just choose one wall. You pick an area with your finger and then use the slider for the coverage amount… it’s just so clunky and not intuitive at all. I would think that Home Depot would have the resources to make a better app. Hopefully they fix it soon because it would be really cool idea to be able to visualize your paint before committing to it. ### 1/5 — Good on iPhone, Terrrible on iPad *2021-08-11, version 2.13* Although I love this app on my iPhone, it does not support iPad effectively. This color app does not rotate to support landscape orientation which is a huge disappointment on iPad because I generally have my iPad in landscape mode mounted in a holder or attached to the keyboard case and changing my entire usage pattern for just this one app is something I can do without. I had also hoped to see the sample photo on one side, with the paint choices still visible on the other side, they could really take advantage of the extra real estate with this app but instead seem to have just kept the iPhone version unmodified for use on iPad. ### 1/5 — Difficult to use *2021-05-17, version 2.13* I tried this app on both my iPhone and my iPad. I want to use BEHR paint from Home Depot so thought it would be easy. I have figured out the colors I want and planned to use the app to test out on photos I had taken. Loaded seven photos. App would only use two. Very disappointing. I have very high speed internet, but the app performed very slowly. Poor instructions. Great concept, but needs a lot of work. The app in Home Depot stores is similar and very slow. Wish I could figure out how to get some help! ### 1/5 — Colors doesn’t match 👎 *2021-05-08, version 2.13* I kinda loved this app. It was so easy to pick color and apply on various room setup. Loved the variety of rooms are used with well lit to dark. When I actually started the paint job in my house, I realized that this app (or any such app) is completely useless. The color what you see on your phone screen and the physical color is quite different. Phone screens can be warm or adaptive to light, which doesn’t reflect the true paint color. I ordered 3 different samples which completely differed from the app. I finally stopped using the app and ordered paint from the old color-fan. I won’t recommend to rely on this app for any dark color. ### 1/5 — Useless *2020-04-30, version 2.10* App does not work well. Usually the paint tool does not work at all but occasionally when it does, the picture looks horrible and cartoonish. It also severely distorts any photo you attempt to use. The only thing the app does is save your favorite colors but you don’t need this app to do that. I only installed it for the paint tool to “see it in my space”. I’m deleting the app because it is terrible, usually does not work, does not allow you to save photos in the app, and basically has no redeeming functions. ### 1/5 — Update ruined a decent app *2019-09-06, version 2.4* I liked the previous version better. It had its flaws but worked better than this one. - Before I could drag my finger across the screen to paint where I wanted. - Now I have to tap on a section to have it automatically fill in that area. This doesn’t work when you have an area that is multi-colored (such as a wooden deck). In that situation it fills in a very small section and I would have to tap all over the screen painting one tiny section after another. No thanks. - Before I could search for colors while in “my space” - Now I can only select between popular and my favorites. If I want to search I have to leave “my space”, search for a color and then go through the process of selecting a photo again. - Before there were multiple brands and types of paint. - Now there is only BEHR and Gidden and there is no selection for stains. Home Depot is a longer drive for me than Lowe’s (30 min vs 5 min). I guess I’ll just have to go to Lowe’s and get samples so I can see what color works best. Too bad since I like HD better. **Developer response:** Thank you for using the Home Depot Project Color App and for reaching out to us with your feedback. It's feedback from customers like you that helps us get better and better. We are working hard to make the See it in Your Space functionality better. In fact, we are working on bringing all colors from the color wall into this feature right now which was one of your suggestions. The rest will come in time. That said, you are able to order samples from the app and have them shipped directly to your home or place of business. And, samples ship free every day. Thanks, Sydney K Home Depot Project Color App Team ### 1/5 — Not good *2019-07-11, version 2.4* I downloaded this app to see what a white ceiling would look like in my cousins room and i was very disappointed with how the picture came out. First off, you can't even change the color panel when setting your space, it's stuck on popular colors which i don't want. Second of all the white that they had on the panel didn't turn out to actually be white once it was added to the picture it looked all pixilated and grey. Overall the colors on the panel don't show up in the picture how they're supposed to even in good lighting. I really want them to fix this because I know it used to be better than this. ### 1/5 — Not all that useful *2019-07-07, version 2.3* Accuracy is dependent upon the camera, and the type (temperature) and intensity of the light. Since this app does a poor job dealing with these variables, it’s as likely to be wrong as it is to get it right. Addendum: Three attempts to identify a color, using the same phone in the same light, same angle, moments apart yielded 2 very different colors and one slightly different shade. One attempt using around 6 color chips that I brought back from the store yielded far better accuracy. If you still want to use this app keep in mind that you can rarely return custom mixed paints if the stores app was at fault. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Exactly what I was looking for… *2023-01-14, version 2.13* This app is so simple and easy to use (much easier than the mobile website). I love that you can browse and save your favorites without creating an account. It’s also helpful that they have some default pictures of a kitchen, bedroom, etc that you can use to get an idea of what the color looks like in different rooms and on a large scale. You can also use a photo of your own space if you’d like. ### 5/5 — More helpful then I thought! *2022-08-24, version 2.13* I love this app! It made making the decision more easier for me, at first I didn’t think much of it now I can’t stop using it! Helps with everything would will everything you would need to make your house the way you want it to be! ### 5/5 — I am color blind this is god sent thank you Home Depot I am lost for words *2022-06-30, version 2.13* I have always had a very hard time seeing color, since I’ve been a child. I’ve tried on those color blind glasses, and they just confused me. I started to paint/art and it’s almost impossible….. until now. I want to say thank you to home depot for making this app, I’ve downloaded so many apps over the years and none compares to this app. I can’t believe I can take photos of things and it tells me what colors they are!!!!!!! ### 5/5 — Perfection *2021-01-05, version 2.12* Wow! This app is extremely useful and helpful for choosing the right colors for your home. It’s amazing to be able to simply take a picture of the space or room your painting and like magic you’re able to try all the different colors currently available! It’s so simple to use too, if you can take a photo you can navigate this app! ### 5/5 — Love Pinterest! *2020-01-12, version 2.7.1* I never leave reviews but this app is really fun and I love that it connects to Pinterest. One thing they could add is a feature that allows you to make a pallet based on your favorite colors and then be able to export it to Pinterest. Overall the app is really fun and I can’t wait to see what else they do. ### 5/5 — Good concept *2019-11-30, version 2.6* I’m enjoying seeing what colors may actually look like in my space. I’ve learned how different it is to see your favorite color on paper vs multiple coats on lathe walls & with your actual lighting. Can’t wait to see how the colors also look in daytime with the natural light. ### 5/5 — I had to edit the brightness of the picture using iphone8 *2019-07-03, version 2.3* For capturing a color of my siding I took a picture of a large area that was in the shade with bright sun light reflecting off adjacent surfaces. When I used the color capture feature, all paints came out too dark when held up to the vinyl siding. So, I increased the brightness of the photo using Photos until I could hold up my iPhone to the siding using color capture and the brightness was the same. I found 2 good matches. Now, I will get some samples and find out if the matches are real. Note that I turned up the brightness on my IPhone to max before I started this exercise. ### 5/5 — Thank you!! *2019-06-05, version 2.3* I was obsessed with this app but then they took the see in my space feature away. After seeing all the comments regarding how important this was to everyone they have put that feature back. Thank you Home Depot for understanding consumer wants! Also because of this I was able to pick out the perfect color paint for my bathroom! ### 5/5 — Update: Brought room painter back *2019-04-10, version 2.2* Glad that Home Depot listens to customer feedback. They brought back the tool that lets you take a picture of a room and see what it might look like if you painted it a certain color. It's obviously not perfect, but it's useful for imagining what colors of paints you might like in a very real way. All-around great app, and very glad Home Depot listens to customer feedback. ### 5/5 — Thanks for listening *2019-04-09, version 2.2* This weekend I decided to finish painting our basement downstairs and wanted to blend the color with another color from Behr I purchased two years ago. I was very happy to find the colors quickly but even more happy that the feature to see the color in my room was returned. This is for now a competitive advantage and definitely a value add. The ability to see what I want in my space and go to store to get exactly that is the primary reason I purchased paint at Home Depot versus another store. **Developer response:** I’m happy to inform you that after a brief hiatus, the See It In My Space feature is back! We understand that this feature is important and have been hard at work making it better than ever. Update to the latest version of the Project Color app to start using it today. Choose any color and then tap the “See it in Your Space” button. 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