# Undertone: Color Study — Color Study for Art & Design

> Color Study for Art & Design (iPhone/iPad app by Paintingstack Technologies SpA.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/undertone-color-study/id6761922242 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Paintingstack Technologies SpA](https://appshunter.io/developer/1884953294)
- Category: Photo & Video, Graphics & Design
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 32 MB
- Languages: French (France), German (Germany), American English, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified, China), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan), Korean, Danish, European Spanish, Hebrew and 7 more
- Released: 2026-04-15
- Data updated: 2026-10-25

## What is Undertone?

Every image has a color structure. Undertone shows it to you.

Bring in any image, a photo, a painting, a screenshot. In seconds, the app breaks down the color structure underneath: palette, harmony, temperature, and value. The relationships that make an image feel right, made visible. All processing happens on your device. Your images never leave your device.

What you get with every analysis:

Palette with proportions. Not flat swatches. Dominant colors shown by actual weight. A 60% warm neutral with a 5% cool accent is a different palette than 50/50. Every color labeled with hex codes and painter-friendly names. Yellow Ochre, not "Autumn Sunset Dream."

Color harmony. The relationship between your colors identified and named: complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, tetradic, square, or monochromatic. Real palettes rarely sit on textbook angles, so Undertone names the closest fit. Colors plotted on a wheel so you can see the geometry.

Temperature map. A warm-cool overlay on your image that makes the invisible visible. Muddy shadows? Probably a temperature problem, warm paint leaking into your cools. Golden hour magic? Warm light forces cool shadows by contrast. Toggle the map on, and the thing you couldn't diagnose becomes obvious.

Value structure. Your image stripped to grayscale, divided into clear zones: light, mid-tone, dark. Value does more work than color. A painting with strong values and wrong colors still reads. This automates the painter's squint.

Built for people who work with color:

Painters studying a master painting at the museum, analyzing a reference before mixing, or diagnosing why the shadows look muddy.

Photographers translating a mood board into concrete editing decisions, or understanding why golden hour works so they can repeat it.

Designers extracting palettes from real-world references and showing clients why a color scheme works. With evidence, not "trust me."

Art students crossing the gap between intuition and understanding. Every analysis is a micro-lesson in color theory.

Every analysis is saved automatically. Your library becomes a personal color reference you can browse anytime.

Free: 20 analyses at a time with the Original, Temperature, Values, and Saturation modes, plus the palette and harmony for every image.

Premium: Composition (10 guide types), Contrast focal analysis, tinted value bands and 2 to 9 tonal steps, unlimited history, full-resolution export. One-time purchase. No subscription.

Stop guessing. Start seeing.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lifetime Premium | $9.99 | one-time |


## Is Undertone safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Undertone.

## Is Undertone legit?

Undertone: Color Study appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Undertone is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 5.12.0 — 2026-10-23

Study the color structure of any image: palette, harmony, temperature and value.
Fully transparent areas stay out of palettes and warm/cool analysis. Export filenames include the view, such as Composition or Saturation.

### 5.11.0 — 2026-10-10

See the color structure of any image: palette, harmony, temperature and value. While an analysis is open the screen stays awake, so your reference waits beside the easel. The contrast map circles the areas that pull the eye, sliders follow your hand as you drag, and every export carries its analysis name and matches the screen.

### 5.10.0 — 2026-09-19

Composition analysis now recognizes framing among its guides, and every match shows together in full screen instead of one at a time. Transparent images render cleanly throughout the app, from your history to the full view.

### 5.9.0 — 2026-09-12

See the color structure in any image: palette, harmony, temperature, and value.
Your saved analyses now sit in a cleaner library, with sharper thumbnails and clearer dates. Panels and type are more consistent throughout, and every screen adapts cleanly to the space it has.

### 5.8.0 — 2026-08-29

See the structure behind any image: palette, harmony, temperature, and value.
Temperature is now adjustable, sweep the warm-cool intensity and watch the structure emerge. Cleaner dialogs and a more refined feel throughout.

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