# WheelMasks — Harmonic Colors

> Utility for creating harmonic color schemes for digital art and illustration. (iPhone/iPad app by Roger Tallada Solano.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wheelmasks/id911880252 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Roger Tallada Solano](https://appshunter.io/developer/911880255)
- Category: Utilities, Photo & Video
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.60/5 from 62 App Store ratings · 36 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.0 · 13 MB
- Languages: American English, Catalan, European Spanish
- Released: 2015-05-20
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wheelmasks/id911880252/reviews.md

## What is WheelMasks?

WheelMasks is an utility to create harmonic color schemes that will help you improve your paintings and illustrations. 

Create a wheel mask by drawing a shape over the color wheel that limits the palette of colors available for your illustration, providing you with an harmonic color scheme.

Unlike traditional palette creation apps, WheelMasks’ palettes are not limited to just a few colors, making it an ideal tool for the digital painter and colorist.

Use a preset mask or create new ones by transforming them or creating them from scratch. There are preset masks for the following color schemes: triad, square, tetradic, complementary, accent, split and analogous.

Configure the color wheel to your liking. Chose how many hues you want, how many levels for each hue and the brightness or, when available, the saturation.

You can see the color definitions, either as RGB values or Hex, in the extended palette view. You can also copy those values to the pasteboard. 

- Choose from several color modes for the wheel: RGB, RYB, RYGB and Equiluminant. 
- Keep an archive of the wheel masks you've created.
- Send your wheel masks to any image editing app that is capable of opening PNG files or export the swatches as an Adobe Swatch Exchange file or as Procreate's swatches.

All the modes but Equiluminant have three variants:

- Normal: a typical color wheel with saturation or brightness, you can choose, decreasing to the center of the wheel.
- Chroma: a color wheel with decreasing chroma to the center that keeps the same lightness in each hue, with lightness decreasing along the wheel from yellow to its opposite hue.
- Grey: a color wheel with colors converging to a neutral grey at the center.

The Equiluminant mode has two variants, HSLuv and HPLuv. The HSLuv color space is an extension of CIELUV, a color space that attempts perceptual uniformity. The lightness of every hue in the color wheel is perceptually the same, unlike the lightness of other color spaces which varies from hue to hue.

## Key features

- Create custom color wheel masks
- Limit palettes for harmonic schemes
- Multiple color modes (RGB, RYB, RYGB, Equiluminant)
- Adjust hue, levels, brightness, saturation
- View and copy RGB/Hex values
- Export swatches (ASE, Procreate)
- Archive created wheel masks

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unlock everything. | Free | one-time |


## Recent user reviews (10 of 36)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wheelmasks/id911880252/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Not like me to leave a review… yet this app is amazing! Agile…and time saving!

*2024-11-04*

Not like me to leave a review… yet this app is amazing! Agile…and time saving!

### 5/5 — WOW

*2024-10-20*

What a brilliantly useful and well thought out app this is. Massive thank you to the developer for the hard work!

### 5/5 — Export Available!

*2024-06-26*

The option to export into various formats makes this app truly great. You can tell a lot of care went into the creation of this color app. 5 Stars.

### 5/5 — Colours!

*2024-06-25*

Thank you

### 5/5 — Love this app!

*2024-05-02*

Just what I’ve been looking for. It’s perfect for color masking and works very well except for small glitches.  I’d like to import it to procreate but it doesn’t seem to open so I’ve been taking a screenshot and opening as a reference. Any suggestions for exporting to procreate?

**Developer response:** Thank you for your review, Michelepacific. You can export a wheel mask as a Procreate palette (or multiple palettes if it contains many colors). Tap on the share button on the top right corner and choose the “Procreate Palette(s)” option, tap on “Export” and then choose Procreate in the share sheet that will appear. The palette will then be available in Procreate in the “Palettes” tab of the color popup.

### 5/5 — Exploding my brain!

*2024-02-03*

I am new to painting and struggle with what color goes with what. Not anymore! So looking forward! Thank-you!

### 5/5 — Fantastic tool. So much appreciated!

*2024-01-07*

Fantastic tool. So much appreciated!

### 5/5 — Genius

*2022-12-06, version 1.2.3*

Nothing else here in the App Store comes close.

### 2/5 — Preset Colors Not Flexible Enough

*2022-04-17, version 1.2.3*

I like the concept, but want to select a particular color as a base or pull that color from a photograph. This doesn’t meet my needs.

### 5/5 — Excellent!

*2022-02-26*

I thought this kind of app would be too obscure to exist, but Lo and behold, you have provided. I came across this after learning James Gurney’s gamut mapping technique and wondering if there was an easy way to make a gamut mask palette for Procreate. This is so well designed and easy to use! Thank you so much for creating and sharing this, it is super useful :-)

## Frequently asked questions about WheelMasks

### What does WheelMasks do?

WheelMasks is a utility app designed to help artists create harmonic color schemes for their paintings and illustrations. It allows users to generate custom color wheels by drawing shapes, which then define a limited, harmonious palette of colors for their artwork.

### How can I create a color scheme with WheelMasks?

You can create a color scheme by drawing a shape over the color wheel to define your desired palette. The app offers preset masks for common color schemes like triad, square, and complementary, or you can create new masks from scratch or by transforming existing ones.

### What color modes are available?

WheelMasks supports several color modes for the wheel, including RGB, RYB, RYGB, and Equiluminant. Each mode, except Equiluminant, has variants like Normal, Chroma, and Grey, offering different ways to visualize color relationships and saturation/brightness.

### Can I export my color schemes?

Yes, you can export your created wheel masks. The app allows you to send them to compatible image editing applications as PNG files. Additionally, you can export color swatches in formats like Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ase) or Procreate's swatches.

### Is WheelMasks compatible with other art software?

WheelMasks is designed to integrate with other art software. You can export your color schemes as PNG files to open in any image editing app. Furthermore, it supports exporting swatches in formats compatible with professional software like Adobe Photoshop and Procreate.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.2.5 — 2023-11-12

Bug fixes.

### 1.2.4 — 2023-10-30

Bug fixes.

### 1.2.3 — 2021-07-10

- Re-enables copying a color description to the pasteboard.

### 1.2.2 — 2021-04-11

- Fixes a bug with all variants of grey color wheels (RGB, RYB and RGYB), they will now correctly blend to a neutral grey.
- Fixes a bug with equiluminant color wheels when the wheel settings slider had been set to saturation mode.

### 1.2.1 — 2020-10-19

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

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