Comparison

Pigments Studio vs Color Wheel

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Pigments Studio

Discover color relationships and build custom palettes. Extract colors from photos or generate them with AI. Save, organize, and share your creations for design projects.

Highlights
  • Interactive color wheel with harmony schemes
  • Image analysis for color palette extraction
  • AI-powered palette generation
  • Color matching and wheel transformation
  • Save and organize custom palettes
  • Sync palettes across devices
  • HEX color support
Features
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Pigments Studio helps you discover color relationships, extract palettes from photos, and build a personal library of colors for future projects. Explore complementary, split-complementary, triadic, tetradic, and analogous color schemes with the interactive color wheel. Fine-tune colors by adding tint, tone, shade, or color variations, or match an existing color to see how it transforms the entire palette. Capture inspiration from the world around you. Take a photo or choose one from your photo library to extract its dominant colors, then explore each color on the wheel, build palettes, and save your favorites for later. Features • Interactive color wheel with harmony schemes • Image analysis and automatic color palette extraction • Dominant color composition from photos • AI-powered palette generation with Apple Intelligence • Color matching and wheel transformation • Tint, tone, shade, and color adjustments • HEX color support • Save and organize custom palettes • Sync your palettes across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud • Add notes to saved palettes • Share palettes with others • Clean, distraction-free design focused on color exploration Whether you’re a designer, artist, illustrator, student, or simply exploring color theory, Pigments Studio helps you find inspiration, understand color relationships, and create palettes with confidence. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pigments.abearablecode.com/privacy.html

About

Color Wheel

This app offers a comprehensive suite of tools for artists and designers, featuring various color wheels, a color picker from camera or images, and tools for analyzing color combinations, contrast, and light effects. It aids in pigment mixing and value checking, making it useful for both beginners and professionals.

Highlights
  • Multiple color wheel types (digital, classic, abstract)
  • Color picker from camera and images
  • AR Stencil for proportion marking
  • Color combination and swatch generation
  • Value checker and light effect simulator
  • Contrast ratio calculator
  • Pigment mixing exploration
Features
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Digital, abstract, classic - all types of color wheels in one app! A set of tools for painters and designers includes: Digital color wheel - an indispensable tool for graphic designers. Classic color wheel - a classic, versatile version of the color wheel. Abstract color wheel - a specialized color choice for abstract painting. AR Stencil - a tool for quickly marking up proportions. Color picker - a tool for obtaining color from the camera. Image Colors - take colors from an image. Color combinations - many professional color palettes for digital design and abstract art. Color swatches - a tool for choosing colors by season and mood. Grayscale - a handy tool for any painter. Value checker - checks the painting for the correct balance of value. Light tool - a tool that shows the effect of different types of light on colors. Value Breaker - simplifies painting for beginners by breaking down images into distinct values. Contrast Ratio - a tool for calculating the contrast ratio between two colors to ensure readability and accessibility. Color Group - a tool for creating large color groups. Tone - a tool that harmonizes colors within a palette by introducing a common tone as visual glue. Pigment mixing - a tool for exploring how pigments combine to create new colors.

Screenshots

Pigments Studio4 screens
Color Wheel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pigments Studio at Free against Color Wheel's $3.99. Color Wheel's advantage is review sentiment (82% vs 38%) and rating (4.8 vs 4.2). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pigments Studio is free to download; Color Wheel costs $3.99 up front. Pigments Studio sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Color Wheel asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Color Wheel holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Wheel has 1.1K ratings behind it against 78, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of Pigments Studio's written reviews are positive against 82% of Color Wheel's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pigments Studio ships an update every 2 months, Color Wheel every 11 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Pigments Studio versus Color Wheel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPigments StudioColor Wheel
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.2 (78 ratings)4.8 (1.1K ratings) — better
Positive reviews38.5% of reviews82.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings781.1K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 11 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#25 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS1715.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRumiya MurtazinaRoman Sevastyanov

Customer experience

Pigments Studio

All ratings78 ratings
Positive78.2%
Neutral9.0%
Negative12.8%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive38.5%
Neutral15.4%
Negative46.2%

Color Wheel

All ratings1,054 ratings
Positive96.6%
Neutral2.4%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews136 reviews
Positive82.4%
Neutral8.8%
Negative8.8%

Bugs and requests

Pigments Studio

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Color Wheel

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • RYB color mixing not working correctly
  • Black square cannot be cleared
  • 4th color number not showing in photo color picker

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to name and save custom color palettes
  • Option to input custom HEX/RGB values
  • CMYK mode for color wheels
  • Export color palettes as image files
  • Search feature for saved color palettes
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  • Upload image to check color values

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Pigments Studio

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time4
  • Remove Ads Tier 2$1.99
  • Remove Ads Tier 3$2.99
  • Premium$2.99
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  • Remove Ads Tier 5$4.99
None

Color Wheel

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pigments Studio free?
Pigments Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Color Wheel free?
Color Wheel costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pigments Studio or Color Wheel?
Color Wheel is rated higher. Pigments Studio averages 4.2 out of 5 from 78 ratings, while Color Wheel averages 4.8 from 1.1K ratings.
Do Pigments Studio or Color Wheel have ads?
Neither Pigments Studio nor Color Wheel shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pigments Studio or Color Wheel?
Pigments Studio ships an update every 2 months, and Color Wheel every 11 days. Most recently, Pigments Studio was updated on November 6, 2026 and Color Wheel on November 6, 2026.

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