Comparison

Pigments Studio vs GreyStep

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

Head to head
About

Pigments Studio

This app provides a digital color wheel with a high-contrast interface for easy navigation. Explore harmonious color relationships with traditional features and color filter presets that highlight complementary, triadic, and other schemes. Easily mix colors and retrieve hexadecimal codes for each sector.

Highlights
  • Digital color wheel
  • Color filter presets
  • Color scheme exploration
  • Color mixing functionality
  • Hexadecimal color code display
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

GreyStep

Features
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Converts an image from the photo library to a 4-value monochrome image.

Screenshots

Pigments Studio4 screens
GreyStep1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GreyStep at none against Pigments Studio's 6. GreyStep also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 9 months) and iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Pigments Studio sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. GreyStep asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pigments Studio ships an update every 9 months, GreyStep every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pigments Studio versus GreyStep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPigments StudioGreyStep
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (78 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews38.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings78 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRumiya MurtazinaYukihiro Shioya

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

GreyStep

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pigments Studio free?
Pigments Studio is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GreyStep free?
GreyStep is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pigments Studio or GreyStep have ads?
Neither Pigments Studio nor GreyStep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pigments Studio or GreyStep?
Pigments Studio ships an update every 9 months, and GreyStep every 6 days. Most recently, Pigments Studio was updated on September 10, 2026 and GreyStep on September 9, 2026.

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