Pigments Studio vs GreyStep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Digital color wheel
- Color filter presets
- Color scheme exploration
- Color mixing functionality
- Hexadecimal color code display
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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
GreyStep
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Converts an image from the photo library to a 4-value monochrome image.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | Pigments Studio | GreyStep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (78 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 38.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 78 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rumiya Murtazina | Yukihiro Shioya |
In-app purchases
Pigments Studio
- Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pro Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- 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
GreyStep
No in-app purchases






