Color Picker vs SimplNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color Picker
This app offers a suite of tools for digital color selection and manipulation. It enables users to blend, generate gradients, create palettes, and extract colors from images. Additionally, it includes a contrast checker and supports various color code formats.
- Blend colors
- Generate gradients
- Create color palettes
- Extract colors from images
- Check color contrast
- Convert between HEX, RGB, and other codes
- Export color data
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Pick any color from your camera or a photo and get its name, HEX and RGB, plus a recipe to mix it in paint or match it with colored pencils. Made for painters, illustrators and designers. FOR ARTISTS - Paint Mixing Guide: choose a target color and get a mixing recipe for acrylic, oil or watercolor. - Skin Tone Picker: sample light, midtone and shadow from a portrait and get the mixes for each. - Paint Match: find the closest colored pencils in Faber-Castell Polychromos and Prismacolor Premier. - Photo to Pencils: see which pencils a whole reference photo needs. - My Supplies and My Swatches: mark the pencils you own and capture your real swatches with the camera. - Value Study: grayscale values and notan from any reference photo. - Reference Grid: grid, mirror and squint views for drawing. - Gamut Mask and Color Atlas: see a palette on the wheel by value and chroma, and browse colors by hue. - Master Palettes: palettes from public-domain paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago. - Procreate Palette: turn a photo into a .swatches file. PICK COLOR FROM ANYTHING - Live Camera: real-time picking with a center reticle. - Pick at Position: tap any point on a photo. - Photo Palette: extract a clean palette from any image. - Hex Info: HEX, RGB, HSL, HSB, CMYK, XYZ and CIE Lab, with shades and related colors. - Color Name: the closest named color. COLOR THEORY AND DESIGN - Color Harmony: complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic, split-complementary, square and monochromatic. - Shades and Tints, Color Mixer. - Contrast Checker: WCAG AA and AAA. - Color Blindness Simulator: protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia and achromatopsia. - Palette Studio: generate, lock, reorder and reroll palettes. - Brand Color and AI Color Hub: describe a brand or a mood, get a complete palette. - Gradient Generator. PHOTO TOOLS - Color Transfer: match the colors of a reference photo. - Color Grading: film-style presets and LUTs. - Background Remover. EXPORT - Code: CSS, SCSS, Swift, Flutter, Kotlin, Android XML, Tailwind, MUI, JSON, HTML. - Files: image, Procreate .swatches, Adobe .ase, CSV, TXT, print sheet. - My Colors: save and organize palettes, synced across iPhone and iPad. COLOR PICKER PRO Remove ads and unlock every Pro tool. Yearly $9.99 or monthly $2.99, auto-renewing. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://doodlecub.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://doodlecub.com/privacy Support: https://doodlecub.com/about#contact
SimplNote
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SimplNote is a notes app you actually want to scroll through. Notes are cards. Swipe through them like reels, double-tap to favourite, swipe left right to delete one. No folders. No tags. No clutter. Jot, list, share — that's it. • Quick status-style notes for one-line thoughts • Tick-off checklists that glide to the bottom as you go • Eight built-in fonts — handwriting, coding, display, serif • Eight one-tap colour themes for every mood • Favourite the ones worth keeping Made for friends, not feeds. • Pair with a friend by scanning their QR code or sending an invite • Share a note with one tap — they see it instantly in their own reel • Per-recipient avatars and shared favourites Built to feel fast. • Offline-first: every tap saves locally and syncs in the background • Smart 3-second debounce so a flurry of ticks becomes a single sync • Reanimated transitions everywhere — swipes, springs, smooth list reorders • Optimistic UI: no waiting for a server before you see the change Private by design. • Sign in with Google — we only keep your name, email, and avatar. • Note contents are encrypted. • No ads. No tracking. No third-party analytics. Designed to disappear. • Hand-drawn paper-cut sticker icons • Dark-first theme that's easy on the eyes • A first-time tutorial that gets out of the way fast If you've ever wished your notes felt less like a database and more like a feed of your own thoughts — this is for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SimplNote at none against Color Picker's 2. SimplNote also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Color Picker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. SimplNote asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Color Picker | SimplNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (981 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 24.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 981 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 98 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hue Hoang Thi | Sayak Sarkar |
Bugs and requests
Color Picker
Reported bugs
3 issues- Incorrect hex code generation
- Freezing and crashing issues
- Incompatibility with some devices
Requested features
4 requests- Copy/paste functionality for color codes
- RAL color support
- Customizable color palettes
- Improved color picker UI
SimplNote
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Color Picker
- Color Pro7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Color Picker Pro Yealy7 Days trial$6.991 Year
SimplNote
No in-app purchases









