Comparison

Color Picker vs SimplNote

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Blend colors
  • Generate gradients
  • Create color palettes
  • Extract colors from images
  • Check color contrast
  • Convert between HEX, RGB, and other codes
  • Export color data
Features
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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

About

SimplNote

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Color Picker4 screens
SimplNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Color Picker versus SimplNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColor PickerSimplNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (981 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews24.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings981 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size98 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHue Hoang ThiSayak 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

2 purchases

Color Picker

Subscriptions2
  • Color Pro7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Color Picker Pro Yealy7 Days trial$6.991 Year
None

SimplNote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Color Picker free?
Color Picker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SimplNote free?
SimplNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Color Picker or SimplNote have ads?
Color Picker shows ads; SimplNote does not.

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