Harmony Tool vs Simple Color Palette
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Harmony Tool
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Color Harmony is the secret weapon of designers, artists, and stylists. It’s easy to pick a single accent color for any given color-- But how about picking out 5 accents that all go perfectly with the main color? Color Harmony can do this easily for you (and more) by using your built-in camera! Use Color Harmony to help you create beautiful color palettes, pick out the right colored accessories or just record the colors around you for later creative use. Your designs or wardrobe will never clash again. Be bold, be adventurous, don't clash. Color Harmony is a tool that uses 'color chords' to create harmonies just like with music. It does this using the amazing geometry and math created by Johannes Itten who blended music and color science to create the shapes and rules that this tool uses to generate harmonious colors. Additional features: Choose from 5 different harmony geometries. Create new harmonies from palette colors. Endless possibilities here. Create and switch between multiple palettes. Sort palettes by hue. Export your color palettes to PhotoShop swatch files. More feature coming (including some neat AR stuff).
Simple Color Palette
Create, view, and edit color palettes in a specific file format. Supports importing popular swatch formats and provides previews for your color collections. Ideal for maintaining brand consistency and sharing color schemes.
- Create and edit color palettes
- View color palettes (.color-palette)
- Import .ase and .clr files
- Quick Look preview
- Thumbnail generation
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View, create, and edit color palettes in the Simple Color Palette format (.color-palette). The app also provides Quick Look preview and thumbnails for such files. A color palette is a collection of colors with optional names, essential for designers to maintain consistent branding, create cohesive user interfaces, and share color schemes across projects and teams. This is not a palette organizer app—it's focused on individual palettes. It supports importing Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ase) and Color List (.clr) palettes. See the website for more info about the Simple Color Palette format.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Simple Color Palette at Free against Harmony Tool's $3.99. Simple Color Palette also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 40 months). Harmony Tool's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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
Simple Color Palette is free to download; Harmony Tool costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Harmony Tool ships an update every 40 months, Simple Color Palette every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Harmony Tool | Simple Color Palette |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 40 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Far Out Labs | Sindre Sorhus |
In-app purchases
Harmony Tool
No in-app purchases
Simple Color Palette
No in-app purchases
Questions
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