Color vs InstColor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color
Easily pick, save, and edit colors for all your creative projects. Store your favorite hues and access them quickly. Includes a widget for random color generation.
- Save colors
- Edit colors
- Copy saved colors
- Random color widget
- Store colors for creative work
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Color Selector is a super awesome color picker. The place to store all your colors for all your creative work. Features: - Save colors. - Edit colors. - Copy and use your saved colors. - Save a random color Widget. For any questions or proposals, contact me on app.kamaal@gmail.com Privacy policy: https://kamaal.io/privacyterms Terms and condition: https://kamaal.io/privacyterms
InstColor
Instantly detect and extract colors from your surroundings using your device's camera. Get detailed color information, including names, RGB values, and color families. Explore color blending and various color translation options.
- Real-time camera color extraction
- Color names, RGB, and family info
- Dominant colors detection
- Color blending experiments
- RGB/HSB/HEX inter-conversions
- Color translation schemes
- Save favorite colors
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InstColor is a powerful tool to immediately extract colors. It has following features: - Extract colors around you in your back/front camera in real-time - Color information includes color names, RGB values and color family - Dominant colors detection mode allows you to extract all primary colors in one shot in real-time! - Color blend mode is fun to explore and experiment. You can blend up to 5 colors together to get a new color - RGB/P3/HSB/HSL/HEX/CMYK/XYZ/LAB inter-conversions - Convenient/fast color translations into Complementary color, Triadic colors, Split complementary colors, Analogous colors, Tetradic colors and Monochromatic colors - Save your favorite colors for future references - Blend mode to allow you blend detected colors with other colors - Color name / RGB reference list across spectrum
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: InstColor at none against Color's 3. InstColor also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). Color's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Color sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. InstColor asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Color against 4.0 for InstColor. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.
Color ships an update every 2 weeks, InstColor daily. The most recent releases landed on July 7, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color | InstColor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kamaal Farah | Lei Cao |
Customer experience
Color
InstColor
In-app purchases
Color
- Soda$0.99
- Coffee$4.99
- Meal$8.99
InstColor
No in-app purchases
