Comparison

Piiika vs Palette Spin

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

Head to head
About

Piiika

Capture colors from photos, organize them with tags, and search by HEX or RGB. Share your color palettes with friends. Ideal for designers, photographers, and anyone who loves color.

Highlights
  • Capture colors from photos
  • Organize colors with tags
  • Search by HEX or RGB
  • Share color palettes
  • Color inspiration from photos
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Put every color you notice into a bottle of your own. Piiika is a lightweight, playful toolkit for capturing, organizing, and creating with color. Whether you are a designer, photographer, illustrator, or simply someone who loves the colors found in everyday life, Piiika gives every spark of inspiration a place in your personal color library. CAPTURE COLORS FROM CAMERA OR PHOTOS Capture a color in front of you with the camera, or choose a favorite photo and let Piiika extract a representative palette automatically. Move the on-image color picker to sample any exact point and turn scenery, films, outfits, food, and everyday moments into color inspiration you can keep. CREATE AND FINE-TUNE COLORS Choose colors with an intuitive grid or RGB sliders, then adjust brightness and saturation. Piiika displays HEX, RGB, and CMYK values together and lets you copy them quickly for graphic design, UI work, illustration, and other visual projects. BUILD AN ORGANIZED COLOR COLLECTION Add tags to colors so they are easy to organize and find by theme. Save individual colors or combine several favorites into a complete palette. Single colors and palettes with the same tag appear together, keeping your library clear and easy to browse. SEARCH BY COLOR VALUE Enter a HEX code or RGB values to see the matching color and its details instantly. Adjust the result’s brightness and saturation, then save it directly for your next project. MAKE YOUR OWN PALETTES Select multiple saved colors and combine them into a palette. Reorder, edit, and share the colors inside it. It is ideal for keeping brand colors, project systems, outfit ideas, interior inspiration, or any color relationship worth remembering. FIND RANDOM INSPIRATION Not sure where to start? Explore randomly generated combinations in the Color Library. When a palette clicks, save it to your collection with a tap. CREATE GRADIENT WALLPAPERS Turn one color or an entire palette into a clean, natural gradient wallpaper. Preview the result for your Home Screen or Lock Screen and save your favorites to Photos. MAKE COLOR-DRIVEN FILTERS Apply a saved color or palette to a photo to create a distinctive mood. Fine-tune highlights, shadows, saturation, and brightness until the image matches your style. SHARE COLOR BEAUTIFULLY Turn a color, palette, or photo color card into a polished shareable image. Exchange inspiration with friends or present a design direction in a clear, visual way. Every color can hold a memory—and become the beginning of your next idea. Open Piiika and start collecting your color world. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Palette Spin

Features
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Palette Spin is a simple wallpaper maker for turning colors, photos, and text into custom iPhone wallpapers. Start with a palette, spin through color patterns, and preview how your wallpaper looks on an iPhone-style screen. You can add a photo, adjust blend effects, place text, tune colors, and save the result to Photos. Palette Spin is designed for quick visual experiments: ・Spin palettes and color patterns ・Create colorful gradient wallpapers ・Add photos as a background layer ・Adjust blend mode, opacity, scale, and position ・Add text with custom font, color, outline, shadow, and rotation ・Preview portrait and landscape wallpaper layouts ・Save full wallpapers or split designs into tiles Whether you want a bright lock screen, a soft gradient background, or a personal wallpaper with text and photos, Palette Spin helps you make it quickly.

Screenshots

Piiika4 screens
Palette Spin2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Palette Spin at daily against Piiika's every 3 weeks. On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Piiika costs $0.99 and Palette Spin $1.29 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Piiika ships an update every 3 weeks, Palette Spin daily. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Piiika versus Palette Spin: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPiiikaPalette Spin
Price$0.99 — better$1.29
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer琳钧 黄Makoto Fukuoka

In-app purchases

None

Piiika

No in-app purchases

None

Palette Spin

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Piiika free?
Piiika costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Palette Spin free?
Palette Spin costs $1.29, with no in-app purchases.
Do Piiika or Palette Spin have ads?
Neither Piiika nor Palette Spin shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Piiika or Palette Spin?
Piiika ships an update every 3 weeks, and Palette Spin daily. Most recently, Piiika was updated on November 7, 2026 and Palette Spin on November 5, 2026.

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