NCS+ vs Hex Color Picker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NCS+
Discover and select the perfect colors for your design projects with a comprehensive system. Explore color themes, match surfaces using a color reader, and combine colors based on similarity. Save, share, and inspire with your favorite palettes.
- Explore standardized NCS colors
- Search colors by notation or filters
- Match surfaces with color reader
- Navigate NCS color space
- Combine colors based on similarity
- Save and share color mood boards
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Find the right colour for your next project. NCS+ helps you to succeed in any colour design. With NCS - Natural Colour System®©, developed by world-renowned colour experts, it has never been easier to find the right colour for your project. EXPLORE COLOUR THEMES In NCS+, you have access to all of the standardized NCS colours, and can explore all of the NCS Colour products, including Trend collections, the NCS Index, NCS Exterior and NCS Inspire. FIND YOUR COLOUR Search for colours in the new and innovative search panel, either through an NCS Notation (or parts of it) or filter for colours based on their hue and/or nuance. MATCH A SURFACE Using the built-in support for the Colourpin II / SE / PRO colour readers, you can easily scan any surface and find the closest matching NCS colour with the click of a button. You can also see how much the scanned surface differs from the closest matching colours with the built-in rating function and its corresponding delta E 2000 value. NAVIGATE THE NCS COLOUR SPACE The new and improved NCS Navigator brings unparallelled ease of navigating in the NCS System, through the NCS Circle selecting the prefered hue, and the NCS Triangle to select the correct nuance. The innovative beehive allows you to fine-tune your selection by modifying the selected colour in either chromaticness, blackness or whiteness, giving you exactly the colour you want. COMBINE COLOURS Through the smartness of the NCS System, you can combine colours of your choice based on colour similarities such as nuance-, hue-, blackness-, chromaticness-, whiteness and NCS lightness similarity. Basing your combination colours on these properties are one of the most certain ways of creating colour combinations that harmonize. COLOUR SAMPLE REFERENCES With unprecedented on-screen colour accuracy, you can now bring up any standard NCS colour on your mobile device. On each colour, you can also find out in which collections they are available, buy a physical sample in different sizes from the NCS Colour web shop or any NCS reseller as well as find translation values into other systems such as RGB, HEX, CMYK and Lab values. SAVE, SHARE AND INSPIRE Save your favourite colours into mood boards, upload images or take photos of your project to provide addional context to the board. You can then share the boards with friends or colleagues to inspire and collaborate.
Hex Color Picker
Easily identify and extract color codes from images, your camera, or the web. Supports multiple formats like HEX, RGB, HSL, and CMYK, with options for palettes, gradients, and project management.
- Image, camera, and web color picking
- Multiple color code formats (HEX, RGB, HSL, CMYK)
- Color palettes and gradients
- Export options (PNG, SVG)
- Color history and library
- Project management
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Features: • Simple UI with Convenient UX • Images, Camera, Web Color Picker • Hex,RGB(A), HSL(A), CMYK and Name Formats • Color Palettes, Color Gradients, PNG, SVG export • Color History, Library • Projects Privacy Policy : https://sites.google.com/view/colorpicker-privacy-policy/home Terms of Use : https://sites.google.com/view/color-picker-terms/home
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NCS+ at none against Hex Color Picker's 4. NCS+ also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 20%). Hex Color Picker's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (3.8 vs 3.3). On price, update cadence 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. Hex Color Picker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. NCS+ asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hex Color Picker holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hex Color Picker has 44 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of NCS+'s written reviews are positive against 20% of Hex Color Picker's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
NCS+ ships an update every 9 days, Hex Color Picker every 10 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | NCS+ | Hex Color Picker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (6 ratings) | 3.8 (44 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 44 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NCS Colour AB | Hleb Kuznetsov |
Customer experience
NCS+
Hex Color Picker
In-app purchases
NCS+
No in-app purchases
Hex Color Picker
- Premium$7.997 Days
- Premium3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Premium3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Color Kit Pro (Lifetime)$49.99
Questions
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