Comparison

Color Palettes vs Meshwork

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

Head to head
About

Color Palettes

Features
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Boreal – The Ultimate Color Palette Generator for iOS Boreal is your all-in-one tool for creating, editing, and sharing stunning color palettesβ€”perfect for designers, artists, and developers. ## INSTANT PALETTE GENERATOR ## Generate beautiful, ready-to-use color schemes with a single tap. Fast, intuitive, and endlessly inspiring. ## PRECISE COLOR EDITING ## Customize your palette with ease. Add or remove colors and fine-tune each one using HEX, RGB, HSB/HSV, HSL, or CMYK. ## ADVANCED COLOR HARMONY TOOLS ## Want a palette based on complementary, triadic, or analogous harmony? Just choose your method and Boreal will generate it for you. ## FAVORITES ## Save your favorite palettes or individual colors for quick access later. ## EMOTION CHEATSHEET ## Explore the emotional impact of colors with our color psychology guideβ€”great for branding and UX work. ## HARMONY CHEATSHEET ## Brush up on color theory with a handy reference to different harmony types. ## SEAMLESS SHARING ## Export your palettes as PNG, PDF, or SVG, or share a unique link to preview your palette on the web. Easily send to your computer, teammates, or friends.

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Meshwork

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Meshwork makes wallpapers on your phone. Not a gallery of downloads β€” a generator. Every wallpaper you see was drawn the moment you opened the app, and no two are ever the same. THREE FAMILIES Gradients β€” soft mesh blobs, directional colour fields with visible folds, clean linear fades, and radial glows. Geometry β€” faceted bars, triangles, rings, waves, and grids, each tile coloured from the gradient beneath it. Lines β€” dense fields of lit strokes bending across black, with the moirΓ© that comes from drawing them densely. THIRTEEN CURATED PALETTES Tokyo Night, Peach Sunset, Vaporwave, Pastel Dream, Deep Ocean, Ember, Mint Fresh, Midnight, Citrus Pop, Orchid Haze, and three dark sets built for Lines. Colours are chosen, never random, which is the difference between a wallpaper and noise. DESIGN YOUR OWN Open Create and build one from scratch. Pick two to six colours from sixty swatches, choose a style, then tune it β€” blob count, softness, angle, pattern density, light position. The preview updates as you drag. SEE IT BEFORE YOU SET IT Preview any wallpaper full screen behind a mock Lock or Home screen, so you can judge whether the clock and your icons stay readable. That is what actually decides if a wallpaper works. EXPORTS AT YOUR SCREEN'S TRUE SIZE Downloads render at your device's native resolution, not a scaled-up preview. Choose PNG, WebP, or JPEG. Watch an ad to unlock 4K export. KEEP WHAT YOU LIKE Tap the heart, or press and hold any thumbnail. Saved wallpapers are stored as a recipe rather than an image, so they cost almost nothing and still export at full size whenever you come back. NO ACCOUNT, NO SERVER There is nothing to sign up for. Meshwork has no backend, and your wallpapers never leave your phone unless you save them yourself. A NOTE ON SETTING WALLPAPERS iOS does not let any app change your wallpaper for you β€” that is an Apple restriction, not our choice. Meshwork saves to Photos at full resolution and shows you the two taps that finish the job. Remove ads with a single payment. It is not a subscription.

Screenshots

Color Palettes4 screens
Meshwork4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Color Palettes at none against Meshwork's 1. Color Palettes also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Meshwork sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Color Palettes asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Color Palettes versus Meshwork: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColor PalettesMeshwork
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysβ€”
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 β€” better15.1
Further details β€” not scored
Size36 MB49 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperAfter Dark AppsMoin Pate

In-app purchases

None

Color Palettes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Meshwork

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Color Palettes free?
Color Palettes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Meshwork free?
Meshwork is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Color Palettes or Meshwork have ads?
Both Color Palettes and Meshwork show ads.

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