SketchMee vs Colorimeter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SketchMee
Transform your photos into unique pencil sketches with this advanced app. It analyzes and redraws images from scratch, offering unparalleled art quality and a vast range of styles. Save your creations in high resolution and explore intricate details.
- Photo to sketch conversion
- Analyzes and redraws from scratch
- Vector curve based sketches
- Adjustable art styles
- 4K resolution saving
- High zoom detail inspection
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The photo-to-sketch app that stands out from the rest! SketchMee analyses, interprets and redraws your photo from scratch, instead of the simple edge filtering other apps do. New York Times sums it up: "This app turns your photos into pencil sketches of remarkable quality." Long time feature under "Staff Favorites / Impress Your Friends" in the US App Store. Just pick an image from your photo library, and watch it being sketched into a beautiful piece of art. Have endless fun playing around with settings, exploring a vast world of art possibilities. Extremely easy to use. A handful of simple but powerful controls make you the artist in charge, enabling a wide range of different sketch art styles. Unparalleled art quality. Not even desktop computer programs come close. Save your creations in 4K resolution. Zoom as deep as you like into the finished sketches to inspect the strokes. Your art will appear perfectly sharp at any zoom level. This is because sketches are built using vector curves, not from blocky pixel data.
Colorimeter
This app uses your iPhone camera to identify colors from real-world objects. It displays the selected color's HTML hex code and RGB values. Features include low-light compatibility and white balance locking for accurate color capture.
- Camera-based color identification
- HTML hex code display
- RGB component display
- Low light compatibility
- White balance lock
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Colorimeter is your professional color picker. Just point your iPhone camera to an object and tap in the video image. Colorimeter displays the selected color in HTML hex code and RGB components. Colorimeter is low light compatible: Antialising rendering deletes any noise in the video image. By touching the "WBal Lock" button you can lock the white balance to get unmanipulated real world colors.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SketchMee at 87% against Colorimeter's 0%. SketchMee also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 86 months). Colorimeter's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $4.99) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
SketchMee costs $4.99 and Colorimeter $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SketchMee ships an update every 4 months, Colorimeter every 86 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SketchMee | Colorimeter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (142 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 87.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 142 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 86 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Studio Mee | Christian Hahn |
Customer experience
SketchMee
Colorimeter
Bugs and requests
SketchMee
Reported bugs
4 issues- Pdf save not working
- Can't save sketches
- Crashes when selecting picture to sketch
- Rotates photos taken with native camera 90 degrees
Requested features
7 requests- Update it
- Increase contrast option
- Add blur tool
- Add better control over contrast
- Include camera capture that applies the effect settings right after the image is taken
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- Add color sketches
- Add different types of shading
Colorimeter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SketchMee
No in-app purchases
Colorimeter
No in-app purchases









