Color Board vs Spectangle Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color Board
This utility app allows users to create vibrant color boards and display large, customizable text on their iPhone and iPad. It's ideal for presentations, events, or making bold statements with adjustable colors, backgrounds, and text effects.
- Create pure color boards
- Display big, customizable text
- Choose background and text colors
- Twinkle mode for flashing effects
- Adjustable font size and speed
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Color Board – Big Text & Pure Colors Color Board is a simple yet powerful tool designed for iPhone and iPad. Whether you need to display a big, clear message or create a vibrant color board, this app makes it easy and effective. With customizable colors, backgrounds, and text, you can instantly turn your device into a bold display. Perfect for presentations, events, or simply grabbing attention. Key Features: • Create pure color boards on iPhone and iPad • Display big, customizable text • Choose any background or text color • Twinkle mode for flashing color effects • Adjustable font size and speed settings Bring your message to life with Color Board – where text meets color in the simplest way.
Spectangle Pro
This app uses a single image to capture precise eyewear measurements, aiding in frame selection and demonstrating lens benefits. It offers interactive augmented reality demos for various lens options and coatings.
- Eyewear measurements from one image
- Frame selection comparison
- Interactive lens demonstrations
- Augmented reality lens demos
- Multi-lingual support
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Spectangle Pro captures all of your eyewear measurements using one single frontal image. FEATURES: • EYEWEAR MEASUREMENTS WITH ONE IMAGE* The Spectangle Pro app allows you to capture all eyewear measurements using one single frontal image. This portable solution offers you precise, quick and complete measurements. Using our patented EY-stick, you can be taller or shorter than the patient and capture precise measurements. This is the only solution on the market where you will not need to be at the same eye level to capture the measurement image. Measurements captured: Monocular PDs, Seg. Heights, Pantoscopic Tilt, Rear Vertex Distance, Wrap, A, B, ED, DBL. • FRAME SELECTION PICTURE COMPARISON The Frame Selection module enables customers to see how they look like in different eyewear. The side-by-side image comparison exposes the customer to frames of different styles, resulting in an increase in multiple-frame sales. Email and Facebook features provide quick second opinions. • INTERACTIVE LENS DEMONSTRATIONS* Complement your lens sales presentations with interactive demonstrations. The Lens Demos module allows you to demonstrate the advantages of premium lens options in a quick and interactive way. Demos available: AR Coating, High-Index, Photochromic, Polarization, Progressives, Color Tints. • AUGMENTED REALITY DEMOS* Use the camera lens on the iPad and show how one can see through different lens options. You can build your lens by selecting the lens type, the coating and tints and very effectively compare two lens configurations. Multi-Lingual Support: English, Spanish --------------------------------------- * Compatibility requirements: The Spectangle Pro Flash Accessory is required for eyewear measurements, lens demonstrations and augmented reality demos.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Spectangle Pro at 5.0 against Color Board's 1.6. Spectangle Pro also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Color Board's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1). 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. Color Board sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Spectangle Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Spectangle Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Board has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Color Board ships an update every 2 months, Spectangle Pro every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color Board | Spectangle Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 2.2 GB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 文睿 李 | Hoya Lens Of Chicago, Inc. |
In-app purchases
Color Board
- Remove Ads$0.99
Spectangle Pro
No in-app purchases
Questions
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