Comparison

Pastel vs ColorSlurp

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

Head to head
About

Pastel

Easily capture, organize, and use color palettes for your creative projects. Analyze photos to extract dominant colors, or manually select them. Seamlessly sync your library across devices and export colors in various code formats or as pixel bitmaps.

Highlights
  • Capture color palettes from photos
  • Manual color selection
  • Drag and drop colors to other apps
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Export colors in code formats (RGB, hex, Swift)
  • Create custom wallpapers
Features
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Capture and collect color palettes with Pastel! Pastel is an app for amateur developers & artists (like us!) that lets you build up a library of color palettes to use in your projects. With drag & drop on iPad, drag colors out into other apps that support dropped colors, like Pages and Keynote, or many third-party apps from your favorite developers, so you can use your Pastel library as your master color collection across apps. Seamlessly sync your library across devices with iCloud. Analyze photos from the photo library or from Files to determine their dominant colors — choosing specific colors manually if you wish — and save their color palettes to Pastel. Includes a variety of color pickers, like wheel, RGB sliders, and crayons, or pick named colors from your color library that you curate yourself. On iPad, drag and drop from the sidebar to any palette. Copy a variety of developer-focused code representations, like RGB, hex, Objective-C, Swift and SwiftUI. Paste hex codes into the sliders color picker. Copy a pixel bitmap representation of a palette to paste into your favorite pixel editor, share a screen-sized version to set as your wallpaper or Apple Watch face, or export a palette to Procreate®. Create beautiful, colorful wallpapers in various different 2D & 3D styles using Pastel's wallpaper creator. In the free version, try out the built-in library, and add your own palettes up to a limit of 8 items total. Upgrade to the unlimited version using in-app purchase. --- Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/privacy

About

ColorSlurp

This app helps designers and developers boost productivity by picking colors from photos or your camera. It allows for automatic color palette creation, editing, and exporting to various formats. Organize and sync your color collections across devices.

Highlights
  • Pick colors from camera or photos
  • Automatic color palette creation
  • Edit colors with selection tools
  • Copy colors to various formats
  • Organize colors into palettes
  • Sync palettes with iCloud
  • Export colors to multiple file types
Features
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ColorSlurp is the ultimate color productivity booster for designers and developers. • Pick colors using your camera or from any photo! • Create color palettes automatically. • Create and edit colors using an assortment of color selection tools. • Copy colors to a variety of color formats. • Name and organize your colors into palettes, and sync them with iCloud across Mac and iOS. • The swatches panel dynamically creates beautiful harmonies based on the color you're editing. • Export colors to different languages and files: PDF, iPhone wallpaper, ASE, CSS, Sass, Swift, CLR, HTML, JSON, and more! • Looks amazing in dark mode! • Authentic slurp sound when picking colors! # Magnifier The magnifier lets you pick colors using your camera or from any photo. Then copy the color to any format with one click. You can even automatically generate color palettes using different algorithms. # Edit Colors ColorSlurp's powerful color editing tools let you dial in the perfect color. # Formats One-click copies a color to any format for any language. # Palettes Name and organize your colors into palettes. # Sync with iCloud, and Import/Export Sync your palettes between all your devices with iCloud. Create the perfect palette on your phone, then sync it to ColorSlurp on Mac. Export palettes to different languages—CSS, Sass, Swift, HTML, JSON, and more! # Swatches & Color Harmonies Quickly grab a pre-defined color from the swatches panel, or find color harmonies based on the color you're editing. You can even remove opacity from a color while keeping the shade against its background. # ColorSlurp PRO Go PRO and get these awesome features! • Save and copy picked colors from your photos or camera. • Palette Export. • Create unlimited palettes. • Swatches and Color Harmonies. • Support the developer and future features of the app! Terms of Use: https://colorslurp.com/app-terms Privacy Policy: https://colorslurp.com/app-privacy Email: contact@ideapunch.com Twitter: @IdeaPunchLLC

Screenshots

Pastel4 screens
ColorSlurp4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pastel at 4.7 against ColorSlurp's 4.5. Pastel also leads on ratings volume (1.4K vs 94). ColorSlurp's advantage is chart position (#99 vs unranked) and review sentiment (88% vs 76%). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Pastel sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and ColorSlurp sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pastel holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pastel has 1.4K ratings behind it against 94, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Pastel's written reviews are positive against 88% of ColorSlurp's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pastel ships an update monthly, ColorSlurp every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 29, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Pastel versus ColorSlurp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPastelColorSlurp
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better4.5 (94 ratings)
Positive reviews76.2% of reviews87.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.4K — better94
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
Best chart rank—#99 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision ProiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteven Troughton-SmithIdeaPunch

Customer experience

Pastel

All ratings1,443 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews202 reviews
Positive76.2%
Neutral10.4%
Negative13.4%

ColorSlurp

All ratings91 ratings
Positive83.5%
Neutral6.6%
Negative9.9%
Written reviews586 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral3.6%
Negative8.9%

User reviews

Pastel

From 1.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Intuitive and clean interface
  • 🚀 Efficient color management
  • 💡 Ability to import colors from photos
  • 🎨 Great for designers and artists
  • 📦 Seamless integration with Procreate

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Disappearing custom palettes
  • 🔍 Lack of color picker functionality
  • 🤔 Confusing widget behavior
  • 🔀 Issues with rearranging colors in palettes

ColorSlurp

From 94 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy-to-use universal eyedropper tool
  • 🚀 Excellent, well-designed, and unobtrusive
  • 🚀 Essential tool for designers and developers
  • 👍 Simple and effective
  • 👍 Intuitive and functional

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Useless on iPad
  • 💰 Subscription only
  • 💰 Greedy pricing model
  • 🐛 Buggy, crashes, and issues with syncing
  • 👎 Lacks HDR color space support

Bugs and requests

Pastel

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Palettes disappearing after OS updates
  • Delays and freezes when using color wheel
  • Inconsistent behavior on different devices/OSes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Color contrast analysis tools
  • CMYK color support
  • Easier way to copy/paste color codes
  • Improved palette organization and management
  • Integration with more design apps

ColorSlurp

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Picking colors in full screen mode doesn't work
  • Palette management is buggy and inconsistent
  • Crashes when using the color picker tool

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to pick colors from photos in library
  • More customization options for color palettes
  • Integration with Adobe and other design apps
  • Improved multi-monitor support
  • Ability to adjust color values via keyboard
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  • Color contrast and accessibility checking

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pastel

Subscriptions2
  • Pastel (One Month)14 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Pastel (One Year)14 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pastel (Legacy Purchase)$19.99
2 purchases

ColorSlurp

Subscriptions1
  • ColorSlurp Pro Yearly2 variants$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • ColorSlurp PRO$7.99

Questions

Is Pastel free?
Pastel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ColorSlurp free?
ColorSlurp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pastel or ColorSlurp?
Pastel is rated higher. Pastel averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while ColorSlurp averages 4.5 from 94 ratings.
Do Pastel or ColorSlurp have ads?
Neither Pastel nor ColorSlurp shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pastel or ColorSlurp?
Pastel ships an update monthly, and ColorSlurp every 3 weeks. Most recently, Pastel was updated on October 29, 2026 and ColorSlurp on October 29, 2026.

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