Comparison

Pastel vs UXtweak

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

UXtweak

Record your screen and voice while testing websites and apps to provide direct feedback. Answer questions about your user experience to help designers improve their products. Explore a sample study to understand the process.

Highlights
  • Record screen and voice feedback
  • Answer experience-based questions
  • Participate in mobile testing studies
  • Test website and app usability
  • Provide insights to designers
Features
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UXtweak's app for conducting usability testing studies. UXtweak is a powerful UX research platform offering tools for improving usability of web sites and apps, from prototypes to production. Provide useful insights to app and web designers directly from your iPhone! Record how you use their products, answer questions about your experience, and help make their apps and websites better and more UX friendly! Features - Record your screen (and your voice) while you use an app and provide instant feedback to the app (web) designer - Answer questions describing your experience with the tested app - Try out what a Mobile Testing study looks like through the Try example study function Note: this app is intended for use with UXtweak Mobile Testing, Website Testing and/or Prototype Testing study links. These links will be provided to you by the app designer, developer, or UX researcher. You can try out the functionality of this app by tapping the Try example study button on the app's homescreen.

Screenshots

Pastel4 screens
UXtweak4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: UXtweak at none against Pastel's 3. UXtweak also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). Pastel's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. UXtweak asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Pastel versus UXtweak: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPastelUXtweak
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.2% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.4K — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#134 — better#208
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB77 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSteven Troughton-SmithUXtweak j. s. a.

Customer experience

Pastel

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

UXtweak

Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

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

UXtweak

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
None

UXtweak

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pastel free?
Pastel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is UXtweak free?
UXtweak is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pastel or UXtweak have ads?
Neither Pastel nor UXtweak shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pastel or UXtweak?
Pastel ships an update monthly, and UXtweak monthly. Most recently, Pastel was updated on November 10, 2026 and UXtweak on November 7, 2026.
Which is more popular, Pastel or UXtweak?
Pastel currently peaks at #134 in the App Store charts, and UXtweak at #208. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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