Comparison

Pastel vs HapticHub

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

HapticHub

This tool allows developers to simulate and generate code for haptic feedback effects on iOS. It offers real-time previews of vibration patterns and intensities, streamlining the integration of custom haptic experiences into applications.

Highlights
  • Comprehensive haptic effect simulation
  • Real-time vibration preview
  • Seamless code generation
  • Streamlined development workflow
  • Customizable haptic experiences
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HapticHub Offers: - Comprehensive simulation of standard and custom haptic effects - Real-time preview of vibration patterns, intensities, and durations - Seamless code generation for easy integration into your app - Streamlined development workflow to optimize haptic responsiveness Elevate Your App's Haptic Experiences Unlock the full potential of iOS haptic feedback with our powerful simulation tool. Quickly test and integrate haptic effects, from standard system vibrations to fully customizable experiences. Save time, reduce development cycles, and deliver exceptional haptic-enabled apps to your users.

Screenshots

Pastel4 screens
HapticHub3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Pastel at 1.4K against HapticHub's 1. Pastel also leads on device support (4 vs 1). HapticHub's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 HapticHub sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

HapticHub holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pastel has 1.4K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pastel versus HapticHub: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPastelHapticHub
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.4K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.4K — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteven Troughton-Smith心雨 郭

Customer experience

Pastel

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

HapticHub

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

HapticHub

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
1 purchases

HapticHub

One-time1
  • Unlock to export$1.99

Questions

Is Pastel free?
Pastel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HapticHub free?
HapticHub is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pastel or HapticHub?
HapticHub is rated higher. Pastel averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while HapticHub averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pastel or HapticHub have ads?
Neither Pastel nor HapticHub shows ads.

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