Comparison

Pastel vs Good Vibrations

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

Good Vibrations

This application serves as an editor for haptic pattern files specifically designed for Good Vibrations. It allows users to create and modify these patterns for enhanced tactile feedback experiences.

Highlights
  • Haptic pattern file editing
  • Customizable tactile feedback
  • File management for patterns
  • Developer tool for haptics
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Editor for Good Vibrations Haptic Pattern files.

Screenshots

Pastel4 screens
Good Vibrations4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Good Vibrations at none against Pastel's 3. Good Vibrations also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Pastel's advantage is ratings volume (1.4K vs 1) and chart position (#116 vs unranked). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Good Vibrations asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Good Vibrations 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pastel ships an update monthly, Good Vibrations every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Pastel versus Good Vibrations: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPastelGood Vibrations
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.4K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.4K — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#116 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB6 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperSteven Troughton-SmithMAXX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

Customer experience

Pastel

All ratings1,434 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral2.8%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews165 reviews
Positive73.9%
Neutral10.9%
Negative15.2%

Good Vibrations

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

Good Vibrations

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

Good Vibrations

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pastel free?
Pastel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Good Vibrations free?
Good Vibrations is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pastel or Good Vibrations?
Good Vibrations is rated higher. Pastel averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while Good Vibrations averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pastel or Good Vibrations have ads?
Neither Pastel nor Good Vibrations shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pastel or Good Vibrations?
Pastel ships an update monthly, and Good Vibrations every 4 days. Most recently, Pastel was updated on September 24, 2026 and Good Vibrations on September 17, 2026.

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