Pastel vs Good Vibrations
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Pastel ships an update monthly, Good Vibrations every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pastel | Good Vibrations |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.4K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #116 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Steven Troughton-Smith | MAXX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED |
Customer experience
Pastel
Good Vibrations
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
Pastel
- Pastel (One Month)14 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Pastel (One Year)14 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Pastel (Legacy Purchase)$19.99
Good Vibrations
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Pastel free?
Is Good Vibrations free?
Which has better reviews, Pastel or Good Vibrations?
Do Pastel or Good Vibrations have ads?
Which is updated more often, Pastel or Good Vibrations?
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