Comparison

Pastel vs URL Redirector

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

URL Redirector

Instantly reopen any link through a different website, such as an archive, cached version, or translation tool. Set up multiple destinations and easily switch your default. Ideal for developers, researchers, and those who frequently use various link-based tools.

Highlights
  • Forward links through custom destinations
  • Supports archives, cached versions, and translation tools
  • Set up multiple destinations
  • Easily switch default destinations
  • Integrates with app sharing functionality
Features
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URL Redirector lets you instantly reopen any link through a different website — an archive, a cached version, a translation tool, or a custom endpoint you define yourself. Just tap Share in any app, choose URL Redirector, and your link is forwarded to whichever destination you've set up. Add multiple destinations and switch your default with a tap. Useful for developers, researchers, and anyone who regularly works with links across different tools and services.his App provides forwarding a website address to another website. Great for processing in external websites, tools and software development

Screenshots

Pastel4 screens
URL Redirector4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pastel at 4.7 against URL Redirector's 1.0. Pastel also leads on ratings volume (1.4K vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). URL Redirector's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price 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. URL Redirector asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pastel holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. 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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pastel versus URL Redirector: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPastelURL Redirector
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews76.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.4K — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteven Troughton-SmithStefan Sels

Customer experience

Pastel

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

URL Redirector

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

URL Redirector

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

URL Redirector

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pastel free?
Pastel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is URL Redirector free?
URL Redirector is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pastel or URL Redirector?
Pastel is rated higher. Pastel averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings, while URL Redirector averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pastel or URL Redirector have ads?
Neither Pastel nor URL Redirector shows ads.

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