Comparison

Pastel vs Colour Well

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

Colour Well

Features
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Colour Well is an app to test colour combinations, and display useful colour information. You can see how your chosen colour: - mixes with common colours; - changes with different hues, saturations & lightnesses; - contrasts against black, white, and a second chosen colour. For your two chosen colours, Red-Green-Blue colour information will be displayed (useful for coding, web design and for paint programs) as: - a hex triplet - RGB values: ratios (0.0-1.0) - RGB values: bytes (0-255)

Screenshots

Pastel4 screens
Colour Well1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Colour Well at none against Pastel's 3. Colour Well also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Colour Well asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pastel versus Colour Well: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPastelColour Well
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.4K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSteven Troughton-SmithPhilip Gottschalk

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

Colour Well

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

Colour Well

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pastel free?
Pastel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Colour Well free?
Colour Well is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pastel or Colour Well have ads?
Neither Pastel nor Colour Well shows ads.

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