Comparison

Pastel vs PocketCI

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

PocketCI

Features
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PocketCI puts your CircleCI projects on your iPhone - clean, fast and built for real debugging, not just dashboards. FOLLOW EVERY PROJECT See all projects in your organizations, not just the ones you follow. Search by project or org, sort by name, and jump straight into the latest pipelines. Pull to refresh. PIPELINES AT A GLANCE A compact feed of recent runs with status, pipeline number, trigger type, branch and commit. Drill in for the full picture. WORKFLOWS AND JOBS Browse every workflow in a pipeline, open the dependency graph, and dive into individual jobs - parallelism, resource class, timing and per-step outcomes. REAL LOGS, ON THE GO Read step-by-step output with exit codes, durations and timings. Failed a build on the train? Find out why before you reach a laptop. TRIGGER, RERUN, CANCEL Kick off a pipeline on any branch or tag, pass pipeline parameters, rerun a workflow from scratch or just from failed jobs, and cancel a runaway workflow or job with one tap. CREDITS AND USAGE Keep an eye on available credits for each org, plus success rates, total runs, duration and credit spend over 24-hour to 90-day windows. MADE FOR ENGINEERS • Personal access token sign-in; your token stays in the iOS Keychain • Multi-org support with a quick org switcher • Pull-to-refresh everywhere, with fast, resumable paging • Native SwiftUI, dark-friendly and tuned for one-handed use NOTE PocketCI is an unofficial client and is not affiliated with CircleCI. A CircleCI account and personal API token are required.

Screenshots

Pastel4 screens
PocketCI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PocketCI at none against Pastel's 3. PocketCI also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). Pastel's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). 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. PocketCI asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pastel ships an update monthly, PocketCI fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pastel versus PocketCI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPastelPocketCI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.4K — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB4 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSteven Troughton-SmithMade by Sloths Limited

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

PocketCI

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

PocketCI

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pastel free?
Pastel is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PocketCI free?
PocketCI is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pastel or PocketCI have ads?
Neither Pastel nor PocketCI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pastel or PocketCI?
Pastel ships an update monthly, and PocketCI fortnightly. Most recently, Pastel was updated on November 1, 2026 and PocketCI on October 29, 2026.

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