Comparison

What Color? vs Poster Maker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

What Color?

Identify colors from photos or codes, access color tables, and mix colors. This tool provides RGB, HEX, and RAL codes, with speech synthesis for color names. Useful for designers, painters, and anyone interested in color.

Highlights
  • Identify color from photos
  • Identify color from codes (RGB, HEX, RAL)
  • Color tables (RAL, PANTONE)
  • Color mixer
  • Speech synthesis for color names
  • Live color analysis
Features
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What Color? is the professional toolkit for identifying, studying and creating colors on iPhone and iPad. IDENTIFY ANY COLOR Point the camera at a surface or choose a photo. Tap the area you care about to see the nearest generic reference, the exact sampled HEX and RGB values, and a confidence indicator. Zoom in, pause live detection, adjust the sampling area and hear the color name spoken aloud. ANALYZE YOUR PHOTOS Move the reticle precisely, open an image full screen, magnify fine details and automatically extract a dominant palette. Share values or save a sample to your library. CONVERT AND COMPARE Work with HEX, RGB, HSL, Lab and OKLCH. Adjust RGB channels numerically or by percentage, copy CSS, SwiftUI and UIKit snippets, compare two colors with CIEDE2000, and check contrast against WCAG AA and AAA criteria. BUILD BETTER PALETTES Blend two colors using multiple models. Generate complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic and monochromatic harmonies, then save your work as reusable palettes. DESIGN FOR ACCESSIBILITY Simulate protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia and achromatopsia. The accessibility lab suggests more distinguishable companions and previews how choices appear across different vision profiles. 206 REFERENCES TO EXPLORE Browse and search a catalog of original generic color references. Open any entry to inspect advanced values, hear its name and save it with one tap. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, cloud, advertising or tracking. Photos, colors, notes and palettes stay on your device, and every feature works offline. Pay once. No subscription and no in-app purchases. Please note: detected color can vary with lighting, camera, display and surface characteristics. Always use calibrated instruments for color-critical work.

About

Poster Maker

Easily create professional-looking posters, invitations, and flyers without design experience. Choose from over 100 templates, stylish fonts, and decorative elements to personalize your creations. Save and share your designs as images or PDFs.

Highlights
  • 100+ pre-made poster templates
  • 50+ stylish fonts
  • 150+ decorative elements
  • 30+ professional filters
  • Save and share as PDF/image
  • My Collection for saved designs
  • Multiple design categories
Features
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Poster Maker has now made designing personalised portfolios, posters, and designs super quick, easy, and effortless. You don’t need to have design skills to make striking posters. Now elevate your portfolio and flyer games by selecting from 100+ pre-made posters, 50+ stylish fonts, and 150+ elements! It's time to make your work more professional and put it out there for all to see! Whether you just want to showcase your artwork, create a fancy invite for an event or just put out flyers for your real estate. Use the posters to instantly and quickly create brochures to share them with the world. Our key features? - Get access to 100+ posters and select the one best suited to your occasion and purpose. - Mix and match different posters across different categories to best suit your thought and design process. - Share and save your designs as PDFs or images and share them on social media. - Fonts: Add color and style to your design by selecting from multiple stylish fonts. - Filters: Enhance your images by choosing from 30+ professional-grade filters. - Elements: Use the key elements based on categories that best suit your design purpose. - My Collection: We know you hold your creations dearly. Hence, you can access the saved ones in your collection space to share them as and when needed. -You can choose from the following themes or categories to create your masterpieces: -Invitation -Collage -Profile -Photography -Creative -Travel -Restaurant -Portfolio -Real Estate -Promotion This is not all!!! We are constantly working on increasing the number of themes and posters, so if you have any suggestions, do let us know at feedback@maximaapps.com! Also, do not miss the details. Here is the required content for you. Privacy Policy: maximaapps.com/policy/privacy_policy.html Terms of Use: maximaapps.com/policy/terms_of_use.html

Screenshots

What Color?4 screens
Poster Maker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Poster Maker at Free against What Color?'s $4.99. Poster Maker also leads on ratings volume (121 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). What Color?'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (67% vs 44%). On update cadence, 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

Poster Maker is free to download; What Color? costs $4.99 up front. Poster Maker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. What Color? asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

What Color? holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Poster Maker has 121 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of What Color?'s written reviews are positive against 44% of Poster Maker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

What Color? ships an update every 4 weeks, Poster Maker every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
What Color? versus Poster Maker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhat Color?Poster Maker
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.8 (121 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better44.4% of reviews
Number of ratings1121 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#140 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB156 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperValgyMaxima Apps

Customer experience

What Color?

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Poster Maker

All ratings121 ratings
Positive95.9%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive44.4%
Neutral11.1%
Negative44.4%

In-app purchases

None

What Color?

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Poster Maker

Subscriptions2
  • Poster Maker Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Poster Maker Pro Yearly$29.991 Year

Questions

Is What Color? free?
What Color? costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Poster Maker free?
Poster Maker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, What Color? or Poster Maker?
What Color? is rated higher. What Color? averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Poster Maker averages 4.8 from 121 ratings.
Do What Color? or Poster Maker have ads?
Neither What Color? nor Poster Maker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, What Color? or Poster Maker?
What Color? ships an update every 4 weeks, and Poster Maker every 6 weeks. Most recently, What Color? was updated on November 2, 2026 and Poster Maker on November 3, 2026.

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