ColorAssist vs Color Tools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ColorAssist
This app uses your device's camera to identify colors in real-time, providing their RGB, HSL, CMYK, and HTML values. It can convert captured colors to nearly 900 named colors and allows you to manage and share color sample sets.
- Real-time camera color capture
- RGB, RYB, HSL, CMYK, HTML conversions
- Closest color name from 900+ options
- Adjustable focus and contrast
- Targeted color sampling
- Manage and email color sample sets
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Use the camera to capture RGB values in real-time and convert them to the closest color name from a dictionary of nearly 900 colors. Also available: RYB, HSL and CMYK values, HTML color code, closest HTML color name, and simple color name. Touch a color square to view the information for that sample at any time. "Auto" uses the camera's auto focus and auto contrast adjustment feature. "Lock" fixes or locks the current contrast setting. And "Target" allows you to touch any area of the screen to select that spot as the source for the color sample (in cases where moving the device would disrupt the focus/contrast, or where the device is mounted in a fixed position). Manage named color sample sets on the Edit screen. After organizing a sample set, email the color samples with color chips, with color chips and a selected photo, or as text only. On the Options screen, select which color conversions to display, and set the spacial and temporal apertures from 1x1 to 50x50 pixels, and 1 to 30 frames. Touch the "Target" selector then touch the screen to move the sample location without moving the device. App Store screen shots simulated Photo copyright E. Huybrechts https://www.flickr.com/photos/ensh/4769294947/in/album-72157607460583769/ Modified and used under license: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Color Tools
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With this simple but very useful app you can visualize, convert and calculate any RGB colors. You can convert the RGB values in various formats (decimal, hexadecimal and more).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Color Tools at Free against ColorAssist's $1.99. Color Tools also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). ColorAssist's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, in-app purchases 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
Color Tools is free to download; ColorAssist costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ColorAssist ships an update every 5 months, Color Tools every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ColorAssist | Color Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FTLapps LLC | Raffaele Amuso |
In-app purchases
ColorAssist
No in-app purchases
Color Tools
No in-app purchases
