OYA Colorist vs Color Hints
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OYA Colorist
This app assists hairdressers in formulating hair color, serving as a constant resource. It simplifies the color formulation process and offers a database for those using high volumes of specific hair color products. Additionally, it provides access to online video education for product knowledge and techniques.
- Hair color formulation assistance
- Formula database
- Online video education access
- Product knowledge brushing
- Color technique learning
Read full descriptionHide full description
The OYA COLORIST allows the OYA hairdresser to easily formulate hair color. It represents a 24/7 resource for the hairdresser. The OYA COLORIST is the perfect tool to provide ease and comfort for those that are intimidated by the process of color formulating and it provides an easy-to-use formula database for those hairdressers that apply high volumes of OYA hair color. For those hairdressers that wish to brush-up on their product knowledge and color techniques, the OYA COLORIST allows them to access our OYA online video education at any time from any place.
Color Hints
This app assists users in visualizing and cataloging color relationships. It offers various methods for finding coordinating, matching, or related colors, benefiting designers, artists, and anyone seeking color harmony.
- Visualize color relationships
- Catalog color schemes
- Find coordinating colors
- Match colors effectively
- Color discovery methods
Read full descriptionHide full description
Color Hints helps you to visualize and catalog color relationships. It provides many methods of helping you to find colors that coordinate, match, or otherwise relate. Useful for designers, painters, quilters, students, and anybody else struggling to figure out which color of throw pillows belong on their couch.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: OYA Colorist at 71% against Color Hints's 20%. OYA Colorist also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.1 vs 3.0). On update cadence, ads, 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
OYA Colorist is free to download; Color Hints costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
OYA Colorist holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: OYA Colorist has 13 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of OYA Colorist's written reviews are positive against 20% of Color Hints's.
OYA Colorist ships an update every 5 months, Color Hints every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OYA Colorist | Color Hints |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.1 (13 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13 | 13 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Helias LLC | Jim Calvin |
Customer experience
OYA Colorist
Color Hints
In-app purchases
OYA Colorist
No in-app purchases
Color Hints
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is OYA Colorist free?
Is Color Hints free?
Which has better reviews, OYA Colorist or Color Hints?
Do OYA Colorist or Color Hints have ads?
Which is updated more often, OYA Colorist or Color Hints?
Other comparisons
