Dehancer Color Test vs Cutvey Meter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dehancer Color Test
This experimental tool assesses your ability to perceive colors under various display conditions. It provides two key metrics: the number of colors you can distinguish and how effectively your current perception matches your theoretical potential. Regular use may help improve your visual perception of color nuances.
- Color perception assessment
- Measures perceived colors
- Evaluates perceptual effectiveness
- Aids in improving visual vision
- Based on expert color study
- Anonymized data collection
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Dehancer Color Test is based on the color perception study by co-founders of Dehancer Pavel Kosenko, Nailya Safarova & Denis Svinarchuk, experts in Image Processing. This experimental tool helps you determine how many colours you perceive under different colour target display conditions. The test results include two values: 1. The number of colors you can perceive It is an index of color perception involving short-term memory. In simpler terms, it represents the ability of aesthetic perception under momentary examination. The result depends on the visual experience and your demand for colour nuance. You can take this test regularly to improve your perceptual vision. 2. The current effectiveness of your perception relative to your theoretical potential With some reservations, the potential represents the limit of your physiological ability, as measured at the level of the sensory visual system. Sensory vision is also trainable, but to a lesser extent. Perception depends on lighting conditions, physical and emotional state, and effort. Also, the results may vary over time and as your visual experience improves. The testing method is part of a live experiment, so we admit measurement inaccuracies. The statistics we collect do not contain personal data and are stored in anonymized form. This app is not intended for medical diagnosis. Any result is normal and reflects your personal demand for nuanced color perception. Dehancer’s mission is to preserve the aesthetic heritage by means of digital tools for color correction and lifelike emulation of analog processes and effects. YOUR PRIVACY IS IMPORTANT TO US Please read the Terms of Use as well as the Privacy Policy carefully. All data is handled under the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy of Dehancer. More details can be found here: https://www.dehancer.com/terms_colortest https://www.dehancer.com/privacy_colortest
Cutvey Meter
This app uses your camera to measure light color temperature, tint, and exposure in real-time. It also tracks the sun's path and helps match lighting setups for cinematographers and photographers.
- Real-time Kelvin, tint, and lux readings
- Sun path tracking with hour markers
- Light matching with gel recommendations
- Live ND filter recommendations
- Reading stability indicators
- Save and compare readings with frames
- Customizable calibration for accuracy
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Color meter. Light meter. Sun tracker. ND calculator. Everything you need to nail white balance, tint, exposure and golden hour, on the iPhone and iPad you already carry, and now on Apple Watch. WHITE BALANCE, NAILED Point at a gray card and read the light on every lens your device has: color temperature in kelvin and tint in green and magenta, live. Set it on your camera and roll. Hold LOG for a second opinion, read straight from the sensor's RAW pixels. MATCH EVERY LIGHT Pin one light with REF, or type the color you are shooting for: 3200, 5600, anything. Point at the next fixture and see how far off it is in kelvin and tint, so you know which way to dial it. Still carry gels? It names the LEE or Rosco filter too. Turn on Stops for your key-to-fill ratio. EXPOSURE, SOLVED Lux and EV, live. Set your frame rate, shutter, ISO and stop once, and the right ND for your rig is always on screen. Or solve for any of the four. NO FLICKER. NO SURPRISES. On 50 or 60 Hz power, if your shutter would catch a flickering light, the meter tells you, and fixes it in one tap. CONFIDENCE YOU CAN SEE HIGH, MEDIUM, LOW. Every reading tells you how far to trust it. And when the light itself is the problem, whether flicker, two lights mixing on your gray card or a color past what a camera can read, it says DIFFICULT SOURCE. GOLDEN HOUR, TO THE MINUTE The sun's path, drawn over the live view with the horizon and a compass. Golden hour and blue hour to the minute, here or wherever you shoot next, on that place's own clock. Drag the scrubber to see tomorrow's light today. SCOUT ANY LOCATION Search a place or press and hold to mark one, pick a day, and see the sun's path over the map, how long the shadows run and where you took each reading. Tilt into 3D, or look down from the sun. Share the plan with your crew, with or without the location. ON YOUR WRIST Meter from across the set with Apple Watch. Read the light, log with a Double Tap, browse your logged readings, check your ND, and get a heads-up fifteen minutes before golden hour. Your rig, your last reading and the next window, right on your watch face. EVERY READING, REMEMBERED Each reading saves with the frame you shot. Browse them as a contact sheet, compare any two and see what it takes to match them, or share one in a tap. TUNED TO YOUR METER Own a reference meter? Calibrate each lens against it, and check it at the temperatures you shoot, because a camera drifts from warm to cool. YOUR UNITS. YOUR LANGUAGE. ND as density, stops or factor. T-stop or f-stop. Angle or speed. 12 or 24-hour time. Lux or foot-candles. 41 languages. iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. THE FINE PRINT It is a camera, not a spectrometer. Three color channels cannot see the shape of a spectrum, so a spiky LED can read steady and still be off. Lux is worked out from exposure: close on a gray card, an estimate anywhere else. Tint is a starting point, not a lab measurement. One purchase unlocks it for good, or sign in with an active Cutvey membership. No ads. No third-party tracking. Your readings, frames and location stay on your own devices unless you share them. The map and place search come from Apple Maps. Privacy policy: https://cutvey.com/legal/privacy Terms: https://cutvey.com/legal/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dehancer Color Test at none against Cutvey Meter's 1. Dehancer Color Test also leads on ratings volume (102 vs 2). Cutvey Meter's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Both are free to download. Cutvey Meter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dehancer Color Test asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Dehancer Color Test against 5.0 for Cutvey Meter. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dehancer Color Test has 102 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Dehancer Color Test ships an update every 2 months, Cutvey Meter every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dehancer Color Test | Cutvey Meter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (102 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 102 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dehancer L.L.C-FZ | Cutvey LLC |
Customer experience
Dehancer Color Test
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In-app purchases
Dehancer Color Test
No in-app purchases
Cutvey Meter
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