Comparison

Developer Colour Palette vs ViewSource+

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

Head to head
About

Developer Colour Palette

Easily select, convert, and organize colors for your projects. Generate palettes from images or AI prompts, and share them with your team. Syncs across Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Color picker and value conversion (HEX, RGB, Swift)
  • Organize colors into palettes
  • Cloud sync across Apple devices
  • Share palettes with team members
  • Import images to extract colors
  • AI-powered palette generation
  • AI color detection from objects
Features
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Developer Colour Palette helps you to choose, convert, organise and share the colours that you use for the projects that you are working on. Choose a colour using the built in colour picker, or enter the colour values to see them converted to HEX, RGB and Swift code. You can then copy the colour codes with a single tap to use in your projects. The app automatically shows your recently used colours for reuse and allows you to add frequently used colours to your favourites. You can organise your colours further, by grouping them in to different palettes for each project or brand that you are working with, name the colours to describe what part of the project they are being used for and write notes on each palette and colour. The palettes you create and colours you add will be automatically synced to the cloud and accessible on all of your Apple devices. You can also share these palettes with other members of your design team or with a client, so that you are all working from the same colour palette. Invite others to your palette and set permissions for each person you invite, granting or denying them read, add, edit or remove access. You can also see any palettes that you have been sent within the app and choose to accept or deny the invitation, to add the palette to your shared list. The palettes you create and the palettes that are shared with you are automatically grouped and separated. Import an image, client’s logo or style guide file from your photo library, files or camera and use the magnified colour picker to choose a specific colour from the image. The app will automatically scan the image using AI and detect the dominant colours within the image. Once it has extracted the colours, you can create a new palette containing these colours with a single tap. If you need a little help with inspiration or to find the right colour for your project, you can use the AI Assistant tool to generate a palette or get the colour of an object. Enter a phrase such as “The sea” to see various shades of blue, “Giraffe” to see the colours of a giraffe or “New York Taxi” to be shown the colour code of the New York Taxi yellow. Once the assistant has detected the colours, you can then create a palette with these colours and it is automatically named from your search phrase. *Subscription required for some features described above, including cloud palettes, sharing features and AI features - Monthly usage limits apply to AI features. - Subscription Details - Developer Colour Palette requires a monthly subscription after your 14 day free trial. Your subscription can be cancelled at any time. No long term commitment required. Subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew unless automatic renewal is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions and automatic renewal status in Account Settings after purchase. Price may vary by location. Privacy Policy: https://smudge.app/privacy Terms and Conditions: https://smudge.app/app-terms

About

ViewSource+

Features
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ViewSource+ lets you inspect the source code of any website in seconds. Open a page in Safari, tap Share, then choose Open in ViewSource+. The app fetches the page source and displays it in a clean, readable code viewer with syntax highlighting. Built for developers, designers, students, and anyone curious about how websites are made. What you can do: -View HTML source from any website -Automatically detect and highlight HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP -Search within code with highlighted matches, result counts, and next/previous navigation -View useful fetch details including HTTP status, content type, file size, load time, and final URL -Adjust code font size for easier reading -Copy source code to the clipboard -Switch between Light, Dark, or System appearance -Open pages directly from Safari using the share sheet ViewSource+ is fast, simple, and focused on doing one thing well: letting you see the code behind the web. No accounts. No tracking. No clutter.

Screenshots

Developer Colour Palette4 screens
ViewSource+3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ViewSource+ at Free against Developer Colour Palette's $0.49. ViewSource+ also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Developer Colour Palette's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months) and chart position (#136 vs unranked). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

ViewSource+ is free to download; Developer Colour Palette costs $0.49 up front. Developer Colour Palette sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. ViewSource+ asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Developer Colour Palette ships an update monthly, ViewSource+ every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Developer Colour Palette versus ViewSource+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDeveloper Colour PaletteViewSource+
Price$0.49Free — better
Rating1.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
Best chart rank#136 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB7 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperThomas Coomer1BIGRIG Ltd

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Developer Colour Palette

Subscriptions1
  • Cloud Palettes14 Days trial$2.991 Month
None

ViewSource+

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Developer Colour Palette free?
Developer Colour Palette costs $0.49, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is ViewSource+ free?
ViewSource+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Developer Colour Palette or ViewSource+ have ads?
Neither Developer Colour Palette nor ViewSource+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Developer Colour Palette or ViewSource+?
Developer Colour Palette ships an update monthly, and ViewSource+ every 2 months. Most recently, Developer Colour Palette was updated on October 8, 2026 and ViewSource+ on October 20, 2026.

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