Color Palette Designer vs Hex Code Tiles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color Palette Designer
Generate custom color palettes with precise control over HSL values and HEX codes. Explore 138 seasonal palettes or create your own with a customizable grid. Export your designs as high-quality PNG images.
- Create palettes with HSL and HEX values
- Fine-tune color swatches, rows, and columns
- 138 built-in seasonal color palettes
- Customizable grid layout
- Export palettes as PNG
- Random palette generator
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Build stunning color palettes with precision and ease — then export them anywhere. Whether you're a designer, artist, or developer, Color Palette Designer gives you full control over hue, saturation, and lightness (HSL), or enter exact HEX color codes to match any vision. This intuitive color scheme generator and palette maker is built for creatives who need flexible, professional color tools. Start with a customizable grid layout and adjust the lightness of rows or hue of columns to build balanced and harmonious color schemes. Edit each color manually or generate a random palette to spark new ideas. Get inspired with a collection of 138 built-in seasonal color palettes based on the 12 seasonal types — like Clear Spring, Soft Summer, Warm Autumn, or Deep Winter. Perfect for personal color analysis, fashion, styling, and design work, these built-in palettes make it easy to explore and apply seasonal color theory in your projects. Customize your palette layout with adjustable field margins, cell sizes, and palette dimensions. Then export your work as a high-quality PNG image for sharing or reference. Key features: - Create color palettes using HSL and HEX color values - Fine-tune each color swatch, row lightness, and column hue - 138 built-in seasonal color palettes based on the 12-season color system - Supports HEX codes for precision editing - Customizable swatch grid layout and palette settings - Export palettes as PNG images - Add custom titles and notes to your palettes - One-tap random palette generator for fresh ideas - View palettes in full-screen color swatch mode Download free and start building your perfect color palette today.
Hex Code Tiles
Discover and explore over 35,000 named hex colors, perceptually arranged for visual similarity. Easily copy color codes, view details, and organize favorites. Offers various browsing and grid customization options for a personalized color discovery experience.
- 35,000+ named hex colors
- Perceptually arranged colors
- One-tap copy (hex, RGB, HSL)
- Full-screen color view
- Browse by hue or shade
- Customizable grid layout
- Offline access
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Hex Code Tiles is a color finder for everyone who lives in color. 35,000+ named hex colors, arranged so neighbors actually look like neighbors. Scroll, tap, copy. Find the exact shade you didn't know you were looking for — for a design, a paint job, a website, a sticker, a sweater, a sunset you can't stop thinking about. It's not a clinical picker. It's a place to spend time. — A WHOLE WORLD OF COLOR — • 35,000+ named hex colors, drawn from the most respected color libraries • Perceptually arranged: similar colors really do sit next to each other • Smooth, endless, satisfying to scroll • Light and dark modes — both gorgeous • Universal: native on iPhone and iPad — TAP ANY TILE — • Instant card: name, hex, RGB, HSL • One-tap copy in any format • Beautiful full-screen view — perfect for sharing or staring at • Long-press to favorite — your collection follows you everywhere — FIND IT YOUR WAY — • Browse by hue: reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, purples, pinks, neutrals • Or by named shade: Salmon, Rose, Crimson, Cantaloupe, Tea Rose, Mexican Pink, hundreds more • 8 free curated collections: Pastels, Neon, Earth Tones, Ocean, Sunset, Black & White, Jewel Tones, Skin Tones • Search by name — "coral", "teal", "mauve" • Or paste a hex — #FF2841 lands you right there — SHAPE THE GRID — • Cohesive, Balanced, or Diverse — set how the tiles relate to each other • Grid sizes from cozy 7×11 to dense 11×15 • Tile borders on or off — your call • Tap any tile and the entire palette retunes around it — HEX CODE TILES PRO — A single $4.99 unlock. No subscription. No recurring charges. Restores on any device signed into your Apple ID. For when you want the whole toolkit: • 8 premium collections — Autumn, Spring, Winter, Retro, Wedding, Military, Japanese Traditional, Wikipedia Colors • Color Harmonies — Complementary, Triadic, Analogous, Split Complementary, generated live • Accessibility checker — WCAG contrast ratings at a glance • Custom grid sizes — fine-tune from 5×7 to 11×15 • Pro gradient themes — Sunset, Ocean, Aurora • All future Pro features included, forever — BUILT BY HAND — Made by one developer who got tired of every color picker on the App Store and wanted something that felt like a real place. Every color has a hand-checked name. The grid is generated by a perceptual model in CIELAB color space, not alphabetical order or hex distance. Animations are tuned to feel like rippling water. Sound is optional, dynamic, and never intrusive. — PRIVACY BY DEFAULT — • No accounts, no sign-in, ever • No tracking, no analytics, no ads • No third-party SDKs of any kind • Fully offline — the entire color database ships inside the app • Your favorites stay on your device Hex Code Tiles communicates with Apple's App Store and nothing else. — FOR THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN COLOR — Designers and developers. Painters and illustrators. Photographers, brand teams, knitters, tattoo artists, decorators. Kids who love rainbows, adults who never stopped. Anyone who's ever wanted to find a color and felt let down by every picker on the App Store. Free forever for casual browsing. Pro when you want the whole toolkit.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hex Code Tiles at 5.0 against Color Palette Designer's 4.6. Color Palette Designer's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Color Palette Designer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Hex Code Tiles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Hex Code Tiles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Palette Designer has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Color Palette Designer | Hex Code Tiles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Peter Kulisek | Alexander Knigge |
Customer experience
Color Palette Designer
Hex Code Tiles
In-app purchases
Color Palette Designer
- Premium Functions$4.99
Hex Code Tiles
- Hex Code Tiles Pro$4.99
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