Simple Color Palette vs Hex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Color Palette
Create, view, and edit color palettes in a specific file format. Supports importing popular swatch formats and provides previews for your color collections. Ideal for maintaining brand consistency and sharing color schemes.
- Create and edit color palettes
- View color palettes (.color-palette)
- Import .ase and .clr files
- Quick Look preview
- Thumbnail generation
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View, create, and edit color palettes in the Simple Color Palette format (.color-palette). The app also provides Quick Look preview and thumbnails for such files. A color palette is a collection of colors with optional names, essential for designers to maintain consistent branding, create cohesive user interfaces, and share color schemes across projects and teams. This is not a palette organizer app—it's focused on individual palettes. It supports importing Adobe Swatch Exchange (.ase) and Color List (.clr) palettes. See the website for more info about the Simple Color Palette format.
Hex
Create, save, and organize custom colors with their hex codes. Export palettes to drawing software to maintain project consistency. Includes a hex code to color converter for easy color matching.
- Create custom colors
- Save and organize colors
- Generate hex codes
- Export color palettes
- Hex code to color converter
- Maintain project consistency
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Hex It allows artists and designers to create and save custom colors and get their hex codes. Colors can be organized into palettes which can then be exported to drawing software for use. It also contains a convenient hex code to color converter. This app will organize all your favorite colors in one easily accessible place, so you will be able to maintain consistency during projects.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hex at every 2 days against Simple Color Palette's every 4 weeks. Hex also leads on iOS requirement (16.1 vs 26.0). Simple Color Palette's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Simple Color Palette against 5.0 for Hex. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Simple Color Palette ships an update every 4 weeks, Hex every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Color Palette | Hex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sindre Sorhus | Haverford Township School District |
In-app purchases
Simple Color Palette
No in-app purchases
Hex
No in-app purchases
