Chatometer vs Colors Unlocked
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chatometer
This app provides fun insights into your messaging habits by analyzing chat data. It reveals message counts, activity trends, and word usage, all processed securely offline. An optional in-app purchase unlocks the ability to analyze more than three conversations.
- Message, word, and character totals
- Messaging activity over time
- Most active hours and days
- Top words and emoji analysis
- Longest words sent
- Offline chat analysis
- iCloud sync across devices
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Chatometer securely analyzes your chats to give fun insights. Discover: - Message, word, and character totals - Messaging activity over time - Most active hours and days - Top words and emoji - Longest words sent Privacy: All analysis is performed offline and is not shared. iCloud keeps your chats up to date across your devices. Chatometer Plus: A once-off in-app purchase lets you import more than three chats. The feature can be shared with everyone in your family group. Chatometer is not affiliated with any messaging service.
Colors Unlocked
This app uses your phone's camera to identify colors on screen, providing their names, values, and visual context. It's designed to assist individuals with colorblindness, aid in environmental exploration, and support design work by offering detailed color insights.
- Camera-based color identification
- Provides color names and values
- Offers visual context for colors
- Assists with colorblindness
- Useful for design professionals
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Know every color, instantly. Point your camera at anything and Colors Unlocked tells you what color it is, in plain words you can actually picture. Built for people with color blindness, and handy for anyone who wants to be sure. SEE IT, NAME IT • Live color names as you move your camera • Plain shade words like "muted", "dark" or "leans blue", plus the color family • Hear colors read aloud • Tap anywhere to pick a spot, or average an area for steady readings on fabric and textures FIND COLORS FAST • Highlight mode outlines chosen colors right in the camera view • Freeze the picture and drag to explore every part of it • Pick colors from photos in your library • Flashlight and brightness boost for dim rooms KEEP WHAT MATTERS • Save colors under your own names • History of every color you've picked EVERYDAY QUESTIONS, ANSWERED Is this shirt navy or black? Which wire is red? Is the fruit ripe? Do these socks match? COLORS UNLOCKED PRO A one-time purchase adds Tint and Pattern highlighting, your own highlight colors, and unlimited saved colors. All core color identification stays free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Colors Unlocked at none against Chatometer's 1. Colors Unlocked also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Chatometer's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (5 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. Chatometer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Colors Unlocked asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Chatometer against 5.0 for Colors Unlocked. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chatometer has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Chatometer ships an update every 5 days, Colors Unlocked every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chatometer | Colors Unlocked |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicholas Baughan | Kyle Henning |
Customer experience
Chatometer
Colors Unlocked
In-app purchases
Chatometer
- Chatometer Plus$2.99
Colors Unlocked
No in-app purchases









