Comparison

Color Wheel & Palettes vs Hex Code Tiles

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

Head to head
About

Color Wheel & Palettes

Explore color harmonies and create stunning gradients with an interactive color wheel. Features include a WCAG contrast checker for accessibility and a curated library of professional palettes. Export your creations in various formats for design projects.

Highlights
  • Interactive color wheel with HSB controls
  • 6 professional harmony types
  • Gradient generator with up to 6 color stops
  • WCAG contrast checker
  • Curated palette library with 10 categories
  • Export in HEX, RGB, ASE, CSS, SwiftUI, Tailwind, SCSS, PNG
Features
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Discover perfect color combinations instantly with our interactive color wheel, professional harmony tools, and creative gradient generator. Whether you're a designer, artist, or simply love beautiful colors, Color Wheel makes color theory accessible and fun. Our intuitive interface lets you explore complementary, triadic, analogous, and other professional color harmonies with just a tap. FREE TO DOWNLOAD You can try Color Wheel at no cost with a short free trial. After the trial, continued access to premium features requires a subscription. PREMIUM FEATURES: Color Wheel & Harmonies • Interactive color wheel with precise HSB controls • 6 professional harmony types for perfect combinations • Save unlimited palettes to your personal library Gradient Generator • Create stunning gradients with up to 6 color stops • Linear, radial, and angular gradient types • Export to CSS, SwiftUI, Tailwind, SCSS, or PNG • Live preview with adjustable angles and positions WCAG Contrast Checker • Test color accessibility against WCAG AA & AAA standards • Instant contrast ratio calculations • Smart improvement suggestions for failing combinations • Perfect for accessible web and app design Curated Palette Library • Browse 50+ professionally-designed palettes • 10 categories: Trending, Nature, Tech, Fashion, Seasonal, Mood & more • Search, favorite, and import palettes to your collection Export & Preview • Export in HEX, RGB, and ASE formats • Real-world preview contexts (UI design, posters, paintings, branding) • Dark mode support and iPad optimization PERFECT FOR: • Graphic designers creating brand palettes • Web developers ensuring accessible color contrast • Artists planning color schemes and gradients • Interior designers coordinating spaces • Students learning color theory • Anyone wanting to understand color relationships Transform your creative process with Color Wheel's professional-grade tools wrapped in an intuitive, beautiful interface. Download now, enjoy your free trial, and discover the science behind stunning color combinations. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Color Wheel & Palettes4 screens
Hex Code Tiles4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Color Wheel & Palettes at 18 against Hex Code Tiles's 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Color Wheel & Palettes sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Hex Code Tiles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Color Wheel & Palettes against 5.0 for Hex Code Tiles. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Wheel & Palettes has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Color Wheel & Palettes versus Hex Code Tiles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColor Wheel & PalettesHex Code Tiles
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (18 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings18 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMobile Card Games & Travel Apps LLCAlexander Knigge

Customer experience

Color Wheel & Palettes

All ratings18 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive16.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative50.0%

Hex Code Tiles

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Color Wheel & Palettes

Subscriptions3
  • Color Wheel Pro Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Secret Annual Subscription$14.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Color Wheel Pro Lifetime$9.99
  • Color Wheel Lifetime Pro$14.99
1 purchases

Hex Code Tiles

One-time1
  • Hex Code Tiles Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Color Wheel & Palettes free?
Color Wheel & Palettes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hex Code Tiles free?
Hex Code Tiles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Color Wheel & Palettes or Hex Code Tiles?
Color Wheel & Palettes and Hex Code Tiles are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 18 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Color Wheel & Palettes or Hex Code Tiles have ads?
Neither Color Wheel & Palettes nor Hex Code Tiles shows ads.

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