Hex vs Trichromacy Color Tool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Trichromacy Color Tool
Create and explore color palettes using various harmony rules and extract colors from images. Visualize color in 3D using perceptually uniform systems, and export palettes in multiple formats for professional design workflows.
- Generate palettes from seed color
- Extract colors from photos
- Visualize color in 3D
- Perceptually uniform color systems
- Export palettes in multiple formats
- Calm, professional interface
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Trichromacy is a color tool for people who actually work with color — designers, illustrators, painters, and anyone who builds with palettes for a living. Build palettes from any seed color. Pick a color, choose a harmony rule (complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, tetradic, square), and generate balanced palettes ready to export. Extract colors from your photos. Pull a palette of dominant colors from any image, or posterize a photo into tonal values to study light and shadow the way a painter does. Explore color in three dimensions. Most apps work in sRGB, which is mathematically convenient but doesn't match how humans see color. Trichromacy lets you work in perceptually-uniform color systems — Munsell, OKLCH, LCH, and HSLuv — and visualize them as 3D solids you can rotate, slice, and study. Export everywhere. Save palettes as JPEG, PDF, ASE (Adobe), CSS, or hex lists. Use them in Photoshop, Figma, your design system, or your sketchbook. Built for working professionals, not flashy demos. Trichromacy keeps the interface calm so the color stays loud.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Trichromacy Color Tool at 3 against Hex's 1. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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 Hex against 5.0 for Trichromacy Color Tool. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Hex ships an update every 2 days, Trichromacy Color Tool daily. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Hex | Trichromacy Color Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Haverford Township School District | Matthew Dublin |
In-app purchases
Hex
No in-app purchases
Trichromacy Color Tool
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Hex free?
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