Comparison

Harmony Palette vs PainterLab

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

Head to head
About

Harmony Palette

Features
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Harmony Palette is the professional color tool for designers, artists, and creators who demand precision, beauty, and powerful features. PROFESSIONAL COLOR HARMONIES - Interactive color wheel with RGB and traditional RYB (Itten) color models - 8 harmony types: Complementary, Analogous, Monochromatic, Triadic, Split-Complementary, Square, Rectangular, and Compound - Real-time harmony visualization as you explore colors - Precise color control with brightness and saturation sliders EXTRACT COLORS FROM PHOTOS - Capture palettes from any image using your camera or photo library - On-device analysis identifies dominant and accent colors - Completely on-device processing - your photos never leave your device - Perfect for matching brand colors, nature inspiration, or design research UNLIMITED PALETTE LIBRARY (PRO) - Save unlimited color palettes and organize them in folders - Tag and favorite your most-used combinations - Search your entire library instantly - Syncs across your devices through your private iCloud, and works offline either way PROFESSIONAL ACCESSIBILITY TOOLS (PRO) - WCAG contrast checker ensures your designs meet AA/AAA standards - Test your designs against protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia and achromatopsia - Ensure your work is inclusive and accessible to all users - Essential for professional designers and agencies POWERFUL EXPORT OPTIONS (PRO) - Export to PDF for client presentations - Generate SVG files for web and print - Copy code snippets for SwiftUI, UIKit, CSS, and Tailwind CSS - Share watermark-free images to Instagram, Pinterest, and more 150+ CURATED PALETTES (PRO) - Hand-selected professional palettes across categories - Classic art, nature, minimalism, vintage, and brand-inspired collections - Instant inspiration when you need it - Full search and filtering by mood, season, or style ELEVEN LANGUAGES - English, German, Spanish, Latin American Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, and Simplified Chinese - Every color name and curated palette is translated, not just the interface - Search finds a palette by its English name or its translated one DESIGNED FOR CREATORS - Beautiful neo-brutalist interface that celebrates color - Smooth animations and haptic feedback - Works completely offline - no internet required - Respects your privacy - no tracking, no ads, no data collection FLEXIBLE PRICING OPTIONS Choose how you pay: subscribe monthly or annually with a 7-day free trial, or make a one-time lifetime purchase to own it forever. - Pro Annual: $14.99/year (7-day free trial) - Pro Monthly: $2.99/month (7-day free trial) - Pro Lifetime: $29.99 one-time (all current and future features) FREE TIER INCLUDES: - Full interactive color wheel - 4 core harmony types - Save up to 15 palettes - Extract colors from photos - Share palettes with watermark - HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV color codes Perfect for: - Graphic designers creating brand identities - UI/UX designers building design systems - Artists exploring color relationships - Interior designers planning room palettes - Fashion designers coordinating collections - Students learning color theory - Anyone who loves beautiful colors Terms of Use: https://mergewiththemachine.com/harmony-terms Download Harmony Palette today and unlock your creative potential.

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PainterLab

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PainterLab turns any photo into a practical painting study you can observe, simplify, and mix from. It is not a coloring game, and it does not paint for you. PainterLab helps painters and art students understand color shapes, value structure, and temperature relationships, then translate selected screen colors into real-paint mixing ideas. SIMPLIFY COMPLEX SCENES Organize a busy photo into clear, paintable color shapes. Explore natural color blocks, limited palettes, and region-based forms, then adjust detail and smoothing for your study. SEE THE VALUE STRUCTURE Compress an image into 2–10 value levels to study large light-and-dark relationships, grayscale organization, and Notan. Use the adjustable histogram to control each value boundary. UNDERSTAND COLOR TEMPERATURE Compare cool, neutral, and warm relationships across the image. Adjust balance and smoothing to reveal the overall temperature structure more clearly. TURN SCREEN COLORS INTO REAL PAINT Select a color from the original photo or a simplified color shape. PainterLab uses your chosen paint palette to suggest practical paint combinations and mixing proportions. You can also photograph your mixed paint and compare it with the target color. BUILD YOUR OWN PAINT PALETTES Choose the physical paints you already own and organize them into custom palettes. Mixing recipes are calculated using the palette selected for each study. SAVE EVERY STUDY Your source photo, observation modes, adjustments, and sampled colors are saved in the Study Library, so you can return and continue practicing at any time. KEY FEATURES β€’ Photo-to-color-shape simplification β€’ Value studies and Notan analysis β€’ Warm and cool color-temperature analysis β€’ Color sampling and real-paint mixing recipes β€’ Custom physical-paint palettes β€’ Study Library with automatic saving β€’ On-device photo processing PainterLab includes free basic features. PainterLab Pro unlocks unlimited studies, additional simplification styles, fine detail controls, and other advanced features. Subscription options and local pricing are shown by the App Store before purchase and can be managed or canceled through your App Store account. Privacy Policy: https://wavecave-studio.uk/painterlab/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://wavecave-studio.uk/painterlab/terms-of-service

Screenshots

Harmony Palette4 screens
PainterLab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: PainterLab at 3 against Harmony Palette's 1. PainterLab also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.2). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Harmony Palette sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and PainterLab sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Harmony Palette versus PainterLab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHarmony PalettePainterLab
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsβ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS17.215.6 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size21 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLevi Fosterε»Ίζ³’ 胑

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Harmony Palette

Subscriptions2
  • Harmony Palette Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Harmony Palette Pro Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Harmony Palette Pro Lifetime$29.99
2 purchases

PainterLab

Subscriptions2
  • PainterLab Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • PainterLab Pro Annual3 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Harmony Palette free?
Harmony Palette is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PainterLab free?
PainterLab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Harmony Palette or PainterLab have ads?
Neither Harmony Palette nor PainterLab shows ads.

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