Clear Color vs Pochade

Clear Color helps you see, understand, and work with color — whether you’re capturing inspiration, making design decisions, or navigating the world with color vision differences. Go beyond picking a color. Clear Color lets you explore colors in depth, compare them meaningfully, and save the context behind each color so nothing gets lost. Capture colors with context • Pick colors live from the camera or from photos • Automatically extract palettes from any image • Save notes and source thumbnails with each color to remember where it came from Explore colors in depth • View rich color details including HEX, RGB, LAB, and more • Apply different color naming systems • Explore brightness, saturation, hue, temperature, and value • Use different color views and overlays to understand how colors behave Compare and evaluate • Compare colors side by side • See how colors relate on the color wheel • Check contrast and readability at a glance Designed for accessibility • Contrast checks with WCAG guidance • Color vision simulations • Color assistance tools to adapt colors to how you see Save and export •Organize colors into palettes •Export palettes in common formats • Keep your color library clear, meaningful, and reusable Some advanced features require a subscription, such as unlimited palettes and exports, advanced color comparison, pattern overlays, and saving notes and source thumbnails with colors. You can manage your subscription anytime in your App Store account. Clear Color is designed for designers, artists, students, and anyone who wants to better understand the colors around them — with clarity, context, and care. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

**Pochade is free to try with included sample images. Unlock importing your own photos with a single one-time purchase of $9.99. No subscription, no ads, yours forever.** Pochade is a focused reference prep app for painters. Import a photo, study its values, compose your framing, and plan your grid — all before brush hits canvas. No AI generation. No social features. No clutter. Just the reference tools painters actually need, designed for iPad. STUDY VALUES WITH CLARITY The hardest part of painting from a photo is seeing the value structure. Pochade simplifies your reference into 2–9 tonal steps so you can map out your lights and darks before you start mixing paint. A live luminance histogram shows your overall tonal distribution. Select any value bucket to isolate it with a mask overlay, making it easy to see exactly where each tone falls in your composition. COMPOSE YOUR FRAMING Crop non-destructively with preset aspect ratios (1:1, 3:2, 4:3, 5:4) or use the original framing. Your source image is never altered — adjust your composition as many times as you need. OVERLAY A PLANNING GRID Add a customizable grid overlay to plan your drawing transfer. Choose your row and column count (2–12 each), pick a color that reads well against your image, and adjust line thickness. The grid respects your crop, so what you see is what you'll paint. TOGGLE GRAYSCALE Switch to grayscale to strip away color and focus purely on value relationships — the foundation of every strong painting. BUILT FOR HOW PAINTERS WORK Your sessions save automatically as you adjust tools. Come back tomorrow or next week and pick up right where you left off. Undo and redo are built in, up to 50 steps deep. A session library keeps your references organized with thumbnail previews and tool state badges so you can see at a glance what you've done with each image. Zen mode hides all controls so you can evaluate your reference without distraction. Pan, zoom, and rotate to inspect details. BUILT NATIVELY FOR iPAD AND iPHONE Pochade is built natively for iPad and iPhone. Everything runs on-device. Your photos and sessions stay on your iPad, nothing is uploaded anywhere. Privacy Policy: [link] Terms of Use: [link]