Comparison

Color Trends vs Proref

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

Head to head
About

Color Trends

Features
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Color Trends is a modern color palette generator built for designers, creatives, and color enthusiasts. Explore curated 2025โ€“2026 trend palettes or generate your own using color theory โ€” then extract a palette from any photo. TREND PALETTES Browse handcrafted palettes inspired by the season's most influential design movements: โ€ข Photography โ€” Golden Hour, Film Noir, Coastal, Misty Morning โ€ข Architecture โ€” Concrete, Brutalist, Bauhaus, Glass & Steel โ€ข Interior Design โ€” Mocha Mousse, Japandi, Sage Living, Velvet Plum โ€ข Painting โ€” expressive, tonal, and painterly color combinations โ€ข Creative โ€” bold, playful, and unexpected palettes GENERATE Tap once to get a fresh palette built on color theory. Schemes include analogous, complementary, triadic, split-complementary, monochromatic, warm earthy, cool muted, pastel dream, and modern neutral โ€” all anchored to trending 2025โ€“2026 hues. PICK FROM A PHOTO Extract a palette from any image in your photo library or snap a new one with your camera. Turn real-world color inspiration into a usable palette instantly. SAVE & ORGANIZE Swipe a palette to save it to your library. Access all saved palettes in Your Color Trends whenever you need them. COPY COLOR CODES Tap any swatch to copy its HEX or RGB value to the clipboard. Switch between formats in Settings. CUSTOMIZE โ€ข 3โ€“7 colors per palette โ€ข HEX or RGB code display โ€ข Light, dark, or system theme โ€ข Toggle color code labels on or off No account. No ads. No tracking. Works fully offline.

About

Proref

Features
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Proref is where your references live while you draw โ€” and where the finished piece goes afterwards. GATHER YOUR REFERENCES Drop everything you're looking at onto one huge canvas and arrange it into a board. Import from Photos, your camera, Files, a web link, the share sheet, or by dragging straight in from Safari. Zoom from 2% to 25,600%, so the board grows with the project. WORK BESIDE THEM Proref is built for Split View: your references on one side, your drawing app on the other. Sketch and annotate over them with Apple Pencil, with pressure. Tune brightness, contrast and saturation, or crop non-destructively โ€” the original is always recoverable. A minimap shows where you are, and saved views jump you back to any spot in one tap. KEEP THE PIECE, AND THE LESSON When something's finished, keep it. Attach a piece to the board it came from, open it full screen, and see everything you've made on a dated timeline โ€” as a gallery to swipe or a list to scan. Note what worked and what didn't while it's fresh, star the things to carry forward, and those notes sit in a pane on the board while you draw the next one. If you'd rather Proref stayed purely a reference app, turn the art journey off in Settings and it does. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No accounts. No sign-in. No server. No tracking, no analytics, no ads. Your boards, your artworks and your critique notes stay on your device. FREE, WITH A ONE-TIME UNLOCK Proref is free to use with 2 boards, 10 images per board, 3 saved views, 5 finished artworks, and 3 focused critique notes per piece. Proref Pro removes those limits and unlocks every feature โ€” a single one-time purchase, not a subscription. Buy it once and restore it on your other devices.

Screenshots

Color Trends3 screens
Proref4 screens

Verdict

The call

Color Trends and Proref are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Color Trends sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Proref sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Color Trends versus Proref: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColor TrendsProref
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS16.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size20 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTOMASZ FILIP NOWAKJohn Oliver Atienza

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Color Trends

One-time3
  • Small Coffee$0.99
  • Medium Coffee$2.99
  • Large Coffee$4.99
1 purchases

Proref

One-time1
  • Proref Pro$7.99

Questions

Is Color Trends free?
Color Trends is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Proref free?
Proref is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Color Trends or Proref have ads?
Neither Color Trends nor Proref shows ads.

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