Color Hints vs ARKAN Color
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color Hints
This app assists users in visualizing and cataloging color relationships. It offers various methods for finding coordinating, matching, or related colors, benefiting designers, artists, and anyone seeking color harmony.
- Visualize color relationships
- Catalog color schemes
- Find coordinating colors
- Match colors effectively
- Color discovery methods
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Color Hints helps you to visualize and catalog color relationships. It provides many methods of helping you to find colors that coordinate, match, or otherwise relate. Useful for designers, painters, quilters, students, and anybody else struggling to figure out which color of throw pillows belong on their couch.
ARKAN Color
This device helps determine and compare colors from objects, supporting various color spaces like RGB and CMYK. It's useful for professionals and individuals looking to match or select colors for projects, design, or personal use.
- Color definition in RGB, CMYK, LAB, LCH, XYZ, xyY
- Single and color comparison measurement modes
- Nearest color determination from HTML, RAL, NCS bases
- History of color scans and 'My colors' base
- Long battery life with up to 10,000 measurements
- Bluetooth 4.0+ connectivity
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Appointment The device is intended for determining and selecting the color of an object, comparing colors with a standard. The device facilitates the process and reduces the time for selecting colors; it will be useful both for professional designers, artists, car enthusiasts, and those who want to bring colors to their lives. Areas of use • Paintwork • Control and quality control of coloring • Helping people with poor color perception • Selection of wardrobe and interior • Color selection of paint for the interior Features • Definition of color in spaces: RGB, CMYK, LAB, LCH, XYZ, xyY. • Two measurement modes: single mode and color comparison mode • Determination of the nearest color from the bases: Basic (basic color names), HTML, RAL, NCS. • History of color scanning, the base "My colors". • Up to 10,000 measurements per battery charge • Easy connection via Bluetooth 4.0 and higher
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ARKAN Color at Free against Color Hints's $1.99. ARKAN Color also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months). Color Hints's advantage is rating (3.0 vs 1.0) and iOS requirement (13 vs 15.4). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
ARKAN Color is free to download; Color Hints costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Color Hints holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Color Hints ships an update every 7 months, ARKAN Color every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color Hints | ARKAN Color |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 15.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jim Calvin | Anton Kulikovskii |
Customer experience
Color Hints
ARKAN Color
In-app purchases
Color Hints
No in-app purchases
ARKAN Color
No in-app purchases
