Color Hints vs Unotone
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.
Unotone
This app helps you discover makeup and analyze your skin tone using your device's camera. It offers personalized color palettes and product recommendations to reduce waste and enhance your beauty routine. Connect with a community for advice and support.
- Skin tone detection via camera
- Color palette analysis for undertones
- Personalized color palette creation
- Similar product recommendations
- Community chat for advice
- Makeup product waste reduction
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Unotone is your daily helper in the makeup and color analysis world. Use a camera to detect your skin tone and find matching products. Use color palettes to detect your undertone. Create your palettes to experiment with your colors. Find similar products to what you already used. Chat with the community, help others and seek help. Stop makeup product waste - choose better.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Unotone at 67% against Color Hints's 20%. Unotone also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.5 vs 3.0). Color Hints's advantage is iOS requirement (13 vs 15.5). On 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
Unotone is free to download; Color Hints costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Unotone holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Color Hints's written reviews are positive against 67% of Unotone's.
Color Hints ships an update every 7 months, Unotone every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color Hints | Unotone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 6 — better |
| 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 | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Jim Calvin | Igor Steblii |
Customer experience
Color Hints
Unotone
In-app purchases
Color Hints
No in-app purchases
Unotone
No in-app purchases
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