Color Hints vs TonePick
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.
TonePick
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TonePick is a personal color–based curation service that helps you complete your own style, from precise personal color analysis to tailored beauty product recommendations. ◆ Advanced Personal Color Analysis System - COCORY’s structured analysis process - A wide range of analysis methods, from self-analysis to device-based analysis - Highly reliable results verified with expert and real user data ◆ Tailored Product Recommendations - Expertly curated products based on your personal color type - Reliable recommendations categorized by beauty and color specialists - Makeup tips and fashion style guides for each type ◆ Beauty Community Connected by Personal Color - A space to share and discuss beauty concerns by personal color type - Exchange information with users of similar types - Community features centered on your analysis results
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: TonePick at Free against Color Hints's $1.99. TonePick also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months). Color Hints's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
TonePick 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 ships an update every 7 months, TonePick every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and May 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color Hints | TonePick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 119 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jim Calvin | COCORY COLOR Inc |
In-app purchases
Color Hints
No in-app purchases
TonePick
No in-app purchases
