Comparison

Coolors vs Pocket Palette

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

Head to head
About

Coolors

Generate and discover color schemes quickly. Organize them into projects, export them in various formats, or pick colors from your photos. Explore thousands of pre-made palettes for inspiration.

Highlights
  • Fast color scheme generator
  • Organize palettes in projects
  • Export as image or PDF
  • Pick colors from photos
  • Explore thousands of palettes
  • Create photo collages
Features
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Coolors is the most loved color palettes app and website that inspires 2M+ creatives every day! • Create your color schemes with the super-fast generator. • Organize them in handy projects and collections. • Export as image or PDF, or just copy and share the link • Pick colors from your best photos with ease • Choose by several layouts and create beautiful collages with photos and palettes • Explore thousands of ready-made palettes to inspire your work If you need support, please go to help.coolors.co If you'd like to send feedback, please write to info@coolors.co Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://coolors.co/privacy-policy Follow our Instagram page for your daily colors inspiration: @coolors.co From a creative to all the others. Made with love by Fabrizio Bianchi - fabrizio.io

About

Pocket Palette

Easily create and refine color schemes with this intuitive tool. Generate palettes from scratch or inspiration, adjust colors with various color spaces, and preview your designs. Capture colors from images using an eyedropper tool.

Highlights
  • Create palettes from scratch or samples
  • Add/remove colors for custom complexity
  • Organize palettes with collections
  • Adjust colors using Hex, RGB, HSB
  • Preview color schemes
  • Pick colors from photos with eyedropper
  • Copy Hex, RGB, HSB, CMYK values
Features
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The perfect blue is everywhere: in a sunset, a paint chip, a stranger's jacket. Pocket Palette lets you capture it in seconds and build it into something. It's a full-featured color studio that feels like a simple one. Every tool is one tap away, nothing is buried in menus, and there's no learning curve standing between you and your palette. Open the app, and you already know how to use it. From the world to your palette Point your camera at anything: tile, fabric, foliage, that mural you pass every day. Pull the exact color straight into your palette, or eyedrop from any photo in your library. If you can see it, you can keep it. Deep tools, zero clutter Under the simple surface is a precise color editor. Work in Hex, RGB, HSB, or spin the HSB color wheel for intuitive hue control. Every color is fully editable, and undo keeps experimenting risk-free. Not sure what comes next? Pocket Palette suggests coordinating colors to round out your scheme. Organized without effort Group palettes into Collections by project, client, or mood. iCloud sync keeps everything current across your iPhone and iPad automatically—no account, no setup, no thinking about it. Everywhere your work goes Copy Hex, RGB, HSB, or CMYK values with a tap, or share your palette as a clean image for Figma, Procreate, Canva, or wherever your work lives. Pocket Palette isn't where your project ends; it's where your colors begin. Honestly free No ads. No subscriptions. No data collected: your palettes are yours alone. The whole app is 6 MB, small enough to forget it's there, fast enough to be there the instant you need it. Made for designers, illustrators, decorators, crafters, and anyone who's ever stopped mid-walk because a color was too good to lose. Questions or ideas? patrick@penpyre.com. Real feedback shapes every update.

Screenshots

Coolors4 screens
Pocket Palette4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pocket Palette at none against Coolors's 2. Pocket Palette also leads on review sentiment (81% vs 65%). Coolors's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Coolors sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Pocket Palette asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Coolors holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Coolors has 11K ratings behind it against 181, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Coolors's written reviews are positive against 81% of Pocket Palette's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Coolors ships an update weekly, Pocket Palette every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Coolors versus Pocket Palette: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCoolorsPocket Palette
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (11K ratings) — better4.4 (181 ratings)
Positive reviews64.7% of reviews81.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11K — better181
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCoolors srlPenpyre, LLC

Customer experience

Coolors

All ratings10,490 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral2.0%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews580 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral9.5%
Negative25.9%

Pocket Palette

All ratings177 ratings
Positive84.2%
Neutral3.4%
Negative12.4%
Written reviews91 reviews
Positive81.3%
Neutral4.4%
Negative14.3%

User reviews

Coolors

From 11K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Excellent color palette generation
  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 💡 Helpful for artists and designers
  • 🎨 Useful for finding color combinations
  • 🎨 Versatile color tools and options

Room to improve

  • 💰 Paid features behind subscription paywall
  • 🔒 Requires account creation to use basic features
  • 🔒 Losing access to previously paid features
  • 🐛 Sign-in and account issues
  • 🔒 Limiting free version features

Pocket Palette

From 181 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface
  • 💰 Completely free with no ads or paywalls
  • 🎨 Multiple color input methods (HEX, RGB, HSB, CMYK)
  • 📸 Eyedropper tool for picking colors from photos
  • 💾 Easy palette creation and customization

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Data loss issues - palettes randomly disappearing
  • 🐛 App crashes and freezing
  • 🐛 Buttons not responding properly
  • ❌ Limited to 9 colors per palette
  • ❌ No landscape mode support

Bugs and requests

Coolors

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Photos and other tools not loading properly
  • Palette saving and access issues

Requested features

4 requests
  • Allow adjusting individual colors in a palette
  • Add color contrast ratio information
  • Provide more color standards and names
  • Improve palette organization and management

Pocket Palette

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Palettes disappearing after app updates or random restarts
  • App crashes on startup or during use
  • Buttons not responding to taps
  • Color picker returning incorrect/random colors
  • Create tab not functioning
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  • Palette changes not saving properly
  • Photo picker not displaying full image in selection window
  • Color picker malfunctioning on specific devices (iPhone 8)
  • Unauthorized camera access without proper permission handling
  • Palette reordering causing items to jump to top/bottom unexpectedly

Requested features

17 requests
  • Increase color limit beyond 9 colors (up to 64 suggested)
  • Nested folder organization for collections within projects
  • Landscape mode support
  • Export/save palettes to device gallery or external files
  • Delete palette functionality
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  • Color naming feature for individual colors
  • Color wheel interface for easier scheme selection
  • Complementary, triadic, and split-complementary color suggestions
  • Palette reordering and custom sorting options
  • LAB color space support
  • Ability to create folders while in color picking mode
  • Swatch comparison feature
  • Color width adjustment for better visualization
  • Palette submission forum for community sharing
  • Backup and cloud sync functionality
  • Ability to show hex/RGB codes without entering edit mode
  • CMYK color restriction option for print-safe palettes

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Coolors

Subscriptions2
  • Coolors Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Coolors Pro - Yearly$35.991 Year
None

Pocket Palette

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Coolors free?
Coolors is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pocket Palette free?
Pocket Palette is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Coolors or Pocket Palette?
Coolors is rated higher. Coolors averages 4.8 out of 5 from 11K ratings, while Pocket Palette averages 4.4 from 181 ratings.
Do Coolors or Pocket Palette have ads?
Neither Coolors nor Pocket Palette shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Coolors or Pocket Palette?
Coolors ships an update weekly, and Pocket Palette every 6 weeks. Most recently, Coolors was updated on November 4, 2026 and Pocket Palette on November 3, 2026.

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