Comparison

Palet vs Strait

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

Head to head
About

Palet

Create custom color palettes with intuitive RGB sliders. Easily add, remove, and save colors, displaying both RGB and hexadecimal values. Quickly retrieve saved favorites with a simple tap.

Highlights
  • Intuitive RGB sliders
  • Add/remove colors
  • Display RGB and Hex values
  • Save favorite colors
  • Quick color retrieval
Features
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Intuitively customize your own palettes using standard rgb sliders. The palette editor supports the addition and removal of individual colors, and the display of rgb and hexadecimal color information in a streamlined fashion. In addition you can save your favorite colors in a queue, and quickly retrieve and load them by simply tapping them.

About

Strait

Inspect your browser tab's network path with this privacy-focused tool. It reveals exit IP details, iCloud Private Relay status, DNS comparisons, and WebRTC leak checks. Generate shareable reports for debugging and verification.

Highlights
  • Tab exit IP details (IPv4/IPv6, ASN, owner, location)
  • Native/system exit IP comparison
  • iCloud Private Relay status
  • VPN-like interface and system proxy state
  • TLS snapshot
  • DNS comparison (system vs. DoH)
  • WebRTC leak check
  • One-tap copyable report
Features
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Strait is a privacy-first network path inspector for your active browser tab. WHAT YOU SEE - Tab exit IP — IPv4 and IPv6, with ASN, owner, and coarse location - Native/system exit IP — for side-by-side comparison - iCloud Private Relay verdict — active, shadowed by VPN, or not observed, classified against Apple's published egress IP ranges - VPN-like interface and system proxy state — based on the default route, not just utun presence - TLS snapshot — version, ALPN, certificate leaf, issuer, and expiry from a native probe (clearly labeled as Strait's probe, not the browser's reused connection) - DNS comparison — system resolver vs. DNS-over-HTTPS - WebRTC leak check — surfaces public srflx candidates that bypass the tab's exit ONE-TAP COPYABLE REPORT Every check produces a clean text report you can paste into a bug ticket, a forum post, or a chat with your network admin. The copy report is the power-user source of truth. HONEST UNCERTAINTY Strait labels every value with its source and confidence. When timing data is hidden, when a probe is from the companion instead of the tab connection, or when a result is inferred — the UI says so. PRIVACY BY CONSTRUCTION - No analytics, no telemetry, no remote logging - No account, no sign-in - No browsing history or per-host log leaves the device - External calls are limited to documented probe endpoints and only run when you check a tab - Strait does not route your traffic — it is not a VPN WHO IT'S FOR - iCloud+ subscribers who want a readable answer to "is Private Relay doing anything here?" - Privacy-sensitive users who run VPNs and want to verify them - Web, SRE, and security debugging users who need a compact browser-side network report WHAT STRAIT IS NOT Not a VPN. Not a packet sniffer. Not a passive collector of browsing history. Not a replacement for Web Inspector. Strait is a focused, on-demand path inspector. TO ENABLE Strait ships as a Safari Web Extension. After installing, open Settings > Apps > Safari > Extensions and turn on Strait. Then tap the Strait icon in the browser toolbar on any page.

Screenshots

Palet4 screens
Strait3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Strait at every 2 days against Palet's every 5 months. Palet's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Palet against 5.0 for Strait. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Palet ships an update every 5 months, Strait every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Palet versus Strait: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaletStrait
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlex HarrisonJiawei Ye

Customer experience

Palet

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Strait

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Palet

No in-app purchases

None

Strait

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Palet free?
Palet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Strait free?
Strait is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Palet or Strait?
Palet and Strait are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Palet or Strait have ads?
Neither Palet nor Strait shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Palet or Strait?
Palet ships an update every 5 months, and Strait every 2 days. Most recently, Palet was updated on October 21, 2026 and Strait on October 24, 2026.

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