Color Palette Analysis is a color detection and palette generation tool for designers and artists on iOS.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Graphics & Design
Sentiment
4.5
12 reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The app removes the friction of manual color matching by identifying hues directly from the camera feed.
For Designers, artists, and creative professionals requiring mobile tools for color identification and palette development.
What does it look like?
Key features
Detects exact color names and codes from camera feeds.
Generates cohesive color palettes from images or individual colors.
Provides data on hue, saturation, contrast, and brightness relationships.
How much does it cost?
The app is currently offered as a free tool with no visible subscription or IAP gates, which limits its ability to fund ongoing maintenance.
Velocity
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Color Palette Analysis has been inactive for 249 days, placing it firmly in the zombie category. The single release within the analyzed window was limited to minor bug fixes, and there has been no development activity since late 2025. The lack of updates or feature expansion suggests the project is no longer being actively maintained.
Who built it?
Ertugrul Sari
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What do users think recently?
Recent user voice shows a frustrated sentiment. Users appreciate the core color palette functionality provides a positive experience for users who enjoy the basic utility.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- The core color palette functionality provides a positive experience for users who enjoy the basic utility
- The application quits unexpectedly when attempting to save custom color palettes, rendering the primary feature unusable
2 of 2 recent reviews analyzed · limited sample
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Competitive landscape for Color Palette Analysis
How's the Graphics & Design market?
Color Palette Analysis operates as a free, niche utility in the Graphics & Design category. The lack of a monetization model, combined with an 8-month update gap, leaves the app vulnerable to better-funded competitors.
The rivals identified
The Analyst's Read
Key takeaways for Color Palette Analysis
Where is it heading?
The Graphics & Design utility market is consolidating around tools that offer reliable project storage and active update cadences. Color Palette Analysis remains exposed: without a monetization model to fund maintenance, the app will continue to lose utility as the save-data crashes remain unaddressed.
- The 8-month development gap indicates the app is in maintenance mode, which prevents the resolution of critical save-data crashes.
- Persistent crashes during palette saving erode the daily active habit, which compounds the rating drag already visible in reviews.
The SWOT
- Real-time camera color identification provides immediate utility
- Automated palette generation maps colors to cohesive schemes
- Implementing a freemium model could fund critical bug fixes
Next best moves
Audit the save-data logic because crashes during palette saving are the top-reported complaint → stabilize the core utility
The counter-intuitive read
The lack of monetization is the app's primary weakness…
Read the full takeSince the last report: Development activity remains at a standstill, with no updates to features, pricing, or user sentiment since the previous reporting period. The app continues to suffer from a critical save-function crash that prevents professional use.
Bottom line
Color Palette Analysis provides a useful color-detection mechanism, but the persistent save-data crash prevents it from serving as a reliable design tool. Stabilizing the core save function is the only way to retain users.
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Access the full report for freeFAQ
Is Color Palette Analysis suitable for professional design work?
Does Color Palette Analysis charge a subscription fee?
Why does the app close when I try to save a palette?
Sources
- [1] App Store, source
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