Color Muse

Name: Color Muse
Rating: 4.16 (457 reviews)
Author: Variable, Inc

By: Variable, Inc

Scan Colors. Match Paint. Compare Products. Works with Color Muse Devices.

Features & Capabilities

Color Muse is a color-scanning and paint-matching companion app. It pairs wirelessly with Color Muse devices to identify colors from over 100,000 options across leading brands and help professionals and DIYers skip fan decks and swatches by scanning surfaces and surfacing accurate matches and coordinating palettes for interiors and exteriors.

With Plus Subscription, you can create custom paint formulations from scanned colors and redeem them at Sherwin-Williams stores in the US and Canada (Color Muse 3 required). Free features include color search across 100k+ shades, sheen measurement on Color Muse 2 and 3, saving and organizing colors, cross-material scanning, sharing, and project notes. Pantone and RAL in-app purchases unlock additional color libraries.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Design Data

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Downloads:

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Version:

14.7.3.28 Last updated: 2026-05-18

Version code:

1407030214

Creation date:

2015-04-06

Publisher country:

Permissions:

android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION Very high risk
android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION Very high risk
android.permission.CAMERA Very high risk
android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE High risk
android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE High risk
android.permission.BLUETOOTH_CONNECT Moderate risk
android.permission.BLUETOOTH_SCAN Moderate risk
android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE Low risk
android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE Low risk
android.permission.INTERNET Low risk

Size:

103.17MB

Email:

su*****@variableinc.com

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Google Play Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-04

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 232,483 ▼ 1,222

Other rankings

#58 in House and home (Gross) ▲ 8

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Developed by:

Variable, Inc

Google Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.variable.inspire

Email:

su*****@variableinc.com

Website:

http://www.variableinc.com

User Reviews

Color Muse app offers reasonably accurate paint color matching, praised by professional painters and homeowners alike, especially when paired with the required external scanning device. However, its major drawbacks include poor user interface design, difficult scan and palette management, unclear disclosure about needing additional hardware, connection issues, and lack of brand filtering options. Users often find the app cumbersome due to these usability challenges despite its core functionality being valued.

Pros

Accurate color matching especially when scanning professionally prepared paint samples or known paint cans.
Helps users find near-perfect or close color matches for walls and painted surfaces.
Useful for painters and professionals to verify paint shades.
Ability to filter matching colors by paint manufacturer improves accuracy.
Enables users to scan stained surfaces for color matching, which is not possible at some paint stores.

Cons

Requires additional external hardware device for color scanning, which is not clearly stated in the app.
User interface and user experience are clunky, non-intuitive, and need major improvements.
Scan management is difficult: users cannot batch move, rename, or delete scans, causing frustration.
App connectivity issues especially after updates, with device connections failing and poor customer support.
Excessive number of color matches returned with no easy way to filter by brands or narrow search results.
Requires creating an account and logging in before use, which some users find annoying or unnecessary.

Recent reviews

They sell as and even have in the manual that you can get RGB, HEX, CIE etc values...and you could...until they updated the app and removed it. It's beyond planned obsolescence, it's called Bait and Switch. Congrats Variableinc, you are now criminals. Oh, and they removed the ability to export to Adobe... Get yourself a SparkFun Thing Plus - ESP32-S3 $19.95, STEMMA QT AS7341 COLOR SENSOR from Adafruit, and a lipo with jst connector (couple bucks), Zio Qwiic OLED Display and do it better 4 less

A *****, 2025-01-07

Excellent device it has helped me tremendously identifying all the colors in a house I just purchased. I highly recommend this device to anyone that's looking to get a perfect or nearly perfect match to their colors.