Reviews of Color Muse

By: Variable, Inc

List of user reviews and ratings for Color Muse

Total ratings

4.14 (Rating count: 458)

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Review summary

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.

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Recent rating average: 3.00

All time rating average: 4.14

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5% (6)

Date	Author	Comment
2025-01-07	A *****	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
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
2024-10-30	Jo*****	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.
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.