# What a color?

> Ultimate on-the-go color tool

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1229503218](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1229503218)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1229503218`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Oleg Brailean
- **Category:** Utilities
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (95 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.09
- **Last updated:** 2020-10-10
- **First published:** 2017-05-03
- **Size:** 17 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/what-a-color/id1229503218)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://biomsoft.com](http://biomsoft.com/)

## Description

What a Color? is your portable color assistant. Grab a photo and touch any color to reveal its name, helping you choose paints, wallpaper, and decor on the go.

It supports RGB, CMYK, HEX, HSV, and LAB, includes a built-in Pantone helper, a vast color-name database, and features favorites, quick search, and fast access via Siri shortcuts and 3D Touch.

## Rankings

- #140,436 — Overall
- #17 — eyedropper
- #92 — color picker

## Review summary

What a color? is highly valued by colorblind users and praised for its ease of use and generally solid accuracy, offering more color information than many competitors. However, multiple reviews raise privacy/data-handling concerns and note occasional color mislabeling or inaccuracies. A few users also mention stability issues. Overall, it’s a useful tool for distinguishing colors and communicating color details, with transparency and reliability as the main caveats.

### Pros

- Excellent for colorblind users and repeatedly praised as among the best color-vision impairment apps.
- Generally accurate color detection with more hue information than many other color analyzers.
- Easy to use with a simple, intuitive interface.

### Cons

- Privacy and data-handling concerns; reviewers request disclosure of privacy practices and worry about data collection.
- Some reviewers report color mislabeling or inaccuracies in certain cases.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1229503218)