# Color Wheel

> Palette Creator & Color Theory

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1449736609](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1449736609)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1449736609`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Roman Sevastyanov
- **Category:** Graphics & Design
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (1,042 ratings)
- **Version:** 12.3
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-17
- **First published:** 2019-05-07
- **Size:** 20 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/color-wheel/id1449736609)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://utopiacosmica.github.io/color-wheel-ios-privacy-policy/](https://utopiacosmica.github.io/color-wheel-ios-privacy-policy/)

## Description

**Color Wheel** is a complete palette creator and color theory toolkit for painters, illustrators, and graphic designers. Explore digital, classic, and abstract color wheels, build professional color combinations, and choose colors by season or mood with customizable swatches.

Use the camera or images to pick colors, check grayscale and value balance, preview lighting effects, and simplify references with Value Breaker. Additional tools include AR Stencil for marking proportions, Contrast Ratio for readability and accessibility, Color Group for building large palettes, and Tone for harmonizing colors with a unified visual feel.

## Rankings

- #53,308 — Overall
- #9 — Graphics & Design (Paid)
- #75 — color picker

## Review summary

Color Wheel is praised as a feature-rich, all-in-one tool that supports color theory and palette creation across art and design, with quick HEX/RGB outputs and camera-based sampling. Users cite speed and versatility, but note issues with a confusing UI, the lack of a way to start from a specific color, and poorly integrated workflows between the color picker and other tools.

### Pros

- All-in-one color toolkit with a broad set of tools for color theory, palettes, and mixing—no need for separate apps.
- Snappy, intuitive interface that makes color theory approachable for both beginners and professionals.
- Versatile across painting, design, websites, and fashion with many use cases.
- Flexible output formats and easy copying/sharing of colors (HEX/RGB) to clipboard, including camera-based color sampling for real-world colors.

### Cons

- UI is unintuitive and lacks clear instructions, making the learning curve steeper for some users.
- Cannot input or start from a specific color in the tools, making precise color exploration difficult for some workflows.
- Workflow between the color picker (camera) and other tools is not well integrated or documented, causing confusion about how to combine features.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1449736609)