# Palettes > Productivity Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id297157708](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id297157708) ## Overview - **ID:** `id297157708` - **Platform:** Apple - **Type:** Apple app - **Status:** Available - **Publisher:** Rick Maddy - **Category:** Productivity - **Rating:** 3.60 / 5 (23 ratings) - **Version:** 9.1 - **Last updated:** 2018-09-21 - **First published:** 2008-11-21 - **Size:** 18 MB - **Data as of:** 2026-09-19 - **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/palettes/id297157708) - **Website:** [http://www.maddysoft.com/iphone/palettes](http://www.maddysoft.com/iphone/palettes) ## Description Palettes is a powerful productivity tool for creating and maintaining color palettes. Great for creating color schemes. Now you can create a color palette anywhere at anytime. Grab colors from a photograph, a website, or add colors using any one of 5 color models. Quickly find matching colors with support for many different color schemes. You may create and store any number of palettes. This application runs at one of three levels: Free, Basic, and Pro. The initial free version runs at the Pro level for a limited time allowing you to fully test the application. It will then revert back to the Free level. Use the included in-application purchasing to upgrade to either the Basic or Pro level at any time. Key features include: • Single universal application works on all your iOS devices including iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. • Quickly create a color palette from a web site, image, camera, or color scheme. • Unlimited number of palettes (Free only supports 3). • 25 colors per palette (Free and Basic allows 5). • Undo/Redo support. • Import/Export palettes from/to Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks, GIMP, Paintshop Pro, Procreate, and OS X Color Chooser. (Pro) • Import/Export palettes via email. Team development made easy with one click import. (Pro) • Backup and restore your Palettes data directly to/from your own computer, iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, or FTP servers. (Basic, Pro) • Import and export palette files directly to/from your own computer, iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, FTP servers, or another app. (Pro) • Email color palettes to friends and co-workers. (Pro adds more options) • Pick colors from:   • RGB, HSV (HSB), HSL, CMYK, or Gray scale sliders   • Standard colors lists (SVG, Web Safe, HTML, Java, Apple) or other palettes.   • A website URL (webpage, image, CSS file, 3rd party palette file (Pro)).   • An image or camera.   • Any valid CSS3 color representation. • Create colors via:   • Color blending (Pro adds using 1 of 4 color models).   • Color schemes (monochromatic (Pro), analogous, triadic, complementary (Pro), split complementary (Pro)). • Review color information:   • Details (integer, hex, percent, decimal, CSS).   • As both a foreground and background color. • "Palette Flow" (not on iPad) • Display a color full screen to compare against a real world item (press and hold color briefly). • Palette preview screen. • Backup a palette as an image in your photo library for later restore. • Rename, reorder, or delete palettes. • Sort palette colors by RGB, HSV/B, HSL, CMYK, or Gray color model. • All work is saved as you go. • Always remembers where you left off last. • Built in context sensitive help system. • Preferences can be set from within the application. (Basic, Pro) • Excellent customer support. Palettes can be used to create color palettes for: • Web site design • Marketing campaigns • Home decorating • Wardrobe • Artists • Color coordinating • Anywhere colors are needed - just use your imagination Please visit http://www.maddysoft.com/iphone/palettes to see a more complete set of screen shots and additional information on the features of "Palettes". The website includes contact information for leaving feedback, asking questions, or reporting any issues. NOTE: Known limitation - this version is unable to import binary OS X palette files (.clr) from ~/Library/Colors. NOTE: Screenshots are after upgrading to the Pro level. ## Rankings - #259,942 — Overall ## Review summary Recap: Users laud Palettes for its Pro upgrade and strong color organization, especially its photo-based color codes and cross-tool sharing, along with responsive support. Recurrent drawbacks center on base-version limits, instability (crashes and bugs), insufficient onboarding, and color/preview accuracy problems. Overall, it's a powerful, versatile tool when it works, but reliability and guidance need improvement. ### Pros - Pro version provides powerful color organization and is widely considered invaluable for design work. - Strong palette management with easy storage, and cross-app sharing across tools/platforms. - Photo-based color extraction works well and provides RGB/HEX codes (CMYK in some cases). - Responsive developer support and quick fixes (e.g., IAP issues). - Versatile tool that designers and artists find useful and intuitive when functioning. ### Cons - Base version limits: only 3 palettes and 5 colors, encouraging upgrade. - Frequent bugs and crashes, especially during photo capture and color picking, reducing reliability. - Poor onboarding with little or no instructions, making the app hard to learn. - Color accuracy and preview issues (black background distorts colors; discrepancies in outputs). - Some UI/UX issues (dragging colors not working; suspicious startup password prompt). ## Similar extensions and apps - [Palettable - Palette Creator](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6503652310) - [Create Color Palettes](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6503656697) - [Colour Palette Generator](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6760036022) - [Color Palettes - Find & Create](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1593720095) — 4.50 / 5 - [Pastel Palette Lab](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6771744010) - [Palette Library](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6760600807) - [Paletti](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6447082774) - [Paletto](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6760658459) - [Paletton](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6763743118) - [Color Palettes for Procreate](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6741143347) — 4.00 / 5 - [Palette+](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1099709761) - [Palettes Lab: Color Picker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6739775678) — 5.00 / 5 --- Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id297157708)