# Pastel

> Beautiful color palettes

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id413897608](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id413897608)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id413897608`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Steven Troughton-Smith
- **Category:** Developer Tools
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (1,438 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.6.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-13
- **First published:** 2020-06-08
- **Size:** 11 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-23
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pastel/id413897608)
- **Website:** [http://www.highcaffeinecontent.com](http://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/privacy](https://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/privacy)

## Description

Pastel is a color-palette hub for designers and artists. It lets you build a library of color palettes, sync across devices with iCloud, and drag colors into Pages, Keynote, and other apps on iPad.

Key features include multiple color pickers, named colors you curate, and code exports in RGB, HEX, Swift, and SwiftUI. You can export pixel bitmaps for editors and wallpapers, and create beautiful wallpapers with pastel palettes. The free version supports up to 8 palettes, with an in-app upgrade for unlimited palettes.

## Rankings

- #46,713 — Overall

## Review summary

Pastel is praised for its clean UI and strong color organization, but reviews repeatedly flag reliability problems. Users report data loss where palettes vanish, unstable syncing and storage bugs, and image-based palette extraction failures with permission errors. Some note limited onboarding. Overall, the app excels at color management, but stability, data protection, and image-import reliability need improvement.

### Pros

- Intuitive, clean interface for viewing and organizing colors and palettes
- Strong organization features: create palettes, collections, and color systems
- Useful color picker with the ability to generate palettes from photos
- Cross-device syncing (iCloud) for access across devices
- Highly regarded by designers as a handy color-management tool

### Cons

- Palettes and palettes data frequently disappear or are deleted, causing data loss
- Image import and palette extraction often fails, with permission errors or poor UX finding the source image
- App stability issues: freezing, crashes, and buggy storage that can erase progress

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