Paletto Camera

Five colors, straight from whatever you point at. Now with tap-to-focus, zoom and lens switching. Exact hex codes, kept on your device.

Point your camera at anything and watch its five most common colors appear as you move. Tap the shutter and the palette is saved.

HOW IT READS COLOR

Most color tools measure distance in RGB, where a saturated orange and a muddy brown sit close together and get merged into one swatch. Paletto clusters in CIELAB — the color space built to match human vision — and separates colors using CIEDE2000, the same difference measure the printing industry relies on. What comes back is what you actually saw.

Every palette is five perceptually distinct colors, ordered by how much of the image they cover, each with its exact hex code, a plain-English name, and its share of the frame.

AIM IT PROPERLY

Tap the preview to focus and re-expose on the thing you want the colors from. Pinch to zoom, or jump straight to a lens your phone has. Flip to the front camera when the colors are on your side of it.

FOR PEOPLE WHO WORK IN COLOR

• Tap any color to copy its hex code • Drag a swatch into another app and it arrives in whatever form that app wants — a real color, a hex string, or a swatch image • Drag whole palettes out the same way • Drop an image in from Photos, Files or Safari to pull the colors out of it • Reorder a palette by dragging its swatches • Export as .ase, the swatch format Illustrator, Sketch and Affinity import

KEEP EVERY PALETTE

Palettes are grouped by day alongside the photo they came from. Rename them, delete them, or share one as a palette card, a plain list of hex codes, or a swatch file.

PRIVATE BY DEFAULT

No account. No sign-in. No network requests at all. Nothing is collected and nothing leaves your device — every frame is analyzed on the phone in about two milliseconds.

BUILT TO BE USED

VoiceOver announces every color by name and reads its hex code digit by digit. Dynamic Type is supported throughout, and the interface adapts rather than shrinking when text gets larger.