Color Name Recognizer Camera2.2 - App Store

What is the name of this color?

Point your camera at an object and Color Name Recognizer Camera identifies the color in real time. Along with a human-readable name, the app shows RGB, hexadecimal, HSV, and CIE L*a*b values for the sampled color.

Choose a simple color-name table for familiar names or a larger table for more specific results. Free users can select tables containing up to 50 base color names. The 100-name table requires Premium. Premium users can use multilingual tables containing up to 1,500 names.

FEATURES

. Recognize color names in real time with the camera
. Inspect RGB, #RRGGBB hexadecimal, HSV, and CIE L*a*b values
. Adjust camera zoom and the sampling-region size
. Pause the camera to inspect a stable result
. See whether a live sample is steady or changing
. Magnify the sampling area
. View related and similar color names
. Generate complementary, analogous, monochromatic, triadic, split-complementary, and tetradic color palettes
. Hear the recognized color name spoken aloud
. Explore color contrast grids
. Check exact WCAG contrast ratios, AA/AAA results, and accessible alternatives
. Preview estimated protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia, and monochromacy appearances
. Enable optional stable spoken identification and haptic family-change alerts on the live camera
. Search by color name or HEX and compare the nearest named matches
. Pick a color from a photograph
. Extract a dominant color palette from an image
. Save colors to a local library
. Revisit automatically deduplicated Recently Identified colors
. Export saved colors and palettes with Premium access

COLOR-NAME LANGUAGES

Color-name tables are available in English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German. The app interface also supports additional localized languages.

FREE AND PREMIUM ACCESS

Free:
. 30- and 50-name base color tables
. Core camera recognition, color values, manual tools, image tools, and saved colors
. Color Harmony generation and HEX copying
. Searchable Palette Projects with ordered swatches, names, notes, tags, and duplication
. WCAG Contrast Checker with live previews and complete palette audits
. Color Vision Assistant with descriptions, profile simulations, confusion advisories, and optional camera feedback
. A limited number of similar-color results

Premium:
. Multilingual base color-name tables from 30 through 1,500 names
. More similar-color results
. Compare two live samples using a similarity score and ΔE
. Average nearby samples and lock camera lighting for steadier recognition
. Adjust flashlight intensity with a long press
. Save Color Harmony palettes to Palette Projects and Saved Colors
. Export palettes as CSS or JSON

COLOR VALUES

RGB components are shown from 0 to 255. Hexadecimal values use the #RRGGBB format. HSV shows hue, saturation, and value. CIE L*a*b uses the D65 reference white and provides a perceptual representation of color.

Recognition results can vary with lighting, reflections, camera exposure, and device characteristics. The app is an identification aid and is not a calibrated colorimeter.

Color Vision Assistant simulations and confusion advisories are estimates for accessibility and design review. They are not a medical test or diagnosis and do not represent every person's perception.

SUBSCRIPTIONS AND PURCHASES

Available products, prices, trial eligibility, and billing periods are displayed on the in-app purchase screen and confirmed by the App Store. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings. Restore Purchases is available for eligible purchases made with the same Apple Account.

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Version History • Improved live recognition with sample-quality guidance, optional name stabilization, and clearer Simple and Detailed results.
• Compare two live samples, average nearby samples, lock lighting, and adjust flashlight intensity with a long press.
• Improved navigation, menu clarity, color-table language labels, Help responsiveness, stability, and accessibility. 2.2 Sep 21 • Search by #RRGGBB or RRGGBB HEX values and compare several nearest named colors.
• Open a reverse-lookup match directly in Identify Color.
• Similar-color diagrams now show clearer similarity and ΔE information, with a menu setting for similarity, HEX, or names only.
• Added Recently Identified: a private, on-device list with automatic deduplication and expiry. Favorites remain until you remove them.
• Improved navigation, menu clarity, color-table language labels, Help responsiveness, stability, and accessibility. 2.1 Aug 26 • Added Color Harmony generation with six palette models.
• Edit the base color with RGB sliders or a HEX value, copy swatches, and save the complete palette with Premium.
• Added Palette Projects to search, duplicate, rename, tag, and reorder complete palettes.
• Added WCAG contrast ratios, AA/AAA results, accessible alternatives, previews, and Palette Project audits.
• Added Color Vision Assistant descriptions, profile simulations, two-color advisories, and optional live-camera speech/haptics.
• Added Premium Palette Project export for CSS and JSON workflows.
• Improved reliability, accessibility, and localization. 2.0 Aug 8 User interface supports multiple-lannguage. 1.9 10/09/2024 bug fix - fixed a bug that may cause app crash when system-preferred language is not in the 8 supported languages. 1.8 07/02/2024 - UI improments
- Multi-language support for base color names:
English, 中文, 日本語 , Español, Português, Français, Deutsch, العربية.
- minor bug fix 1.7 06/18/2024 New features added:
- Save/Export picked colors
- Search color by name
- More base color names (up to 1500 base color names)
- Pick color from image
- Extract color palette from image 1.6 05/15/2024 - Displaying Color Contrast Grids.
- Voicing recognized color name.
- Color name recognition algorithm improved.
- UI Improvements. 1.5 02/19/2024 - Magnifier
- Minor UI improvements 1.4 02/14/2024 - Showing names of similar colors as well
- More base color names added (up to 600 base colors)
- Color recognizer algorithms fine-tuned more fitting to average human perception. 1.2 12/09/2023 1.0 12/04/2023