Color Identifier app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: GreenGar Studios
First release : 23 Mar 2010
App size: 21.19 Mb
Color Identifier uses the camera on your iPhone or iPod touch to speak the names of colors in real-time.
Its a new Augmented Reality app for discovering the names of the colors around you!
The color names are fun and specific: Paris Daisy, Lavender Rose, Moon Mist, and many more.
It can be a useful app for the blind and visually impaired, but I think its fun for everyone.
It will also tell you the hex value of the color, so you can identify exactly what color the camera sees.
Its fast, easy, and fun! Try it today.
Color Identifier will appear as "Color ID" on your home screen.
Color names are from Chirag Mehta, who used Wikipedia, Crayola, and Color-Name Dictionaries like Resene.
The next update will include simple color names to make the results easier to understand :)
Latest reviews of Color Identifier app for iPhone and iPad
very nice and useful app!
Alright, so this is an app that is supposed to identify colours around you by their "official names". Might be useful for a typical male, as we tend to call 10,000 various shades of colours as "blue" or "green" etc. lol. The app is very touchy in its colour identification. Aiming at the same thing something in two different spots will, in most cases, give you two different colour readings. Useful for entertainment if nothing else anyway. However I imagine this app would work best in bright outdoor natural light, so that it cant confuse black with "Green Waterloo". It may be my energy saving lightbulbs messing with that too, so I will make that allowance and not totally blame the app. Besides that, it uses hex values from #000000 to #FFFFFF, which is 16.7 million colours, roughly. So its totally understandable, when you think about it. I imagine its greatest usefulness would be for if you are mixing paint, as you can get the name and the hex value of the colour you want and then go to any paint mixing shop, and they should be able to do it up easy for you. So it isnt totally useless. I have spent more money on worse apps, lets put it like that. And hey, women seem to be able to discern many more colour palettes than men. Thats not sexism, just a fact of life. This app might help us men in that department. Who knows, she might be impressed with your knowledge, as long as you mute the sound and pretend youre not using it. ;) Overall, well, its only a buck. If youre not a teenager who has to ask mom and dad to use their credit card to buy apps, you might as well go for it. Theres definitely worse out there. As such, the app is average, nothing special or overly useless, and gets a three from me.
This is a good concept and with a few very minor tweaks would be a great app. Lower resolution cameras do better. Would like to see a mode in which an area could be averaged. Also if a picture could be analysed that would be great.
I became blind at birth. Now I can stand in my kitchen and absorb the color names. Thank you. Note that if youve turned on the screen curtain, turrn it off first.
A must have tool for the graphic designers arsenal. The hexidecimal coding is an amazing feature within itself. The live update can help you easily narrow out exactly which color youre trying to identify as it refreshes almost instantaneously. So far no bugs or glitches. Color coding has been accurate thus far.