Color Identifier App Reviews

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.

I am currently helping plan my own wedding so picking out colors is a huge part. Ive been using this app to nail down exactly what colors we are using and to get hex codes for use in our invitations.

What can I say? Great!

Im red/green colorblind and am very excited to have a new tool for situations when I need the color of something, but cant ask! I have purchased the app, and would request a more limited color setting to force it into maybe 30-40 colors with more common names. Hex codes are awesome too--Id love to have a switch though. Thank you!!

i like this app, but sometimes i want it to just grab the color, not speak it back to me. it would be nice if the app could be updated to respect the position of the iPhone mute switch and offer a mute setting (both are needed). add this and i give it another star!

It seems to work great for what its advertised as. But Im colorblind and was hoping for an app that would simply tell me things like whether the shirt Im about to buy is blue or purple, red or pink ( to avoid common embarrassments for a somewhat modestly dressed guy). Instead I get a ton of names that dont mean anything to me as Im not a graphic designer. Im sure theyre legitimate, but they dont help me. I know its an odd request to ask for an app to be less detailed and thats why Im giving this a high rating. It would be great if I could click somewhere to find where the color is on the color wheel. That little addition would make this app exactly what Ive wanted for 23 years now.

You are on the right path here. This app could benefit millions of us who are color blind. But what we need is to have all the fancy-labeled reds called red, all the clever-sounding greens called green and so on. I have wanted this my whole life but never imagined technology would one day offer it. It is almost here. Now its only a software enhancement you need to make. Interested? Ill be your beta tester as I suspect other reviewers will.

I thought this app would be great for colorblind people like myself, but what the heck are "Aztec," "Shark," "Zeus" and others? I just want to know if this shirt Im planning to buy is yellow or light green. If you added a "simple color" option this could be a hugely helpful app for millions of people.

Im sure this app is probably amazing for people who want to spend hours learning the multiple names for blue. But I bought this for my dad who is blind and he tells me its useless. He just wants to know if his shirt is blue. Instead he gets about 10 other names until he finally gets something that says blue. I know this isnt what the app is made for and Im making a suggestion rather than a complaint. Hope you can help!! The exposure from the blog is probably causing you great sales and a bunch of new whiners...sorry to add to the list of whiners. Hope you can help with an update!!

This app is great, I am blind and I have not been able to see colors around me all my life. I love the way this app describes me what colors are around me and you need and fun ways. It really helps out when I cannot see you because my eyes do not work.

Nice idea but needs an update pronto. I scanned the same color but simple by tilting the phone I got two different color readings. Also I should be able to have the app tell me basic colors.

As a colorblind individual I have been looking for an app like this my entire life. I thought I had found "it", but the overly complicated color names make it difficult to determine if something is "blue" or "purple". Im not sure the developers even realize what a killer app they *almost* developed. Im leaving a 5-star review anyhow in the hopes they come back. :)

Just like a lot of other reviewers, Im colorblind and just want to know basic colors. But this app is seriously awesome, Ive been wishing for something like this my whole life.

This app works just as it is described, but there needs to be a setting where you can choose between simple or complex color names. I am colorblind, and all I want to know is whether my jacket is blue or purple, green or yellow, brown or red, etc. Instead, this app identifies the colors as "Hati", "Boulder" or other Non-traditional colors.

Needs two things: simple colors to be spoken. Like red, green, blue etc. Also needs open to turn led light on on the iPhone 4 as a torch so it works better in low light.

I love it but how do I turn off the instructions on the screen?