CLUSTER CAPTURES-COLOR-COLORS · 15 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-11-21
Screen color picker utilities
This cluster comprises color picker tools that capture on-screen colors, convert between formats like hex, RGB, HSV, and CMYK, and copy values to the clipboard, offered as web apps, desktop utilities, and terminal applications. The dated entry history stretches from June 2020 to July 2026, with a few more entries in 2025 and 2026, but the overall pattern is sparse. Traction leaders, Piccolo, Bella, and termpicker-bin, each show zero stars, indicating very early-stage projects.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 14 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 2 indie · 10 open source · 1 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 15 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01colorpikr-releases0★11 daysliveindieDesktop color picker app that samples any on-screen color, shows HEX/RGB/HSL/CMYK values, and saves palettes.
- 02ColorPicker1★15 days—hobbyScreen color picker utility for Windows that magnifies pixels and copies colors as HEX or RGB with a hotkey.
- 03Pipette0★24 days—indieFloating color picker for macOS that samples colors from anywhere on screen and shows HEX, RGB, CMYK, and HSB values, with direct transfer to Photoshop.
- 04color-picker0★17 dayslivehobbyDesktop color picker that samples any color on the screen and copies its HEX, RGB, or HSL values.
- 05Piccolo0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop utility that lets users pick colors from a wheel or sliders and copy them as hex codes or CSS color values.
- 06Bella0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop utility that picks a color from anywhere on screen, then lets users save and edit it in common color formats.
- 07Cherrypick0★1 moliveopen sourceDesktop color picker that captures on-screen colors, supports multiple output formats, keeps a history, and has a quick-pick keybind.
- 08termpicker-bin0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal application that lets users pick colors interactively and copies the selected color code to clipboard.
- 09cpick0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA terminal-based color picker that allows users to select and adjust colors.
- 10Pick0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceScreen color picker that zooms to pixel level, captures colors, and converts them for use in code or design.
- 11Cherrypick0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop color picker tool that captures on-screen colors in multiple formats, keeps a history, and supports quick keyboard-triggered copying.
- 12Eyedropper0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop utility that lets users pick on-screen colors and convert them between formats such as Hex, RGB, HSV, and CMYK.
- 13pico-color-picker0★10 mostaleliveopen sourceDesktop color picker that captures colors from the screen and copies them to the clipboard.
- 14Color Picker for COSMIC™0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceDesktop utility that lets users pick and copy color values from anywhere on their screen for design or development work.
- 15Pick0★unknownliveColour picker tool that captures screen colours, remembers them, shows context screenshots, and copies to clipboard.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.