CLUSTER COLOR-DESKTOP-EXTRACTS · 5 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-08-12

Offline desktop color palette extractors

This cluster consists of desktop utilities that extract color palettes from user-supplied images entirely offline, with controls for palette size and quality. The dated history is too thin to read a shape from—only one dated entry exists before the index start, so the cluster predates the index or its members are undated. Among traction leaders, palette-from-image-ai leads with 303 stars, while the other two members have 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2025: 1AUG 2026: 2SEP 2026: 1OCT 2026: 1
AUG 2025OCT 2026

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 3 unlabelled

Operator · 3 hobby · 1 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 5 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01palette-from-image-ai303★7 dayslivehobbyWindows desktop app that extracts named color palettes from any image for designers and pixel artists, without uploading to the cloud.
  2. 02color-picker-desktop0★1 mo—hand-codedDesktop app for extracting pixel colors and generating color palettes automatically.
  3. 03Pigment0★6 mostalelivehand-codedopen sourceDesktop utility that extracts a color palette from an image offline, with adjustable color count and accuracy.
  4. 04colorgrab0★unknownlivehobbyDesktop tool that extracts colors from an image and exports them as GIMP or Photoshop color palette files.
  5. 05Pigment0★unknownlivehobbyDesktop app that extracts color palettes offline from user-supplied images, with adjustable palette size and quality.