Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. An Algorithm to Generate Beautiful Color Palettes launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Color Palette Generator▲8

   2024 · ozgrozer.github.io · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Color Library▲116

   Automated color separation

   2016 · colorlibrary.ch · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Adaptive Backgrounds▲231

   Extract dominant colours from images

   2014 · briangonzalez.github.io · its alternatives →

4. 4
   I made a new AI colorizer▲472

   Hi HN, I’m Emil, the maker behind Palette. I’ve been tinkering with AI and colorization for about five years. This is my latest colorization model. It’s a text-based AI colorizer, so you can edit the colorizations with natural language. To make it easier to use, I also automatically create captions and generate filters. Let me know what you think. You can see some of my results on my reddit page: https://www.reddit.com/user/emilwallner/?sort=top

   2022 · palette.fm · its alternatives →

5. 5PA
   Palx – Automatic UI Color Palette Generator▲6

   2018 · palx.jxnblk.com · its alternatives →

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   A tool for creating cohesive color palettes▲5

   Create more cohesive color palettes

   2015 · javierbyte.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Huemint▲173

   AI color palette generator

   2021 · huemint.com · its alternatives →

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   Real time color previsualisation▲8

   2012 · blog.framebench.com · its alternatives →

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   ColorFavs▲115

   Generate color palettes from images, urls or randomly

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10CA
    ColorAyz – a small webapp for grayscale images colorization▲9

    2014 · colorayz.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Colrd▲4

    A color palette generator and discovery tool

    2016 · colrd.com · its alternatives →

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    A color scheme generator for uncommon colors▲5

    Poolors generates color palettes using the colors least-used by designers

    2020 · poolors.com · its alternatives →

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    Color▲80

    A color matching game

    2015 · color.method.ac · its alternatives →

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    Super Easy Color Palette Thing▲9

    Generate beautiful color palettes based on three colors

    2016 · ruthieswebsite.com · its alternatives →

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    A generative art algorithm – Treasure▲5

    2019 · anemy.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Four Shadows▲64

    Time-aware algorithm driven shadows for icons

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

17. 17LM
    Let Machine Learning Pick Colors for Your Designs▲7

    2019 · designwithai.com · its alternatives →

18. 18AC
    Additional color palettes for the Mac OS X color picker▲5

    2014 · midwinter-dg.com · its alternatives →

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    Color Brewer▲63

    Color Palettes for Cartography

    2015 · colorbrewer2.org · its alternatives →

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    Flat Color Generator▲5

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Colordrop – advanced color analysis app▲5

    2019 · getcolordrop.com · its alternatives →

22. 22KM
    k-means Image Color Quantization in JavaScript▲5

    2017 · dstein64.github.io · its alternatives →

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    AI Palette▲11

    Generate beautiful color palettes instantly with AI

    2025 · its alternatives →

24. 24AG
    Automatically Generating Algorithmic Art▲5

    2021 · grgv.xyz · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →