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24 alternatives to I'm releasing a series of OS iOS/Mac apps to show how they're built
I'm a iOS and Mac developer and the thing that mostly bothered me when I first started learning Cocoa programming was the lack of full featured sample code. Now things have changed and more projects have been released, but I still want to do my part. I've already released Color Picker Pro for Mac: https://raw.github.com/oscardelben/Color-Picker-Pro This time I built a copy of the iPhone Calculator which (I hope) will be simple to follow for beginners: https://github.com/oscardelben/iPhoneCalculator I hope this will be useful to people who are learning Cocoa. Feedbacks are very appreciated.
A series of open-source iOS and Mac applications designed to teach Cocoa programming through practical examples. The project includes Color Picker Pro for Mac and an iPhone Calculator clone, built to be… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I'm releasing a series of OS iOS/Mac apps to show how they're built launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2017 · coneapp.io · its alternatives →
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Color Detection Tool for Designers and Developers. Contribute to oscardelben/Color-Picker-Pro development by creating an account on GitHub.
2011 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The macOS color picker supercharged
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Pika▲291A free, open-source colour picker app for macOS
2021 · superhighfives.com · its alternatives →
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Search nearly a million icons. Now in color!
2017 · thenounproject.com · its alternatives →
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Paste 4.0▲650The most convenient way to copy and paste on iPhone and iPad
2023 · pasteapp.io · its alternatives →
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Color picker & color schemes generator for macOS
2018 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Building a visual language of icons anyone can understand
2015 · thenounproject.com · its alternatives →
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Kelir▲120Color picker, color pallete and color gradient for your Mac
2016 · scrapdenton.org · its alternatives →
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Palette For Mac▲205A menu bar based colour contrast analyser
2016 · often.studio · its alternatives →
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Litur for macOS▲150A better way to find, collect & organize your colors
2020 · litur.app · its alternatives →
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Around 3 weeks ago, I came across a reddit post from someone who was looking to see if anyone was interested in taking over a 12-14 year old objective c app which hadn't been on the app store for many years. I responded and decided to do it. The app is called Painteresque. It lets you turn photos to charcoal drawings, paintings etc while doing all the processing locally on device: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/painteresque-photo-to-sketch/i... The app is entirely free to use, has no ads, third party analytics, trackers, subscriptions or other junk. It does offer…
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · colorsforcoders.com · its alternatives →
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Sketch Palettes▲183Sketch plugin to save and load colors into the color picker
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PANTONE Studio▲152An elegant iOS app for discovering color palettes
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Adobe Color CC▲117Generate color palettes from photos on your iPhone.
2014 · adobe.com · its alternatives →
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