AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to I made a new AI colorizer
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
Palette is an AI colorization tool that automatically adds color to black-and-white images. Users can refine results using natural language commands to adjust colors as needed. The tool also generates captions and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made a new AI colorizer launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Deblank Colors▲447Quick, customizable AI powered color palettes
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Palette Creator▲132Creates a color palette from any image.
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Palette Maker▲149Create and test drive color palettes on real design examples
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AI Color Wheel▲219Automatically colorize logos, illustrations and graphics
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Paletter▲129Create Professional Color Palettes from a Single Color
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Discover the perfect color palette for your project with AI
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In 2023, I tried building dynamic color theming by programmatically rotating HSL values. The results weren't good—garish combinations, inconsistent luminosity, completely unusable for UI work. That kicked off a two-year (sporadic) rabbit hole into color theory like Josef Albers' "Interaction of Color," perceptual color spaces (OKLCH vs sRGB), and effects like Bezold-Brücke. I learned that programmatic palette generation is genuinely hard. Nothing beats a trained eye. But I carried on anyway and made the Color Palette Pro. What it does: It generates 6 palette types (analogous, complementary,…
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Get your color analysis in less than 3 minutes
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