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. Palx – Automatic UI Color Palette Generator launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Color Library▲116

   Automated color separation

   2016 · colorlibrary.ch · its alternatives →

2. 2CP
   Color Palette Generator▲8

   2024 · ozgrozer.github.io · its alternatives →

3. 3AA
   An Algorithm to Generate Beautiful Color Palettes▲8

   2018 · chris.de · its alternatives →

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   Palette For Mac▲205

   A menu bar based colour contrast analyser

   2016 · often.studio · its alternatives →

5. 5
   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 →

6. 6
   Adaptive Backgrounds▲231

   Extract dominant colours from images

   2014 · briangonzalez.github.io · its alternatives →

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   Color Palette Generator▲204

   Enter the URL of an image and find its color palette

   2015 · degraeve.com · its alternatives →

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   PALX▲4

   Automatic UI Color Palette Generator

   2018 · its alternatives →

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   Additional color palettes for the Mac OS X color picker▲5

   2014 · midwinter-dg.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    ColorFavs▲115

    Generate color palettes from images, urls or randomly

    2016 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    A tool for creating cohesive color palettes▲5

    Create more cohesive color palettes

    2015 · javierbyte.github.io · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Real-time Colors▲59

    Real-time UI Color Palette Tool

    2023 · realtimecolors.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Four Shadows▲64

    Time-aware algorithm driven shadows for icons

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    palettes & patterns▲81

    Color visualisation app

    2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Open color▲7

    A color scheme for UI design

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Color Tool▲87

    Create, Share & apply color palette to your UI

    2017 · m2.material.io · its alternatives →

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    Colrd▲4

    A color palette generator and discovery tool

    2016 · colrd.com · its alternatives →

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    Smooth UI System, a new way to style components▲6

    2019 · smooth-ui.smooth-code.com · its alternatives →

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    ColorAyz – a small webapp for grayscale images colorization▲9

    2014 · colorayz.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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    Sweep.js▲68

    A JavaScript library for smoother color transitions

    2014 · rileyjshaw.com · its alternatives →

21. 21RT
    Real time color previsualisation▲8

    2012 · blog.framebench.com · its alternatives →

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    AiColors.app▲43

    Generate complete UI color kits

    2024 · aicolors.app · its alternatives →

23. 23CA
    Colordrop – advanced color analysis app▲5

    2019 · getcolordrop.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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