An iPhone app that lets you pick colors and identify PANTONE colors
Capture colors live from your camera or photos, organize them effortlessly into a library, and explore detailed insights, including matching Pantone shades
An iPhone app that lets you pick colors and identify PANTONE colors launched on April 27, 2020 with 112 votes, #394 of 5,003 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
In plain words
Cone is an iPhone app for identifying and selecting PANTONE colors. Users can pick colors from their photos or environment and match them to official PANTONE color standards. The app serves designers, artists, and anyone needing accurate color matching and reference. It provides a practical tool for capturing real-world colors and translating them into standardized color codes for professional use.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
Cone accurately identifies upto ten Pantone® colors closest to the captured colors, all offline (from the Coated and the Uncoated guides). Cone is an official Pantone® licensee and it keeps updated with the new colors as they are released. Commonly used for finding Pantone® colors for brands, identifying Pantone® colors of objects, etc. without buying expensive guides or spectrophotometers. Cone 2.0 introduces color buckets, which lets you organize all your capture colors. Create buckets based on scenes, locations, and whatever you can think of. Cone also lets you export buckets as beautiful shareable images. Cone also comes with a companion Apple Watch app which syncs all the buckets and…from cone.app
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