NCS+
Explore a world of colours
Free
Find the right colour for your next project. NCS+ helps you to succeed in any colour design.
With NCS - Natural Colour System®©, developed by world-renowned colour experts, it has never been easier to find the right colour for your project.
EXPLORE COLOUR THEMES
In NCS+, you have access to all of the standardized NCS colours, and can explore all of the NCS Colour products, including Trend collections, the NCS Index, NCS Exterior and NCS Inspire.
FIND YOUR COLOUR
Search for colours in the new and innovative search panel, either through an NCS Notation (or parts of it) or filter for colours based on their hue and/or nuance.
MATCH A SURFACE
Using the built-in support for the Colourpin II / SE / PRO colour readers, you can easily scan any surface and find the closest matching NCS colour with the click of a button. You can also see how much the scanned surface differs from the closest matching colours with the built-in rating function and its corresponding delta E 2000 value.
NAVIGATE THE NCS COLOUR SPACE
The new and improved NCS Navigator brings unparallelled ease of navigating in the NCS System, through the NCS Circle selecting the prefered hue, and the NCS Triangle to select the correct nuance. The innovative beehive allows you to fine-tune your selection by modifying the selected colour in either chromaticness, blackness or whiteness, giving you exactly the colour you want.
COMBINE COLOURS
Through the smartness of the NCS System, you can combine colours of your choice based on colour similarities such as nuance-, hue-, blackness-, chromaticness-, whiteness and NCS lightness similarity. Basing your combination colours on these properties are one of the most certain ways of creating colour combinations that harmonize.
COLOUR SAMPLE REFERENCES
With unprecedented on-screen colour accuracy, you can now bring up any standard NCS colour on your mobile device. On each colour, you can also find out in which collections they are available, buy a physical sample in different sizes from the NCS Colour web shop or any NCS reseller as well as find translation values into other systems such as RGB, HEX, CMYK and Lab values.
SAVE, SHARE AND INSPIRE
Save your favourite colours into mood boards, upload images or take photos of your project to provide addional context to the board. You can then share the boards with friends or colleagues to inspire and collaborate.
more Hello NCS team! Adding to Board Still not fixed ! I can't add colors to board the app shuts down.
Developer Response Hi Catarina!Sorry for the late feedback on this, have you tried uninstalling the app and installing the latest version (1.1.5) to see if that helped? In that release, we fixed an issue with adding colours to boards not working properly.
Hello NCS team! Adding to Board Still not fixed ! I can't add colors to board the app shuts down.
Hi Catarina!Sorry for the late feedback on this, have you tried uninstalling the app and installing the latest version (1.1.5) to see if that helped? In that release, we fixed an issue with adding colours to boards not working properly.
Projects
Introducing Projects – a new way to organize your boards. Create projects, move existing boards into them, and invite team members to collaborate.
Colourpin improvements
• Fixed duplicate device listings
• Resolved calibration issues with Colourpin Pr
Boards & Collaboration
• New board sorting options
• Improved sharing and permission settings
• Notification when a board is moved to a project
UI & Design
• Better image loading with skeleton animations
• Improved spacing and layout across screens
• Various modal and button refinements
2.9.12 Mar 15
• New board collaboration features: invite others to work with you and manage sharing more easily
• New search and filter tools to quickly find the right board
• Improved stability for scanning and Colourpin usage
• Fixes for issues with Image Extract
• Better overall performance with fewer crashes
• General visual and usability improvements across the app
2.8.33 11/25/2025
Improved stability for Colourpin-related features.
2.7.10 08/29/2025
Experience a smoother and faster NCS+ with major performance upgrades.
The NCS Navigator is now even more intuitive – enjoy haptic feedback for easier colour exploration.
Your language settings are now synced across devices.
Plus, we’ve squashed some bugs and made under-the-hood improvements to boost overall performance.
2.7.9 08/21/2025
Improved link sharing for products and moodboards.
Smoother search field experience and better board timestamp display.
App language is now saved to your profile and stays consistent across devices.
Bug fixes for colour and product deep links, login flow, and filters.
2.6.30 06/25/2025
We fixed a bug which caused certain modals to not show when they were supposed to show, making it impossible to for example save results from Image Extract to moodboards, and to save images to moodboards.
2.6.19 06/17/2025
Big updates to Colour and Product Details with new combinations, related info, and full-screen views.
Improved navigation and image performance.
You can now find the closest RAL match for over 1,000 NCS colours.
Bug fixes and a smoother experience throughout.
2.6.14 05/29/2025
We've made several bug fixes and performance improvements.
2.5.7 05/14/2025
We've improved the loading of products and imagery, making the experience faster, as well as amended a few other bugs and performance improvements.
2.5.4 04/29/2025
Now you can tap on any colour that you've scanned with your Colourpin to find out more information about it, such as its sRGB, HEX and L, a, b values.
We fixed a bug which caused product information to not render correctly
Full screen product previews now renders better
Performance improvements and general bug fixes
2.5.3 04/07/2025
Introducing Product Variants!
You can now easily switch between different colour variants of the same product — perfect for comparing materials like flooring, paint, fabric, or wallpaper in all their available shades.
We’re gradually migrating products to this new format, so keep checking back to discover more colour-rich product experiences!
This update also includes minor improvements and bug fixes to keep your experience smooth and reliable.
2.4.3 04/03/2025
We addressed a bug which caused the last colour extracted from images not to be saved correctly to moodboards.
2.3.12 03/27/2025
We’re excited to introduce Image Extract on mobile! Identify the closest NCS 2050 colour(s) from any image - just snap a photo with your camera or pick one from your library.
You can then easily save your extracted colours to a moodboard or share them instantly with clients, partners, or friends as an image. You can access Image Extract via Search by tapping the Camera icon next to the search field.
Lighting- and material conditions do affect the results, so make sure to verify your results against physical references or use a Colourpin for more precise results. Happy extracting!
2.3.11 03/21/2025
A cleaner Explore page which allows you to interact more easily with colours & materials
Links now open inside the app instead of an external browser.
A brand new Settings page with better control and clearer structure.
Now you can filter by both categories and subcategories
Saving colour & product combos works as expected, and rearranging boards is now snappier.
Clearer permission prompts, better handling of search responses, and bug fixes.
2.2.14 02/20/2025
Fixed a bug which degraded the matching accuracy for Colourpin Pro users when scanning.
2.1.2 01/18/2025
Our biggest update in a while!
Identify not only the closest matching NCS colour for your scans but also the approximate NCS code of the surface.
Add the scanned surface to your moodboards to use as inspiration.
Understand the difference between the surface you've scanned and the match suggestions with NCS differences as well as Lab differences.
Share content more seamlessly with others, including colours, products and collections.
General performance improvements and bug fixes.
2.1.0 01/13/2025
We have cleaned up the Match and Compare screens for Colourpin users, streamlining their visuals to more clearly show the colour difference, moving away from the star rating system in favour of showing the dE00.
2.0.80 10/28/2024
Improved the Match Results screen which now allows you to quickly swipe between the closest matching colours, as well as easily adding any match to a moodboard of your choice.
2.0.74 10/07/2024
We've updated the design of the compare mode for Colourpin users and addressed a bug that caused the compare mode to crash in some cases.
Search and filtering improvements.
General performance improvements and bug fixes.
2.0.67 09/09/2024
Filter & explore content based on product categories.
Improvements to the Search panel.
General performance improvements & bug fixes.
2.0.66 08/27/2024
We have made significant updates to enhance your experience:
• Implemented Deep Linking: We’ve added support for deep linking ensuring a seamless and consistent navigation experience within our app.
• Fixed Share Menu Issue on iOS: We have resolved an issue where the share menu was not functioning correctly on iOS devices, improving the overall usability.
Thank you for using our app!
2.0.61 08/02/2024
Refined app menu for tablets and improved Bluetooth connectivity. Several other improvements and bug fixes.
2.0.59 07/23/2024
New and improved main menu with clearer visuals for active menu item. Improvements to the Colourpin connection stability. Products in mood boards now display their full details. You can now easily clear the free text search field. Several other improvements and bug fixes.
2.0.53 06/20/2024
Fixed a few bugs related to Colourpin connections.
2.0.45 05/24/2024
App performance, UI improvements and general bug fixes.
2.0.40 05/23/2024
Projects
Introducing Projects – a new way to organize your boards. Create projects, move existing boards into them, and invite team members to collaborate.
Colourpin improvements
• Fixed duplicate device listings
• Resolved calibration issues with Colourpin Pr
Boards & Collaboration
• New board sorting options
• Improved sharing and permission settings
• Notification when a board is moved to a project
UI & Design
• Better image loading with skeleton animations
• Improved spacing and layout across screens
• Various modal and button refinements
more Version 2.9.12 Mar 15
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