Color Name AR 4+

Great App for Colorblind

I’m a color-challenged person, and I’m always at a disadvantage while shopping or trying to pick things up for the wife and kids. This app allows me to quickly see if I’m picking up something pink that I thought was gray, or lavender when I thought it was light blue. The app quickly changes colors as you scan with your camera, and it’s cool to see how many shades there really are! One suggested improvement: allow access to the iPhone flashlight. Is the flashlight dimmable? Because accurate color is only as good as the available lighting, having access to the flashlight would maximize the accuracy of the color checker.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your support! Will add such a feature with upcoming update.

Only supports one device per purchase

While this app is pretty sophisticated as far as identifying color is concerned, I was very disappointed to find that when I purchased it on my iPhone, I was asked to purchase it again on my iPad. There is nowhere to “restore purchases” on my iPad. Also, the iPad version does not rotate so your are stuck using it in vertical mode which seems really odd to me given how mature this app is and the fact that so many people use their iPad in landscape mode these days. The other glaring function that’s missing is the ability to zoom in. This is basically a deal breaker for me. In order to identify smaller patches of color accurately, I have to make a copy of the image in another app and crop into the area where I want to check the color. I contacted the developer a few days ago about all this (especially about the limitation of devices with my purchase) but they have not responded. Overall, I’m very disappointed.

EDIT: I’m reducing my review by another star because the developer has been completely unresponsive to my emails.

Good until the update

First off, this app is really great. I have never seen another one like it. This was a lot of fun to mess around with up until the new update. Instead of saying a real color, it just says a common one. For example; let’s say I pointed the camera on a brown item. The app would just say “brown family,” but the old version would say something like Dark Carmel. It just doesn’t make the app fun or useful anymore.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback, I have added ability to switch between old style and new representation in settings. So you can get a lot of fun with the great color names again!