Pastel

Name: Pastel
Rating: 4.7 (1021 reviews)
Author: Steven Troughton-Smith

Beautiful color palettes

Free · In‑App Purchases

1K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Developer Tools
Developer

Steven Troughton-Smith
Language

EN
English
Size

7.9
MB

Freshly-redesigned for macOS 26 Tahoe and Liquid Glass. Capture and collect color palettes with Pastel! Pastel is an app for amateur developers & artists (like us!) that lets you build up a library of color palettes to use in your projects. With drag & drop, drag colors out into other apps like Pages and Keynote, or many third-party apps from your favorite developers, so you can use your Pastel library as your master color collection across apps. Seamlessly sync your library across devices with iCloud. Analyze photos to determine their dominant colors — choosing specific colors manually if you wish — and save their color palettes to Pastel. Includes a variety of color pickers, like wheel, RGB sliders, and crayons, or pick named colors from your color library that you curate yourself. Drag and drop from the sidebar to any palette. Copy a variety of developer-focused code representations, like RGB, hex, Objective-C, Swift and SwiftUI. Paste hex codes into the sliders color picker. From the menu bar, bring up the color picker from wherever you are and sample colors from the screen. Copy a pixel bitmap representation of a palette to paste into your favorite pixel editor, or export as an image. In the free version, try out the built-in library, and add your own palettes up to a limit of 20 items total. Upgrade to the unlimited version using a straightforward, once-off in-app purchase.

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

1K Ratings

Love this app!!
08/20/2021

Fard2500
Shooting a documentary and this app has been essential to me developing my lookbook. If you have control over the look of your project then its essential to have help developing the look that will help you tell part of your story. The look and mood that you obtain from your colors in your movie or project are just as important as the words you write down in your script or the picture you draw ... Don't neglect your project and don't get caught off guard having never made the effort to choose a look for your project ... get this app!!!!
Love this app!!
08/20/2021

Fard2500

Shooting a documentary and this app has been essential to me developing my lookbook. If you have control over the look of your project then its essential to have help developing the look that will help you tell part of your story. The look and mood that you obtain from your colors in your movie or project are just as important as the words you write down in your script or the picture you draw ... Don't neglect your project and don't get caught off guard having never made the effort to choose a look for your project ... get this app!!!!
Custom palettes costantly disappear, no real product support or documentation
02/05/2022

SomDowns
I recently purchased and downloaded this app a few hours ago to my Mac Pro running macOS Monterey. I spend an hour creating several custom palettes I put into a "collection". Suddenly, all of my palettes were gone. The "collection" was still there, but empty. I tried a few tests (making more colors, palettes, collections, open/close the app after creating them), and the palettes would either disappear out of the collection, or the palettes might still be there, but empty of colors. There is no real support for tis product. A webiste/support linke in the Apple App Store goes to webpage, which in turn, has a link back to the App Store. There is a Twitter link, where I suppose that is where we're supposed to learn how to use this app and get support. But I don't care to use Twitter, certainly not for support on a product I spent money on. I see no way to get real support nor a refund. Hopefully others are not having similar loss of time and productivity with this app.

Developer Response
Hi SomDowns,Sorry to hear about your experience. We have a support link on the website that lets you get support via email; feedback@highcaffeinecontent.com. Twitter is for providing realtime support, best for minor issues or questions you just need a quick answer to. Email is preferable for crash logs and the like. You can, of course request a refund through the App Store (https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT204084), as it handles everything to do with payment processing.It sounds like there might be an iCloud syncing issue at play here (see also https://9to5mac.com/2022/01/24/icloud-syncing-issues-are-plaguing-third-party-apps-as-apple-stays-silent/), but I'd love to hear if you're still running into the same problems. Please reach out if you'd still like to debug/fix this, but I totally understand if you're just happier to get a refund as per the steps above.Hope that helps!
Custom palettes costantly disappear, no real product support or documentation
02/05/2022

SomDowns

I recently purchased and downloaded this app a few hours ago to my Mac Pro running macOS Monterey. I spend an hour creating several custom palettes I put into a "collection". Suddenly, all of my palettes were gone. The "collection" was still there, but empty. I tried a few tests (making more colors, palettes, collections, open/close the app after creating them), and the palettes would either disappear out of the collection, or the palettes might still be there, but empty of colors. There is no real support for tis product. A webiste/support linke in the Apple App Store goes to webpage, which in turn, has a link back to the App Store. There is a Twitter link, where I suppose that is where we're supposed to learn how to use this app and get support. But I don't care to use Twitter, certainly not for support on a product I spent money on. I see no way to get real support nor a refund. Hopefully others are not having similar loss of time and productivity with this app.
Developer Response 02/10/2022
Hi SomDowns,Sorry to hear about your experience. We have a support link on the website that lets you get support via email; feedback@highcaffeinecontent.com. Twitter is for providing realtime support, best for minor issues or questions you just need a quick answer to. Email is preferable for crash logs and the like. You can, of course request a refund through the App Store (https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT204084), as it handles everything to do with payment processing.It sounds like there might be an iCloud syncing issue at play here (see also https://9to5mac.com/2022/01/24/icloud-syncing-issues-are-plaguing-third-party-apps-as-apple-stays-silent/), but I'd love to hear if you're still running into the same problems. Please reach out if you'd still like to debug/fix this, but I totally understand if you're just happier to get a refund as per the steps above.Hope that helps!
Much more than a colorpicker (but oddly, not a colorpicker)
11/18/2021

VeryVito
This is a great palette management tool, and it does what it does really well. If you just need a colorpicker, though, this isn't that: In fact, the only way you DON'T bring colors into this app is the one way I (perhaps foolishly) had assumed I would -- By using a system-wide keyboard shortcut to pull up an eye dropper to select a color (Hint to the developer: This would be a great addition).Regardless, it's a great organizer, and I paid for the full version -- even after realizing I'd also need a colorpicker to go along with it (ie, my only issue with it lies with my expectation rather than with the app itself).
Much more than a colorpicker (but oddly, not a colorpicker)
11/18/2021

VeryVito

This is a great palette management tool, and it does what it does really well. If you just need a colorpicker, though, this isn't that: In fact, the only way you DON'T bring colors into this app is the one way I (perhaps foolishly) had assumed I would -- By using a system-wide keyboard shortcut to pull up an eye dropper to select a color (Hint to the developer: This would be a great addition).Regardless, it's a great organizer, and I paid for the full version -- even after realizing I'd also need a colorpicker to go along with it (ie, my only issue with it lies with my expectation rather than with the app itself).
Great App With One Flaw
11/03/2022

Achaerone
This is a fantastic app for building up a library of color palettes. It's got first-class organizational capabilities, allowing you to drop palettes into one or more collections, and plenty of ways to export your palettes either to visualize them or use them in software.The one thing it's missing is a URL scheme. If you want to navigate to a particular palette, you have to manually open the application and either browse or search for it. I'd love to be able to generate links to palettes, that I could either record in a notes application or attach via Hookmark, allowing me to jump directly to the linked-to palette.
Great App With One Flaw
11/03/2022

Achaerone

This is a fantastic app for building up a library of color palettes. It's got first-class organizational capabilities, allowing you to drop palettes into one or more collections, and plenty of ways to export your palettes either to visualize them or use them in software.The one thing it's missing is a URL scheme. If you want to navigate to a particular palette, you have to manually open the application and either browse or search for it. I'd love to be able to generate links to palettes, that I could either record in a notes application or attach via Hookmark, allowing me to jump directly to the linked-to palette.