What Color Tools and Features Does ColorSlurp Offer?

ColorSlurp is a color picker and color-tool suite for Mac and iOS, built for designers, developers, and artists. It covers the full loop of working with color: picking a color from your screen, editing it, saving it into palettes and projects, checking its accessibility, and exporting it into whatever format your project needs. If your work involves moving colors between a screen, a design file, and code, the feature set below is what you'd be evaluating.

Picking colors

Precision magnifier

The core tool is a magnifier that picks any color on your screen. You can move it with your cursor, with the arrow keys, or long-press to slow its movement for pixel-level precision. Magnifier size and zoom are adjustable so you can view objects up close, and you can pick multiple colors at once. Once picked, a single click copies the color.

Camera color picker

On supported devices, you can pick colors with your camera, turning a physical object or environment into a color value.

Editing and color spaces

ColorSlurp supports editing and saving colors in modern color spaces: OKLCH, LAB, Display P3, RGB, HSL, and CMYK. That matters if you need access to a wider gamut than sRGB, or if you're working in a perceptually uniform space like OKLCH. Editing tools include a color wheel alongside the standard pickers.

Copying and pasting colors

• One-click copy to any format — copy a color to any format for any language.
• Custom formats — define your own output format if the built-in ones don't match your codebase. The site's example is a custom format like MyColor(0x25c9c8).
• Paste from clipboard — paste a color directly into ColorSlurp from the clipboard to edit it quickly.

Palettes and projects

• Create and save palettes, name individual colors, and add them to palettes.
• Organize palettes into projects.
• Real-time sync across all your devices.
• Export formats include Sketch, Procreate, .ase, Images, PDF, CSS, Sass, Swift, HTML, JSON, .clr, and more.
• Palette generator — generate palettes automatically from your photos or images.
• Curated palettes — browse built-in palettes inside the app for inspiration.

Accessibility and contrast

The color contrast checker instantly checks the contrast between two colors against standards such as WCAG and APCA. It can fix contrast issues with one click, adjusting the background, the foreground, or both evenly.

Platforms and reception

ColorSlurp runs on Mac and iOS and is available via the App Store. The site states it has over 10,000 five-star ratings on the App Store and is used by what it describes as thousands of world-class creators. A user guide, "What's New," and help resources are linked from the site, and the download is presented as free — check the App Store listing for current pricing and any in-app purchase details, since the site itself doesn't state them.

Quick fit check

If your needs are limited to grabbing a hex code occasionally, the picker alone may be more than you need. If you regularly move color between screen, design tools, and code while tracking accessibility, the combination of picking, color spaces, custom formats, sync, and contrast checking is the part worth testing first.