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ColorSlurp is a color picker and color-tool suite for Mac and iOS, aimed at designers, developers, and artists. It solves the everyday problem of getting an exact color off your screen and into a usable format: you pick a color with a precision magnifier, edit it with professional color tools, save it into palettes, and copy or export it to whatever format your project needs. It is available as a download from the App Store.
What ColorSlurp actually does
The core loop is pick → edit → copy, with palette management wrapped around it.
- Pick: A high-precision magnifier samples any color on your screen. You can move it with the cursor, with the arrow keys, or long-press to slow its movement for pixel-perfect accuracy. Magnifier size and zoom are adjustable, and you can pick multiple colors at once.
- Edit: Colors can be adjusted using a color wheel and advanced editing tools, and pasted in from the clipboard for quick editing.
- Copy: One click copies a color to any format for any language, including custom formats you define yourself. The site gives the example
MyColor(0x25c9c8). - Organize: Name colors, add them to palettes, group palettes into projects, and sync across devices in real time.
Who it is for
ColorSlurp is positioned for people who move color between tools all day:
| User | Typical use |
|---|---|
| Designers | Sampling brand or reference colors, building palettes, checking contrast |
| Developers | Copying colors straight into CSS, Sass, Swift, HTML, or JSON |
| Artists | Generating palettes from images and moving them into Sketch or Procreate |
If you only need to grab a hex code occasionally, the built-in pickers in macOS may be enough. ColorSlurp earns its place when you need accuracy, multiple output formats, and palettes that stay in sync.
Key features worth knowing
Color formats and custom output
One-click copy works across formats and languages, and you can create your own custom format strings — useful when a framework expects a non-standard color syntax.
Palette manager and export
Palettes can be exported to Sketch, Procreate, .ase, images, PDF, CSS, Sass, Swift, HTML, JSON, .clr, and more. Real-time sync keeps palettes consistent across your Mac and iOS devices.
Palette generator
ColorSlurp can build palettes automatically from your photos or images, and you can browse curated palettes inside the app when you want inspiration rather than extraction.
Contrast checker
It checks the contrast of two colors against standards such as WCAG and APCA, and can fix contrast issues in one click by adjusting the background, the foreground, or both evenly. This matters if your work has to pass accessibility review.
Modern color spaces
Editing and saving support OKLCH, LAB, Display P3, RGB, HSL, and CMYK, so you are not limited to sRGB when your design or print workflow needs a wider gamut.
Camera color picker
On supported devices, the camera can sample colors from your physical environment rather than your screen.
How to decide
Choose ColorSlurp if you work across Mac and iOS, need precise on-screen sampling, and want colors to flow into code or design tools without manual conversion. Look elsewhere if you only need a single-format picker and no palette management — the extra tooling would go unused.
The site reports over 10,000 five-star ratings on the App Store, which is a signal of adoption rather than a guarantee of fit for your workflow. The most reliable check is to install it and run one real task: sample a color from a design reference, copy it into your project's format, and save it to a palette. If that loop feels fast, the rest of the suite will too.