Our pick
Sip
Color picker and palette manager.
- Best for
- Color picker
- Mac support
- Mac
- Free option
- No
- One-time purchase
- No
- Made by
- Sip
A polished color picker for collecting, converting, naming, and organizing colors.
Best indie Mac apps for
Color & Design Utility
Design utilities help with color picking, palettes, measurements, icons, and tiny visual production tasks.
Best free option
ColorSlurp
Color picker and palette tool.
- Best for
- Simple color picking
- Mac support
- Mac + iPhone/iPad
- Free option
- Yes
- One-time purchase
- Yes
- Made by
- IdeaPunch
A friendly color picker with magnifier, palettes, formats, and Apple-platform support.
Power pick
Pika
Open-source color picker for macOS.
- Best for
- Free color picker
- Mac support
- Mac
- Free option
- Yes
- One-time purchase
- No
- Made by
- Superhighfives
A small open-source color picker with a native Mac feel.
Lightweight pick
System Color Picker
A supercharged standalone macOS color picker.
- Best for
- Native color picking
- Mac support
- macOS
- Free option
- Yes
- One-time purchase
- No
- Made by
- Sindre Sorhus
It keeps the familiar macOS color picker but adds a focused app wrapper, shortcuts, and quality-of-life details.
Alternative
IconJar
Icon organizer for design assets.
- Best for
- Icon library
- Mac support
- Mac
- Free option
- No
- One-time purchase
- Yes
- Made by
- Indie team
A focused app for organizing, searching, and using icon sets in design workflows.