Color Apps

App: Voice of Color by PPG
Price: Free
Available On: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android
What does it do? Once you’ve matched your color to the PPG color colection, Voice of Color serves up a color card and you can choose to view shades of the color or harmony colors. You can easily save your favorites, add notes and order 8x12 sample sheets. Voice of Color also allows you to browse the PPG color collections and over 1,800 colors, find the closest retailer, and link up with Voice of Color via Facebook and Twitter.

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App: ColorSmart by Behr
Price: Free
Available On: iPhone, iPad and Android
What does it do? Once you’ve matched your color, this app has a feature that shows how colors will work together in preloaded example rooms. It comes with a handy paint calculator and shows the closest store that carries Behr Paint. You can keep a list of your favorite palettes, rooms, paint calculations and store locations for quick access. You can even share your projects by email or on Facebook or Twitter.

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App: Benjamin Moore Color Capture
Price: Free
Available On: iPhone and Android

What does it do? In addition to including the color-capture feature, this app ensures that you’ll always have Benjamin Moore color cards at your fingertips. One of the handy features of this app is that you can save photos and color swatches to your photo album, which gives you the ability to create photos for clients and email the inspiration photo with color swatches. It also allows you to search for the closest Benjamin Moore store so you can quickly pick up your client’s paint.

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App: Sherwin-Williams ColorSnap
Price: Free
Available On: iPhone, Android and Blackberry
What does it do? This app gives the color details and the best coordinating colors to the color you’ve matched. From there add colors, adjust colors and create well-rounded palettes. Palettes can be saved under the project name for easy identification later and are easily emailed to clients. ColorSnap also allows you to play on the color wheel and browse all the SW colors. Once the color choice has been made, easily search by zip code for nearest Sherwin-Williams store.

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App: Olympic ColorClix
Price: Free
Available On: iPhone, Android and Windows Phone
What does it do? This app automatically pulls the colors from the photo and lines them up under the photo. Easily buy samples, add colors to a favorites list or create a project. The best thing about this app is that there is a place for notes in each project. Once you have a project saved with color choices and notes, you can email information to the client or post it on Facebook or Twitter.

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App: ColorSchemer
Price: Free
Available On: iPhone and iPod touch
What does it do? If you are obsessed with color, this is the app for you. This app comes with a community of 450,000 “Colourlovers”. You can browse through endless palettes created by members, or search keywords to find the color palette that best matches the feeling your client wants the room to express. Pull colors from photos or from the color wheel. Float your latest and greatest palette creation out to the Colourlovers community and get feedback. Palettes can also be saved and emailed clients.

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App: Any Paint Color
Price: $2.99
Available On: iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
What does it do? This is a pretty cool app because it has color matching capabilities for over 100 brands of paint. This app is really simple to use and extremely helpful. Once you have matched the color to your preferred manufacturer, either go to the nearest dealer or purchase directly from My Perfect Color.

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App: Painting Walls Light/Painting Walls Pro
Price: Free/$2.99
Available On: iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
What does it do? Save your creation and email it to a client, or send it to the crew to ensure that there is no mistake about what color goes where. Share on Facebook or Twitter so all of your future clients will know the awesome service you provide. The differences between the paid version and the free version are the ads and a much larger color palette on the paid version.

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App: Color Change
Price: $2.99
Available On: iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
What does it do? This app doesn’t allow you to browse colors or swatches; simply use
the sliding scale to adjust hue, saturation, brightness and blend. Once you have landed on the perfect color, it displays the HSB, RGB and CMYK. The save feature on this app automatically saves the photo to your album.

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App: Paint Swatches
Price: $1.99
Available On: iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
What does it do? This is not a color-capturing app or a virtual painting app, but I think it’s a great organizational tool. Peruse color choices from Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams, Behr, California Paints, Glidden and C2. Create project profiles for each client, save color palettes and notes (ideas, costs, etc.), and email them to the crew or the client.

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