I asked this sub a year ago how to make my color identifier app actually useful for color blind people. Here's what I changed
ColorID color scanner app was already on the App Store for iOS (iPhone/iPad) users when I posted here last year. I built it for designers. I came here because I thought it could help colorblind people too, and I didn't want to guess at the features.
(Check last year's post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorBlind/comments/1jq4a9v/im_building_a_color_identifier_app_and_want_to/ )
u/AKLmfreak wrote the list. u/SirMunzo and u/soul-of-kai added more. I said I'd come back. I went back and added those things.
What I added:
- Freeze. There's an on-screen toggle. Point, freeze, read the name. You don't have to hold still.
- Simple names. About 18 of them: red vs brown, blue vs purple, green vs yellow. Not "cerulean" or "slate." Just dark blue, brown, pink, etc. Color-blind mode is a toggle on the camera (eye icon) and in Settings.
- History. You can save a color when you freeze it. That's the capture list (paid feature after 3).
- Movable marker. Drag it onto the thing you want. It averages a small area around the marker, so a bright spot or a shadow is less likely to call orange "brown."
- Flash is there. On/off only.
What I still haven't done:
- Flash brightness isn't adjustable. Full on or off.
- Android isn't out. I started it, then the iOS side ate the year. I'll come back here if that changes. Sorry u/soul-of-kai.
One more thing, because subscriptions came up last time and I don't want to dance around it.
The app is still commercial. The rest of it is for designers, painters, architects. HEX, RGB, CMYK, Pantone, RAL, plus paint catalogs (Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore, Behr, Farrow & Ball, IKEA, PPG, and others). That's a different audience. That's how I keep working on it.
If a paywall comes up, you can just close it. Color-blind mode, the simple names, freeze, the marker, and live identification with camera keep working. Those are not behind a purchase. I left them free on purpose. If you just need "is this wire blue or purple," you shouldn't have to pay.
Pantone / RAL / paint catalogs / saving a big library of colors are paid. I'm not going to pretend otherwise.
If you try it and the names are still wrong for how you actually see things, tell me. Same reason I posted last year.
You can download and try it for iPhone / iPad on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/colorid-color-identifier/id6743502447
If you try it, tell me what's still wrong or missing. Names that don't make sense, stuff I should add, stuff I should drop. That's why I'm posting again.
Thank you!
