App Profile: Color Name AR

Dagoba System

Rating: 4/5

I’m a color-challenged person, and I’m always at a disadvantage while shopping or trying to pick things up for the wife and kids. This app allows me to quickly see if I’m picking up something pink that I thought was gray, or lavender when I thought it was light blue. The app quickly changes colors as you scan with your camera, and it’s cool to see how many shades there really are! One suggested improvement: allow access to the iPhone flashlight. Is the flashlight dimmable? Because accurate color is only as good as the available lighting, having access to the flashlight would maximize the accuracy of the color checker.

Steven Dempsey

Rating: 1/5

While this app is pretty sophisticated as far as identifying color is concerned, I was very disappointed to find that when I purchased it on my iPhone, I was asked to purchase it again on my iPad. There is nowhere to “restore purchases” on my iPad. Also, the iPad version does not rotate so your are stuck using it in vertical mode which seems really odd to me given how mature this app is and the fact that so many people use their iPad in landscape mode these days. The other glaring function that’s missing is the ability to zoom in. This is basically a deal breaker for me. In order to identify smaller patches of color accurately, I have to make a copy of the image in another app and crop into the area where I want to check the color. I contacted the developer a few days ago about all this (especially about the limitation of devices with my purchase) but they have not responded. Overall, I’m very disappointed. EDIT: I’m reducing my review by another star because the developer has been completely unresponsive to my emails.

XxiMDrUnKxX

Rating: 3/5

This app does a great job in identifying colors but I feel like the app is constantly pressuring me to pay for the subscription. The app just keeps popping up the subscription screen when I don’t want to. I just want to use the app, not use my money for it. I understand the developer wants money for this app but you don’t need to keep annoyingly put the subscription over and over on the screen. It should be the user’s decision to support this app by paying for the subscription but really I downloaded this because I was drawing something and looking over an image. I had difficulties trying to guess what colors I needed to use. Seriously, put the subscription screen on the side somewhere where like a tab button to go to it instead of just trying to throw the subscription down my throat