Color Muse

Variable, Inc

In-app purchases

About this app

Color Match Made Easy®

Measure Color. Match with Confidence.
Color Muse® is the ultimate companion app for professionals who need fast, reliable, and accurate color matching. Wirelessly pair with any Color Muse device—Color Muse, Color Muse SE, Color Muse 2, or the new Color Muse 3—to instantly identify paint and product colors from over 100K colors from leading brands like Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore, Behr, PPG, and many more.

After wirelessly connecting your Color Muse, Color Muse SE, Color Muse 2, or Color Muse 3 device, the Color Muse app streamlines your color selection process for a faster and more confident color matching experience. No more hassling with cumbersome fan decks, paint chips or color swatches. Scan colors and find products that match, coordinate, and complement.


Now featuring Surface Smart Technology
Color Muse 3 is the only device in its class capable of measuring both color and surface sheen with our updated technology. Whether you're working with matte paint, glossy tile, textured plastics, or anything in between, you’ll get accurate results that reflect the true appearance of your surface.


Key Features:

• Measure Color Instantly – Scan any surface to capture its precise color values in CIE Lab, HEX, RGB, LCH, CMYK, and more.
• Sheen + Color Matching (Color Muse 2 and 3 only) – Automatically detect and measure gloss at 60° and differentiate between matte, eg-shell, satin, semi-gloss, and high gloss finishes.
• Match to over 100,000 Colors – Compare scans to top paint brands and product libraries from around the world.
• Save and Organize Colors – Create custom folders, share palettes, or export values for seamless integration into manufacturing, design, and QA workflows.
• Cross-Material Accuracy – Scan across paint, plastics, fabrics, and even printed materials with industry-leading consistency.
• Compact & Portable – All Color Muse devices are pocket-sized and Bluetooth-enabled for on-the-go use.
• Project Folders & Notes – Store scanned colors in your folders and record notes or project details for future reference.
• Share with Your Network – Easily share your saved colors with your connections through email or text.


In-app Purchases Available:

• Color Muse® + PANTONE® Color Subscription - works with Color Muse, Color Muse SE, and Color Muse 2 devices. Color Muse 3 SUPPORT COMING SOON. Users can access more than 16,500 Pantone colors directly through the Color Muse® app when they subscribe to a Pantone Color Subscription in the app.

• Color Muse® + RAL Color Subscription - works with Color Muse, Color Muse SE, Color Muse 2, and Color Muse 3 devices. Subscribed users can access up to 1,800+ colors from RAL, including the RAL K5 and D2 collections.


Works with All Color Muse Devices:

• Color Muse
• Color Muse SE
• Color Muse 2
• Color Muse 3 (New)

Ratings and reviews

This app allowed me to get a near-perfect color match for repainting my walls. Sunlight can fade paint over time, so I needed to scan my walls in several different places, then pick the color that came up more often. The tool is generally very accurate, especially if you can narrow down the search results by manufacturer. Click the Filter icon and choose the manufacturer(s). In my case, I knew the paint had come from either Sherman Williams or Benjamin Moore. The app provided me with a few color names that I then went to the paint store with. The user interface on this app is not the most intuitive, but after working with the app for a little while, it became easier. Still, it is much too tedious, and it can benefit from some significant improvements. Some suggestions: 1. Do not make the scan history an infinitely-scrolling loop. Stop the scroll when I get to the oldest scan. 2. Creating color palettes and saving colors to them is much too tedious. 3. The current version of the app requires me to create an account and login, before I can begin using the app. An older version of this app did not. 4. Syncing of my scans and color palettes to the online cloud account does not work consistently.

So far so good. Please add an option to clear all scan history, or select multiple, not just one by one. Saved pallettes from inspiration pictures should have pictures attached, or have link back to the picture. Also please group scan history into (renamable) groups of trial, because scanning a wall can take multiple tries, with slightly different results. That would put a whole bunch of colors in the history and get confused later.

Using the latest software version (Dec 2020)... I had 5 cans of paints in the basement that looked almost the same to me. This tool is amazing! I filtered by Sherwin Williams and it consistently got the exact color. Took about 10 samples and the exact color showed up 9 times. A little tip: this works best at night with the lights off. The one time it picked a similar color it wound being correct when i turned the lights off.