Color Blind Pal

Vincent Fiorentini

About this app

Color Blind Pal helps people who are color blind see the colors around them. It also lets people with normal vision see what it's like to be color blind.

Want to know what color something is? Now you don't need to ask a friend - just open the Color Inspector to get a descriptive name, like "bold brown".

Want to see all colors more clearly? Use the Color Filter to shift colors that are hard to distinguish toward colors that you can easily distinguish. It'll be as easy for you to spot an orange pumpkin in a green field as it is for everyone else. Or, do you have normal color vision and want to know what someone who's color blind sees? The Color Filter can also simulate any type of color blindness. Open the preferences (with the ⓘ button) to select your color blindness type.

Press "Inspecting Color" or "Filtering Colors" to switch between the two modes.

Simply open the app and point your device's camera at what you want to see! If someone gives you a green form and a yellow form and asks you to fill out the green one, open the Color Inspector to tell which is which. If you're struggling to read a color-coded map, use the Color Filter to make the colors easy to distinguish.

With Color Blind Pal, you can do the following and much more:
* Find out exactly what any color is
* Read any color-coded map, chart, or graph
* Pass a color vision test (it turns out there really are numbers in those dots!)

Color Blind Pal is packed with powerful features to make sure you never need anyone else's help seeing colors.

Additional features in the Color Inspector include:
* Choose between different types of names for a color, including Common names, Scientific names, and Colloquial names (like "beige")
* See the color's hue, saturation, and value, as well as its exact RGB color code
* Freeze the camera and inspect different colors across the image

Additional features in the Color Filter include:
* Highlight a selected color
* Select a color by pressing it on the screen or by dragging the color spectrum slider
* Draw a stripe pattern over all reddish colors so you can tell what color everything is without changing the colors
* Freeze the camera and experiment with different filters to get an exact sense of what the image really looks like
* Hide all the buttons on the screen so your device becomes a portal through which you see the world in richer color

Don't be held back by color blindness ever again - get Color Blind Pal today!

Ratings and reviews

Early review: I only downloaded this to be able to tell the difference between red and green LEDs , particularly on power source type devices, and it works PERFECT! I honestly can't tell the difference at all between those r/g LEDs and this tells me instantly. Can't wait to try other things, but just looking around my room, it names every color you put in the cross hairs.

Honestly, meh, but it's the only app of its kind I have found. To the person who complained of many colors being called 'dull orange' or 'dull brown', yes it does that. You can however click on advanced and then at least get the RGB values. I still wish it could identify colors in other apps or at least screenshots, not just with the live camera.

I've got tritanomoly. Not that it should make much of a difference for the review. I don't know why this doesn't have five stars across the board. I don't know why I've had it for years and years and never rated it. Helps with my photography, great when I try to avoid a flavor of jelly-bean, good for naming crayons, can give you a weird terminator color extraction I have yet to find a practical purpose for but am sure there is one, lightweight, free, ad free, stable, what do you ppl want?

What’s new

Updated the app to support the latest versions of Android.