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Point your camera at anything and pal8 names its colors, live. Free, works offline, no account.
Get it onGoogle PlayYour photos never leave your phone.
Point your camera at anything and pal8 names its colors, live. Free, works offline, no account.
Get it onGoogle PlayYour photos never leave your phone.
Point your camera at anything — pal8 names its colors live, matches the closest pal8tone, and turns the moment into a card worth sharing. Free, no sign-up — on Google Play for Android, and right here in your browser.
On a laptop with a webcam? Try the app here anyway →
Open pal8 and aim at anything — a wall, a flower, your coffee, the sky. The color engine reads the scene in real time. No sign-up, nothing to configure.
Five dominant colors appear live with real names and hex codes. Pinch to zoom, tap any pixel to pick it, or hold still for four seconds and pal8 averages the frames into a reading you could buy paint on.
Press the shutter and your photo becomes a card — pal8tone chip, Polaroid, museum placard, poster, or a die-cut postage stamp. Hold the shutter to record video with the palette baked in. Everything is pressed into a scrapbook you can turn like a real book.
Every capture becomes a card. Scroll — the deck deals itself.
Found July 2026 — late light on a brick wall, matched and titled on the spot.
#F4C95DThis is the same engine the camera uses — 4,945 names, pal8tone Coated, and 213 RAL Classic codes, matched on your device in real time.
“Golden Hour” says more than #F4C95D ever will. Every color the camera sees gets a real name — matched perceptually, the moment you point.
Frame something in the perforated window and press the shutter. pal8 cuts your photo into a stamp — scalloped edge, printed margin, the maker’s mark worn into the corner the way old ink ages.
Held open in front of you, spine across the middle. Swipe and the lower leaf turns over onto the upper one, with the sound of paper. The stock is aged at run time — foxing, fibre grain, a shade in the crease.
Variables get the colour’s real name, not --color-1. And pal8 sits in your phone’s share sheet, so any photo from any app can be read for its colours.
Eight colors, one theme — hunt them down in the world around you.
One color a day. Find it, keep your streak alive.
One hue, five depths — from whisper to shout.
Name the swatch. Harder than it sounds — try it right here →
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The full arcade — streaks, ladders, color hunts — lives in the app on your phone.Your colors never leave your device.
No account. No uploads. No ads. Every name, every match, every card and the whole scrapbook are computed in your browser — offline once installed — and everything you capture stays in your pocket.
Open pal8, switch to pal8tone mode, and point your camera at the object. pal8 finds the scene's hero color and matches it to the closest coated swatch in the pal8tone set, with RGB and CMYK values. Press the shutter to save it as a card.
pal8 names colors in real time from a library of nearly 5,000 curated color names — point your camera and each of the five dominant colors gets a name and hex code instantly.
Yes. pal8 is completely free, with no sign-up and no account. Open pal8.in in your phone browser and start capturing.
Yes — after the first visit, pal8 works offline. Install it to your home screen and all color naming, pal8tone matching, and card styles run entirely on your device.
On Android, get pal8 free from Google Play. On iPhone, an App Store version is coming soon; until then, open pal8.in in Safari, tap Share, then choose Add to Home Screen.
Yes. Any capture exports as .ase for Illustrator and InDesign, .aco for Photoshop, .swatches for Procreate, or an SVG swatch sheet with RGB and CMYK for print handoff. You can also copy a palette as CSS custom properties, Tailwind config, SCSS, SwiftUI or Jetpack Compose — with each color named, not numbered.
A capture style that cuts your photo into a postage stamp with a perforated edge. It saves as a transparent PNG, so it is a genuine die-cut you can place on anything, or you can mount it on a 9:16 poster in any color you have already caught.
No. pal8 has no account and no server for your images. Color naming, matching, card rendering and the scrapbook all run on your device, and everything you capture stays in your browser's storage.
Matches are computed in CIE Lab space, which follows how human vision judges difference. For a reading you can rely on, calibrate the white balance by pointing at white paper and tapping once, then hold still for a steady four-second measurement. Screens and lighting still vary, so treat every match as an excellent starting point rather than a certified one.
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Point your camera at anything and watch its five dominant colors appear live. Tap to capture the photo together with its palette.
Little games that train your eye — played with the world around you. Every one is free.
A first look. Tap a shade to copy it — tap a title to take the whole palette.
Understand color,
ten cards at a time.
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Pick a theme. You’ll get eight colors — point your camera at the world until you’ve caught every one.
pal8 is a live color palette camera. Point it at anything — a wall, a sunset, a sneaker — and it names the colors it sees, matches the closest pal8tone, and turns the moment into a card worth sharing.
Yes — completely free, no account needed.
No. All analysis happens on your device. pal8 has no servers and never sees your photos.
Yes, after your first visit — install it to your home screen for the full experience.
pal8 compares colors in the Lab color space — the way human eyes judge difference — against the pal8tone Coated library. Screen and lighting conditions affect any camera-based match, so treat it as a very good starting point.
Where pal8 is headed. No dates, no promises — just what’s on the bench right now, in the order we care about it.
The honest fine print — short, human, and worth thirty seconds of your time.
pal8 finds the closest pal8tone color to what your camera sees — it is a very good approximation, not an exact certified match. Cameras, screens, and lighting all shift color, so treat every match as a reference and a starting point, never as a substitute for a physical printed swatch guide in production work. pal8tone is pal8’s own in-app name for its coated-color reference set; pal8 is an independent project and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any commercial color-matching system, ink manufacturer, or standards body.
pal8 does not save, upload, or even see your photos. There are no servers and no accounts — every capture lives only in this app’s local storage on your device, and all color analysis happens right there too.
Because everything is stored locally, uninstalling pal8 (or clearing this browser’s site data) permanently deletes all your captures. Please save the photos and cards you love to your gallery first — open any capture and use the save buttons.
Named shades, hex codes, RAL references, and harmony suggestions are computed from what your camera reports, which varies with device and light. They are made for inspiration and everyday reference — not for safety-critical or professional color decisions like electrical wiring codes, medical test strips, or paint-batch matching.
The colorblind simulation modes are approximations of how color vision deficiencies can appear. They are a design-empathy tool, not a diagnostic one.
pal8 is provided free, as-is, and made with a lot of care. If anything looks off, tell us — hello@pal8.in — we read everything.
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A 9:16 poster with the stamp centred. Pick any colour you’ve caught.
Each of these rewrites the palette and copies it — your capture is never changed.
Every invite is a little transit ticket in a random color — this one’s —. Send it to a friend who loves color.
Find something in this color today and capture it — any style counts.
pal8Point your camera at anything — a wall, a plate, the sky before rain — and pal8 lifts its five truest colors, live, as you move.