Aurora: Color Picker

Bought this app for the view giving all details of a color including CIELAB and CIEXYZ values. Unfortunately, those details seem to require server-side calculations (which are not currently working) rather than being computed on the phone. Hope that server support might be brought back up?

It seems like it might be a good app, but without any instructions on how to use it, it is pretty worthless.

Extremely accurate with the color picker. One problem I have is that the fps drops significantly when color picking a photo in your camera roll. Other than that this is a very excellently made app.

Hi there - just wanted to check if there is a plan to continue updating and maintaining this app? Right now since the last couple iOS updates not all functionality for the app is working - I can’t create new colors or review the details of one’s I have saved.

Solid app design, it’s the best I’ve found in its category in terms of simplicity and navigation…when it works. It’s currently very buggy. When I “heart” a color, the app crashes. When I create a new palette, the app crashes. Every time. Otherwise, it’s really great, and hoping that the developer will address the various bugs so that I can finally use it to its full potential!

I used to love Aurora, and was surprised to see the reviews in the state they are in, but then I grabbed it again and it made sense. The original author of this app (who you can find in the release notes for older versions) appears to have sold this and several other of his older apps to PoeticBytes, and every single one of them has reviews that mention crashing, strange behaviors, and functionality that just plain doesn't work. Aurora is definitely in sad shape now. It crashes frequently, windows can't resize correctly, I even got it into a state where each time I opened it, it opened multiple copies of the main window, and crashed when I tried to close one. On top of this, as of time of writing, PoeticBytes has no support or contact information on their site. I would definitely avoid any of their apps until/unless these issues are resolved.

This app works weil on the iPad but the MacOS version needs work. The detail windows are too small and if you try to close one the whole app disappears.

Lovely app, does a great job and looks good doing it. My only request would be to be able to export palettes as a PAL (JASC) and or GPL (Gimp) which are quite universal formats so that I can open the palette in other programs without needing a desktop app like Sip to pick the colors from the palette I created here. Exporting aside it’s a well made app and well worth the couple of dollars!

I just want to use the eyedrop to pick a color and have the app tell me it's green. This thing has the same functionality as numerous other color identifying apps. It gets you HEX, RGB, KGB, FBI and the whole alphabet. It just won't say "green".

I'm actually not sure what the point of this app is. The first screenshot says "Find your hue," which it doesn't really let you do. It simply displays colors if you already happen to know the hex. OR it lets you use Apple's color picker to choose a color to then view the color. Thanks.. The other screenshot says "Pick your hue." This is also lackluster. Zero consideration for alpha transperency in images. Zero ability to zoom or even see at the pixel level which color I can pick. What the app can actually do: Convert values from RGB to CMYK. But it's the same amount of work as pasting a hex code into Google or Wolfram and zero additional benefit. Straight-up: It overpromises and under-delivers.