Aurora is a beautiful and easy to use color picker and dictionary app. It is as feature-rich as it is gorgeous.
Key features:
- Live color picking from the camera
- Color picking from static images
- Manual color search
- Color replace in images
- Change color brightness and saturation
- Like and save colors
- View extensive information about colors (HEX, RGB, HSV, HSL, CMYK, XYZ, CIE-LAB, luminance, distance, and more)
- View binary, octal, and decimal RGB representations
- View suggested and related color palettes (including HKS, RAL, and Web)
- View and copy example CSS, Objective C, and Swift color code for quick usage
- View contrasts between colors
- Drag and Drop color reordering
- Drag and Drop to and from other apps
- Share and import colors as Hex values or images
- Import and export Procreate swatches
- Watch app to view latest liked colors and details
- Today Widget to view latest liked colors (tap to copy)
- Trackpad and cursor support
- Home screen Quick Actions
- Dark mode support
- Context menus support
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Aurora FAQ
Is Aurora free?
Yes, Aurora is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Aurora legit?
🤔 The Aurora app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
I use this app to do my designs. Not only it helps me to get great colors from photos, it also gives my options to go with these colors.
You can reach out to the developer when things don’t work as planned and he really does his best to fix it as soon as possible!
Trouble with the color details
I don’t understand. When I choose the color, the name and information isn’t loading too fast, it’s loading too long. And when I copy the info, it only shows nothing, (excluding the Hex) like rgb (0, 0, 0), hsv(0, 0, 0), etc.
Can you fix this, please?
Thank you.
Might be ok if…
It seems like it might be a good app, but without any instructions on how to use it, it is pretty worthless.
Love the app
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.
Update coming?
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.
Great Concept, but very buggy
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!
Crashes all of the time
It is not possible to close windows without the app crashing. Please fix this. This was a very useful app, but now it is unusable.
New owners
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.
iPad yes but MacOS not very useful
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.
Beautiful app
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!