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Loupe

Color picker for people who ship.

Pick any pixel on your screen. Copy the color in 16 formats. Build palettes with color theory.

Download on the Mac App Store

$5.99 · No subscription · No account

Try it right here.

Pick a color. Watch every format update. Click any value to copy.

Dodger Blue

The browser eyedropper works in Chrome, Edge, and Opera.

Color theory built in. Not bolted on.

Every pick comes with harmony suggestions. Swap the seed — every row updates.

Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split complementary
Tetradic
Monochromatic

Click any swatch to adopt it as the new seed.

WCAG contrast. One glance.

AA, AAA, or fail. No ambiguity.

The quick brown fox
7.24 : 1
AAA
You could read this from space.

The whole thing.

Everything Loupe does, in plain English.

Pick instantly

Click the menu bar icon. Click a pixel. The color lands on your clipboard. Global shortcut from anywhere.

16 formats

CSS, Swift, SwiftUI, Android, .NET, OpenGL, Java, CGColor, Tailwind. Switch with one shortcut.

Auto-detect per app

Xcode gets Swift. VS Code gets CSS. Figma gets hex. You never pick the format.

Harmony palettes

Complementary, analogous, triadic, split, tetradic, monochromatic — inline on every color you pick.

Import and export

Palettes move as JSON, CLR, or ASE. Works with Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, and anything else that speaks swatch.

Contrast checker

WCAG 2.1 ratio at a glance. Auto-fix nudges toward a passing color while preserving your hue.

Color editor

HSB picker, hue slider, RGBA sliders, hex input. Shows every format at once. Click any to copy.

Keyboard-first

Every action has a shortcut. Customize every one. The mouse stays optional.

Stays out of the way

Lives in the menu bar. Monochrome UI. The only color on screen is the one you picked.

Loupe inspects color. That's the whole thing.

The details.

The fine print, without the fine print.

Price
$5.99. One payment. No subscription, no account, no annual renewal email.
Requirements
macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Apple silicon or Intel.
Privacy
No analytics. No network requests. No accounts. Everything stays on your Mac.
Data location
~/Library/Application Support/Loupe/
Formats
CSS Hex, RGB, RGBA, HSL, HSLA. Swift UIColor, NSColor, SwiftUI Color. Android, .NET, OpenGL, Java, CGColor, Tailwind — 16 in all.
Support
Support page · email · replies in a day or two

Go find some colors.

Download on the Mac App Store

$5.99. No subscription.