Colora vs Gpick

Colora is a free Windows color converter and screen picker for selecting and saving colors. The screen picker includes zoom for more precise selection, and the converter handles RGB, HEX, HSB, HSL and CMYK. You can create custom palettes, save them for later and export them to GIMP; an automatic history also retains recently picked colors. Window controls let Colora stay on top of other windows or use a minimal size mode. It requires Windows 7 or newer and .NET Framework 4.6 or higher. The maker says the picker has been tested with Windows 10 and DPI scaling. Downloads are offered through SourceForge, with installation also available through Chocolatey. Colora is published by Bluegrams under the BSD 3-Clause license. SourceForge lists version 0.3.1, dated September 11, 2020, as the latest release.

Gpick is a free, open-source color picker and palette editor for Linux. It samples colors from the desktop, with magnification and keyboard control of the pointer, and can assign names to colors automatically. Palette tools let users build palettes from images, generate schemes, mix colors, adjust lightness or saturation, and create harmonious colors. For noisy or patterned sources, oversampling averages multiple pixel values using five falloff types. Gpick imports and exports Inkscape/GIMP palettes and Adobe Swatch Exchange files; export options also include MTL, CSS, HTML, and customizable text files. HTML exports can be shared as palette previews with people who do not use palette software. A floating mode provides a pointer-following window and notification-area icon for basic picking, but excludes palette editing and color adjustment. Command-line arguments let other programs and scripts use Gpick. Downloads include Debian and Ubuntu packages for amd64 and source archives. The project repository identifies its license as BSD-3-Clause.