ColorMagic vs ColorPalette Pro

ColorMagic is a free web tool that generates color palettes with AI, and it also offers an API. Palette inputs can be names, images, text, or hex codes; users can upload an image to extract colors. Results can be copied as colors, CSS, or gradient effects, or downloaded as PNG. Saving favorite palettes requires login. The site also includes a random color generator, color mixer, contrast checker, color name finder, coloring book, and color shades. Its mixer combines two colors at an adjustable ratio and reports the result in hex and RGB. The free API offers a GET endpoint to search palettes by query, including tags and text, but the API may be changed or removed without warning. The site says palette generation is unlimited and may show ads. The coloring book supports online coloring and downloading or printing artwork; pages are free for personal use, classrooms, and therapy sessions without an account. For the coloring book photo feature, processing happens in the browser unless a user chooses to upload through Illustrate with AI. The privacy policy says the service uses Google Analytics cookies and may collect profile and submitted information, device details, access history, referrers, IP addresses, server logs, and identifiers.

ColorPalette Pro is a web app for generating customizable color palettes from a base color. It creates analogous, complementary, split complementary, triadic, tetradic, and tint-and-shade palettes, with square, triangle, circle, and diamond variations for each type. Colors can be entered as text, adjusted with sliders, selected with an eyedropper, recalled from history, chosen at random, or supplied through a URL. Supported color spaces include OKLCH, LAB, LCH, HSL, and RGB. UI mode generates interface palettes with surface and on-surface colors, including light and dark versions. Palette values can be copied as CSS, saved as a CSS file, or rendered as an image; a URL can preserve the chosen color and most options for sharing. Palette images can be dragged into Figma for sampling. The app matches color names through an API using hex values and uses Color.js for color-science functions. It is open source under the MIT license, and its maker says there are no plans for ads or subscriptions. The eyedropper is unavailable in Firefox and mobile browsers.