Every color on your Mac, a click away.
ColorCopy lives in your menu bar. Click any pixel on your screen and the color lands on your clipboard in your favorite format. No DevTools gymnastics. No Figma side-quest. No account to create.
macOS 26.2+ · Free forever, Pro if you want · No subscription
What it does (really well)
(Compelling demo video coming soon)
One click. Any pixel. Your clipboard.
Press your hotkey, click the pixel you want, done. It uses the same sandboxed color sampler that Apple uses in Xcode and Preview, so it’s pixel-perfect and works inside every app, website, video, and PDF on your Mac. No flaky browser extensions, no “open DevTools first” rituals, no third-party servers in the loop.
20+ formats for the code you actually ship
HEX, CSS, Swift, SwiftUI, UIColor, NSColor, Obj-C, .NET, Java, Android. Pick once, copy in whatever the current project demands. No mental hex‑to‑float conversion at 2 AM.
Ship colors that pass WCAG
Built-in contrast checker with AA and AAA ratings for normal and large text. Failing a threshold? One click and ColorCopy adjusts the color to the exact ratio you need.
Three steps. Zero friction.
Hit your hotkey
Or right-click the menu bar icon. Whichever you prefer.
Click a pixel
Anywhere. Any app, website, video, PDF, or screenshot.
Paste anywhere
Your chosen format is already on your clipboard.
Every format you actually use.
Web
Apple platforms
Cross-platform
Pay once. Or never.
- HEX, HEXA, CSS RGB, RGBA, HSL, HSLA
- Global hotkey & menu bar access
- Recent colors (last 8)
- Hash prefix, uppercase/lowercase
- Nine copy sounds (or silent)
- Launch at login
- Available in 10 languages
- Everything in Free
- Swift, SwiftUI, and Swift Color Literal
- UIColor, NSColor, and Objective-C
- .NET, Java, and Android formats
- Decimal precision for float formats
- WCAG AA/AAA contrast checker with auto-fix
- Support a small, independent developer
Why ColorCopy?
No subscription
Pay once for Pro, or stay on Free forever. No tiers that expire, no “your trial has ended” emails, no recurring costs.
100% local
No servers. No analytics. No accounts. No telemetry. We don’t know you installed it — and we’re fine with that.
10 languages
English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, and Russian.
Gets out of your way
No dock icon. No windows to manage. It sits in your menu bar, waits for a click, and goes back to being invisible.
What people are saying
“It’s a menu bar icon. You click it. You pick a color. That’s the whole pitch. Somehow I use it twenty times a day.”
“I pointed it at my boss’s Hawaiian shirt out of curiosity. Turns out he’s been wearing #FF6347 and #32CD32 together. I now have data to back up my concerns.”
“I used to eyeball colors and tell myself ‘close enough.’ My designer disagreed. ColorCopy saved my career and possibly my marriage.”
“No account, no subscription, no telemetry. I kept reading the website looking for the catch. There is no catch. I’m suspicious but grateful.”
The people are made up. The gray-on-white thing actually happened.
Questions you probably have
Is ColorCopy really free?
Yes. The free tier covers every web format a frontend developer needs: HEX, HEXA, CSS RGB/RGBA, CSS HSL/HSLA — plus the global hotkey, recent colors, copy sounds, and every customization setting.
ColorCopy Pro (a one-time purchase) adds the developer formats (Swift, SwiftUI, UIColor, NSColor, Obj-C, .NET, Java, Android) and the WCAG contrast checker. No subscriptions. No “your free trial has expired” emails.
Does ColorCopy send my colors anywhere?
No. Nothing leaves your Mac. ColorCopy uses Apple’s native NSColorSampler to pick pixels and writes the result directly to your clipboard. There is no server, no analytics, no telemetry, no user account. We can’t sell your data, because we don’t have it.
What color formats does it support?
Twenty of them. Web: HEX, HEXA, CSS RGB, CSS RGBA, CSS HSL, CSS HSLA. Apple platforms: NSColor RGB/HSB, UIColor RGB/HSB, SwiftUI Color RGB/HSB, Swift Color Literal. Objective-C: NSColor, UIColor. Cross-platform: .NET RGB/ARGB, Java RGB/RGBA, Android RGB/ARGB.
For float-based formats (Swift, SwiftUI, etc.) you can choose 2, 3, or 4 decimal places. For hex, you can toggle the # prefix and uppercase/lowercase.
How is this different from Digital Color Meter?
Digital Color Meter shows you a color inside its own little window and never copies it in a format any developer actually uses.
ColorCopy lives in your menu bar, copies straight to your clipboard in whichever format you pick, supports 20+ formats, remembers your last 8 picks, and ships with a WCAG contrast checker that can auto-fix failing combinations. Also, it doesn’t look like it’s from Mac OS X 10.5.
Do I need to grant any permissions?
macOS requires Screen Recording permission for any app that reads pixel colors from the screen — this is a system-level rule that Apple enforces on every color picker, not something ColorCopy chose.
The first time you pick a color, macOS will prompt you. ColorCopy never records video, takes screenshots, or reads anything except the single pixel you clicked.
Tell me more about the contrast checker.
It’s a Pro feature. Pick a background and a foreground color — from your screen, from your clipboard, or by typing a hex code — and ColorCopy shows the WCAG contrast ratio with AA/AAA pass/fail for both normal and large text.
If a combination fails, control-click a swatch and ColorCopy can auto-adjust that color to the exact ratio you need (4.5:1, 7:1, 3:1…) without changing the hue more than it has to.
Does this replace my design tool’s color picker?
It replaces the frantic workflow where you jump between Figma, DevTools, and Preview just to grab one color. Open ColorCopy, click anywhere on your screen, and the hex is on your clipboard.
Works whether the color is in a website, a native app, a Figma canvas, a YouTube thumbnail, or a screenshot someone just Slacked you.
Will there be an iOS version?
No. iOS doesn’t let apps read pixel colors from other apps, which is the entire premise of ColorCopy. macOS only.
Stop hunting for colors. Start shipping them.
Download ColorCopy and never type a hex code from memory again.