Color Picker

What the app finds and shows

How to pick a colour from the screen in 3 steps

1. Open the app — the swatch and HEX/RGB/HSL values follow the cursor live.
2. Point at the colour you need and press Space — or left-click anywhere on the screen.
3. The colour is on your clipboard instantly and joins the history wall; click any swatch to copy it again.

Windows has no built-in screen eyedropper

For a task this common, Windows offers almost nothing: Paint's colour picker works only inside Paint, the Settings' accent-colour chooser only inside Settings. The closest official option is PowerToys' Color Picker — which means installing the whole PowerToys suite for one utility. Color Picker is that one utility, standalone: a small window that shows the pixel under your cursor live and puts the value on your clipboard with one press. For designers matching a brand colour on a client's site, developers pulling a colour out of a mockup, or anyone building a palette from a photo on screen, it removes the screenshot-compare-guess loop entirely.

Live preview, click anywhere, history that works

Three details make the workflow fast. First, the preview is live: the swatch, HEX, RGB and HSL all track the cursor, so you see the value before you commit. Second, picking works globally: left-click anywhere — over the browser, your editor, a video — and the pixel is captured without bringing the window forward, while Space does the same when the app is focused. Third, every pick auto-copies to the clipboard and stacks in the history wall: newest first, duplicates moved to front, up to 24 shades, clearable with one button. That is exactly how you build a palette: pick, pick, pick, then copy the whole wall's values one by one — or keep it as your session's colour record.

One pixel, read locally

The app does not take screenshots and does not stream anything: it asks Windows for the colour of the single pixel under the cursor (a GDI GetPixel call), a dozen times a second, and shows it. There is no screenshot history to leak, no cloud sync, no account, no telemetry — the whole app works offline. A Keep-on-top switch keeps it visible above your design tool, and a note on accuracy: the value read is the exact pixel on screen, which is what CSS and palettes expect — professional colour management (display profiles) can make that pixel differ slightly from the file's stored value, and that difference exists for every screen tool.

Features

• Live swatch of the pixel under the cursor
• HEX, RGB and HSL values at a glance
• Pick with Space or a global left-click anywhere
• Every pick lands on the clipboard automatically
• History wall: 24 swatches, click to copy, clearable
• Keep-on-top switch for design tools and browsers
• Reads exactly one pixel — no screenshots taken
• Works fully offline; no accounts, no telemetry
• Copy button for the current colour
• History is remembered between runs
• Dark and light themes
• 16 interface languages, no ads

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