Test colors before touching a single wall
Photograph your room as it is today — even if the walls are an old color you're replacing. The app lets you select individual wall surfaces and apply new colors to them digitally, so you can see how your chosen shade will look in your specific room geometry, under your specific lighting, surrounded by your actual furniture and flooring.
This is more accurate than any paint store visualizer because it uses a photo of your real room rather than a generic room template.
Coordinate wall color with existing finishes
Remodels often involve keeping some existing elements — flooring, cabinets, countertops, trim — while changing others. Upload a photo that includes these elements and test different wall colors against them to ensure the new paint harmonizes with what's staying.
Use the color identifier to sample your existing flooring or cabinetry and find complementary or contrasting paint colors that work with those tones. The app's color harmony tools suggest analogous, complementary, and triadic color options based on any starting color.
Build a complete color plan before the crew arrives
Create a room-by-room color plan by photographing each space and saving your preferred color for each room. Export the full color list with brand names and product codes and hand it directly to your painter — no ambiguity, no back-and-forth at the paint store.
This pre-planning step typically eliminates the need for paint samples and test patches, saving time on a job site where time costs money.
Avoid the most common remodeling color mistake
The most common remodeling color mistake is choosing a color from a chip under store lighting that looks completely different once it's on a full wall in your home. Natural light, artificial light, room size, and the surrounding colors all shift how a paint color reads.
By testing in a photo of your actual room, you see the color in your actual lighting environment before a single drop of paint is applied — which is the only reliable way to avoid a costly repaint.
Plan Your Remodel Colors with Confidence
Download Paint Color Match & Preview free on iOS and see your new colors before the first brush stroke.
Download on the App Store — Free