Pick a color from anywhere on your Mac

Capture colors without interrupting your work

Press ⌥⌘P from anywhere on your Mac to activate the native macOS color picker. Select a pixel and its color is immediately copied to your clipboard in your preferred output format.

You don't need to switch applications or bring Suisai to the foreground. Keep working where you are, and sample more colors whenever something catches your eye.

The clipboard carries both a formatted color value and a color representation that compatible design applications can use directly. Paste into a code editor to insert the value, or into an application that accepts color data to use the color itself.

You can customize the shortcut, use the menu bar picker instead, or cancel a selection without changing your collected colors.

Capture colors in the format you need

Choose from forty-three individual color code formats, including HEX, CSS, Swift, Objective-C, Android, Java, .NET, and more.

Set your preferred format once, and every sampled color is automatically copied using that representation. There's no need to convert the value manually before using it in another application.

You can also retrieve any collected color in a different format using Copy As, without changing your usual settings.

For more control, Suisai lets you configure numerical precision, HEX capitalization, spacing, and other format-specific options.

No macOS privacy permissions required

Suisai uses the native macOS color picker to sample pixels from your screen. It doesn't require Screen Recording permission or any other persistent permissions granted through macOS Privacy & Security settings.

Your sampled colors stay on your Mac. Suisai doesn't record your screen, upload your colors, collect usage analytics, or require an account.

The direct-download version checks for updates through a separate sandboxed helper, without reporting your installed application version or sending information about the colors you've sampled. Version comparisons take place locally.

File operations, such as saving palettes or installing them into the macOS system color picker, may require confirmation from macOS when you choose where to save them. These are authorizations for specific file operations, not ongoing privacy permissions.

For the full details, see our privacy policy.

Collect colors as you work

Suisai stays accessible from your Mac's menu bar, displaying the last color you sampled in its icon. Open the menu to see your recent selections, each with its color value and suggested name.

Copy a color again, retrieve it in another format, or send individual colors into an open palette. You can also add your entire recent collection to a new or existing palette with a single command.

It's a convenient way to collect inspiration throughout the day without stopping to organize every color as soon as you find it.

Suisai suggests color names from a collection of 31,914 named shades, matched using OKLab. Once you've gathered your colors into a palette, you can rename individual swatches, arrange them however you like, and save the finished palette to your Library for future use.

Turn your collected colors into something more

A sampled color can become part of a new palette, the starting point for a harmony, or one end of a color ramp. You can also send colors to the Color Bench to compare them or experiment with spectral pigment mixing.

Collect colors from different applications throughout the day, bring them together into a palette, and return to them whenever you need them.

Suisai's tools are designed to work together, so capturing a color is just the beginning of what you can do with it.

Find a color. See where it takes you.

Once you've sampled a color, you can build palettes around it, explore related shades, or use its value directly in your design and development projects.

• Build and edit palettes →Create, name, and organize colors you've collected.
• Explore color harmonies →Discover complementary combinations, color ramps, and spectral mixes.
• Take your colors into code →Copy color values in your preferred format or export complete palettes.
• Check color contrast →Check a sampled color against another, graded to WCAG 2.2.
• Palettes from photographs →Want more than a single color from a photograph? Explore Suisai's photograph extraction tools.

Capture a color. Keep the inspiration.

Pick colors from anywhere on your Mac, copy them in the format you need, and collect them into editable palettes without interrupting your work.

Native macOS color sampling, forty-three color code formats, and a complete set of tools for creating and working with palettes.

No macOS privacy permissions required. No accounts or analytics. One purchase, no subscription.

If Suisai isn't right for you, a full refund is available within 30 days for direct purchases via Paddle. No reason needed.

macOS 14 or later · Universal · One-time purchase