Chroma 1.1.1

Chroma 1.1.1

Fixes a battery drain. Chroma 1.1.0 could keep one CPU core busy the whole time it was running, even with nothing open, because the menu bar icon kept redrawing itself. Chroma now goes back to using no CPU when it's idle.

If Activity Monitor showed a high Energy Impact for Chroma, update to this version.

Chroma 1.1.0

A polish release: undo everywhere in the library, keyboard control, and clearer feedback.

Download Chroma.dmg, open it, and drag Chroma into Applications, replacing the old copy.

Library

• Undo and redo (⌘Z, ⇧⌘Z) for every edit: deleting colors and palettes, sorting, editing, renaming, Clear History. Colors you pick in the meantime are never lost.
• Deleting a palette no longer asks first, since ⌘Z brings it back
• A filter field: type a name, hex code or Tailwind name
• Arrow keys move the selection (⇧ extends it, ⌘A selects all) and Return copies
• In the sidebar, Return renames a palette and Delete removes it
• Select several colors to copy them together, make a palette from them, or check the contrast between two

Picker

• The loupe shows the color's name next to its value
• ⇧-click picking shows the colors picked so far
• The value label stays on screen near the left and right edges

Everywhere

• Every copy confirms with a small popup, including from the menu bar and right-click menus
• The contrast checker's color menu shows swatches and your palettes
• Hover effects on swatches, hairlines between palettes in the Color Dock, and a checkmark on Color › Color Dock
• VoiceOver reads each swatch's name and hex

Requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later. Universal (Apple silicon and Intel), signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

Chroma 1.0.0

The first release of Chroma, a free, open source color picker for macOS.

Download Chroma.dmg, open it, and drag Chroma into Applications. Then press ⌃⌥⌘P anywhere.

• A loupe picker on a frozen screen: arrow keys nudge one pixel, scroll zooms, ⇧-click keeps picking, Tab switches formats
• 35 formats (hex, CSS rgb/hsl/oklch/display-p3, Tailwind, SwiftUI, UIColor, NSColor, Compose, Flutter, Android XML…) plus custom templates
• Smart formats per app: SwiftUI in Xcode, Compose in Android Studio, or anything you choose
• History and palettes with drag and drop, notes, sorting, merging and locking
• A Color Dock at any screen edge: click to copy, drag into any app
• A contrast checker with WCAG 2 and APCA scores and one-click fixes
• Color blindness previews, an RGB/HSB/HSL/OKLCH editor, harmonies and 50–950 scales
• Import .ase, .clr, .gpl, Sketch palettes and JSON; export those plus CSS, SCSS, Tailwind v4, SwiftUI, Android XML and PNG
• Folder-based sync through iCloud Drive or Dropbox, Shortcuts actions and a chroma:// URL scheme

Requires macOS 26 Tahoe or later. Universal (Apple silicon and Intel), signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.