Undertone - Color Analysis

You can see which colors work. You just can't explain why.

Undertone closes that gap. Point your camera at any scene or import a photo from your library. In seconds, the app breaks down the color structure underneath: the relationships that make an image feel right. All processing happens on your device. Your images never leave your phone.

What you get with every analysis:

Palette with proportions. Not flat swatches. Dominant colors shown by actual weight. A 60% warm neutral with a 5% cool accent is a different palette than 50/50. Every color labeled with hex codes and painter-friendly names. Cadmium Yellow, not "Autumn Sunset Dream."

Color harmony. The relationship between your colors identified and named: complementary, analogous, triadic, split-complementary, tetradic, square, monochromatic, or honestly, none. Not every image has a clean harmony, and Undertone won't pretend. Colors plotted on a wheel so you can see the geometry.

Temperature map. A warm-cool overlay on your image that makes the invisible visible. Muddy shadows? Probably a temperature problem, warm paint leaking into your cools. Golden hour magic? Warm light forces cool shadows by contrast. Toggle the map on, and the thing you couldn't diagnose becomes obvious.

Value structure. Your image stripped to grayscale, divided into clear zones: light, mid-tone, dark. Value does more work than color. A painting with strong values and wrong colors still reads. This automates the painter's squint.

Built for people who work with color:

Painters studying a master painting at the museum, analyzing a reference before mixing, or diagnosing why the shadows look muddy.

Photographers translating a mood board into concrete editing decisions, or understanding why golden hour works so they can repeat it.

Designers extracting palettes from real-world references and showing clients why a color scheme works. With evidence, not "trust me."

Art students crossing the gap between intuition and understanding. Every analysis is a micro-lesson in color theory.

Every analysis is saved automatically. Your phone becomes a personal color reference library you can scroll anytime.

Free: Unlimited analyses with Original, Temperature, and Values modes. 30-image history.

Premium: Composition (10 guide types), Saturation mapping, Contrast focal analysis, unlimited history, full-resolution export. $19.99, one-time purc