2020-08-07
Won’t load
The app says “hmm, this is taking a bit longer than expected” and just sits on this screen forever. I have only seen this screen since I downloaded it, so I have nothing to review other than it doesn't work.
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Description
Capture your world in PANTONE Color, build and create palettes to test on 3D-rendered materials & designs, and share PANTONE Colors with your Creative Cloud® account, clients, and social networks.
Subscribers get access to all PANTONE Colors (more than 10,000 standardized hues across all libraries and disciplines), and receive a 1-week or 1-month free trial with a monthly or annual subscription.
All tools, features, and content are free with a selection of available PANTONE Colors. Those who previously purchased the myPANTONE app get full access without subscription.
TOOLS & FEATURES
Color Values/References
- sRGB
- Hex
- CMYK
- Harmonies (complementary, monochromatic, analogous, split complementary, triadic)
- Cross Reference visually across all Pantone color guides and color systems
Color Palettes
- Build color palettes consisting of up to five colors by selecting from color guides
- Take a photo and use our color picker to build a custom palette
- Extract colors from images on your phone or Pinterest, Facebook, Tumblr, and Instagram accounts
- All palettes can be sent to Adobe® Creative Cloud®
Color Studio
- Apply colors against different designs including graphics, interiors, and typography.
- Visualize PANTONE Colors on pliable 3D papers and fabrics.
Crowdsourcing Inspiration
Studio features external sources of content to pull in the inspiring, colorful work of others. Users can scroll through artists’ designs and images organized by PANTONE Color and select their palettes for use.
Trends from the Pantone Color Institute™ (PCI)
Receive insights from PCI through a convenient feed of content rich in color insight and imagery. Content includes articles focused on the emotions, meanings, psychology and context behind particular colors. This also includes curated trend palettes to use in your next design project.
Subscribe
Bring full color to Studio with one of these subscription options:
Monthly – $4.99/month with 1-week free trial
Annual – $29.99/year with 1-month free trial
myPANTONE Customers- Full access without subscription to colors and values previously available in myPANTONE
Questions? Contact us at Support@Pantone.com
– Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase
– The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period
– Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period
– Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase
– Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable
For a link to our terms of use and privacy policy, visit: https://www.pantone.com/help/?t=Pantone-Studio-Mobile-app-Privacy-Statement
What's New in Version 3.0.24
Fashion and product designers rejoice! 315 new Fashion, Home + Interiors colors are launched for the TCX and TPG libraries. We’ve also fixed a number of bugs and rewired parts of the back end.
Seller
Name
X-Rite, Incorporated
Information
Developer
Categories
Version
3.0.24
Size
106.1 MB
Game Center
No
VPP Device Licensing
Yes
Rating
Rated: 4+
Compatibility
iOS 13.0 or later
Devices
iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)
Languages
English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish
App Store: Customer Ratings
Ratings & Reviews
3.0 of 5 (91 Ratings)
App Store: Customer Reviews
2020-06-15
Please fix
It seems like it would be a good app but it just never opens, it just says “this is taking a bit longer than expected”.
It doesn’t kick me out of the app, but it just never loads.
2020-05-27
Indispensable !
Je n’utilise plus de charte papier ! Et envoyé un échantillon par la fonction partage est géniale …
2020-05-25
Great App for Artists
I am using the free version of the app for now and it is fantastic! I am mainly using the images feature to load my artwork and produce a color palette in order to create products based on my art! Great tool.
2020-04-29
Doesn’t pick colours accurately
I don’t find this app user friendly at all. When uploading a photo from my camera roll, it doesn’t accurately pick colours. The shade palette is limited and I can’t hover over the exact shade I want it to read.
2020-03-30
Perfect
The app is perfect if you want to find a digital colour
2020-03-19
How does this work?
I’ve never given a bad review to any app but I simply cannot figure out how to work this app. I want to enter a PMS# and build a colour palette from it. I couldn’t even locate the Pantone colour no matter how I entered it. Perhaps the paid version is significantly better but I’m not willing to pay and find out that it’s not. Disappointing.
2020-02-07
Free version does not work, impossible to try for free
No clue of the paid version but this does not work.
Was hoping for the best even with all the bad reviews however...
wasted five minutes trying to get it to work, wasting another 30 seconds here to warn you 😂
2020-01-23
Pantone studio app
Very user friendly and easy to use, just download the Pantone studio app and take a picture and it shows all possible colors with cross reference to tcx, fhi nylon, fhi polyester tsx, pastels and neons coated and uncoated, it also easily upload to cloud, photoshop or add to current or new palette. Highly Recommand for fashion designer or graphic designer to try it out.
2019-09-23
Best Color Reference App
Easily the best color reference app out there... It should be as Pantone has a reputation it should be living up to. But keep the app improving, I’d love to see more and more people loving the app.
2019-09-03
Won’t load
Used to be ok but won’t even load any more.
2019-07-17
Useless
My photos won’t load, and no it’s not my internet connection.
2019-07-13
pantone.
it take FOREVER! to load my images.
2019-05-07
Incompatible with iPad
When I open it on my iPad, it shows up as the phone resolution.....so I have a huge black border and a phone layout in the middle lol?
2019-04-29
Can’t unsubscribe
This was cool to try, but I’m not using it and finding it quite to find somewhere to unsubscribe!
2019-04-26
The colors LOVER
I would like to see back the Parallax effect for the colors, it was and is still important for me and lots of my colleagues who are asking me to tell you that. Please bring it back additionally to what we already have but as an option to choose in between.
New colors, new technologies, new inspirations.
What would you need more !
2019-02-08
Calm down
So many reviewers are caught up because the colours don’t match what’s in a press room. Should you ever expect a screen to match ink and paper? Look at this app as a compliment to your workflows and existing swatch books (both digital in apps, and fan books).
This is a great reference: it saves me time looking up references colour values and building palettes. I don’t have to lug my swatches around or pull up swatches in my apps...
Can the colours be tweaked to give a closer match? Yes. Does this save me time? Yes. Would I risk a print job using this app? No. Do I feel good paying for this app? Yes.
2019-02-06
Easier to use before subscription pricing
Pretty well useless now. Don't do it unless you want to spend money and not get reasonable colour codes.
2019-01-25
great for editors
an app all editors should have
2018-11-05
Please fix it. Can’t open the app and crashed every time,
Keep loading for a long time then crash.
Xs Max Nov.5 2018
2018-08-06
App crashes
App crashes!
2017-04-11
Interface Poorly Designed
This is incredibly frustrating. Designed by some ADD nitwit with understanding of intuitive interface design.
Don't waste your time, buy a swatch book!
2017-02-21
Crashing
I love this app! The only problem is it will crash and then you can't open it again.
2016-12-22
Not Bad
Miss the colour swatch book interface.
Wish the app was calibrated for the screen, they all seem out by quite a bit.
2016-12-17
Baaad update
Since update. No more swatch book browsing !!
Very disappointed !!!
2016-12-06
Importer
Bought the app years ago for one simple function- Pantone colors with numbers. It is handy to show customers what color we offer. The app removed this basic function after updating. I understand the app need to be improved; however, removing the function which customers paid for is not improving! it is deceitful!
2016-11-21
Deleting features and putting them behind a paywall!
So I happily bought this app 7 years ago as it was a wonderful way to get and show Pantone colors to customers while out in the field. Then they updated it to a new version which took away all of the colors so now the app I bought and paid for wants me to subscribe for a monthly reductions fee to show my customers "kinda sorta close" equivalents of the colors they are looking for. WTF? Seriously...let me redownload the previous version at least! Such a scam!!!
2016-09-07
A company that robs us
:(
2016-08-28
Unbelievable Crooks
Pantone continues set the gold standard for ripping off its customers. I bought this premium app years ago for $10. I never would have bought it if I knew I was just renting the app and that Pantone would steal my money and then have the nerve to ask me for more. Replace your swatch books every year!! Buy these new colours that for some reason aren't included with our system!! We should all say enough and start using Open Colour Standard. Shame on you charlatans! I want my money back!
2016-08-22
Epic Fail
I thought the new chromatic books were bad. Now you go and take the app THAT I PAID FOR and give it an "upgrade".
1. I did not ask for this "upgrade" I'd like my old app back
2. You can stick your monthly subscription fee in your pipe and smoke it. Clearly you're smoking something...
3. This app has gone from a great, easy to use tool to a waste of memory.
Let me know when you really upgrade something. That means MAKE AN IMPROVEMENT! Not rip off customers who have already paid.
2016-08-14
Non respect !!
J'ai payer environ 25$ il y a deux ou trois ans et on me bloque l'application. Même si n'importe mes chartes et mes ancien achat, on me dit que je dois m'a bonnet pour importer les chartes et je dois payer 10.99$ par mois additionnel à ce que j'avais déjà payer pour une application fonctionnelle... Un gros ZÉRO pour cette rétrogradation pour Pantone X-Rite....
2016-08-12
DO NOT TRUST THIS COMPANY
Pantone has defrauded its customers buy its latest "Upgrade" (it is actualy a downgrade) of this software. With the previous version of the software I was able to use all the libraries that I had paid for all the time and on top of that I was albe to share this app with all members of my family. After this "Upgrade" I lost access to all the features that I had paid for and Pantone initialy asked its customer to pay a monthly subscription fee to get access to what they had already paid for, later on when everybody started to scream at them they returned some of that functionality back. The interfact has degraded by a lot. I dentification of the colors has become hugely more difficult, and family app sharing is completely gone. DO NOT LET PANTONE TO RIP YOU OFF
2016-08-11
Great program, great service.
The new Pantone app is great! They've honoured our original purchase of the application, the new version of the program works perfect.
2016-08-10
Awful update
You just trashed all my photo based colour palette and then put up a paywall for me to start over from scratch. Plus the entire UI is clunky and unintuitive. Great job. Won't be using this app anymore.
2016-08-06
Not right!
Let me understand, I paid 13$ last week for an app that was perfect for my need and now you change it for a monthly fee?!? Where can I be reimbursed?
2016-08-05
Give me the App I paid for !
I paid $10 for the old app, which was pricey , but great. However the new version is a garbage. It deleted all the palettes I created and do half the things it used to do. No longer allows you to extract colors from pictures unless you snap the photo at that moment. Plus wants you to pay a bunch of money as a subscription. WTF?? How can I un-upgrade ????
2016-08-05
Complaint re: latest version. I have already paid for this...
And now I've lost all my saved palettes and you want me to pay for it again? Sorry, no chance!
2016-08-04
Do Not Upgrade to this version
I used to have an app that did what it was supposed to do. And left me with this stool sample. You took away all the colors and now want me to pay you $8 a month to look at your colors? This is pure fraud. I paid for an app that now you have crippled. This is not what I bought. Boycott this app.
2016-08-04
It's a money pit, stay away!
I used to use this app to reference Pantone's most current definition for its colours in the Lab colour space. Their values were usually different than those in third party apps like Illustrator or InDesign. By using Pantone's own reference I knew I was targeting the most authoritative source. Now they don't display Lab values anymore nor do they allow access to the full colour deck without paying for a subscription. You may wonder why not just use cmyk or rgb references? Because those are both affected by colour management protocols. Defining your spot colours with Lab values bypasses the RIPs colour management for better and predictable reproduction.
The app is totally useless to me now. This version deserves a zero star rating. The latest update didn't make it better. It's still a useless money pit.
There is hope, if you backed up your apps with iTunes you can delete the new version and restore the old one. It worked for me.
2016-08-03
Ripped off!
What the ever lovin heck is this quagmire? I want my old Pantone sets back! The ones I paid for! You just shot yourself in the face with this update. I used to love your product and would of paid $20/ year for a subscription, but you just screwed over a huge customer base in the screen print industry.
2016-08-03
I feel robbed!?!
I had paid for the previous app, which worked fine. I've had this app for many years. I decided to pay for the in-app purchase for the remaining colour books, only to find I have paid for nothing!
I want the old app back!
I rate this no stars!!!
2016-08-03
Paid for original app
I paid for the app closer to when it was released now they've taken ALL the features of the original app away from those who paid for it and want you to pay a monthly subscription I am no longer receiving what I paid for!! Don't bother buying the app it's useless now and I want my money back. Don't update if you can help it!
2016-08-03
Lost everything!!!!
With the new upgrade, did I just lost everything?! No more access to my charts. Need to subscribe?! Very disappointed. I feel like I've been robbed. It's a rip off.
2016-08-02
Paid $9.99 originally now it's worthless
They took all the premium features away - that I paid $9.99 for originally - and now it's a fremium app with subscriptions.
2016-08-02
Where is my previously purchased colour sets?
Where is my previously purchased colours sets? What is going on? So they all gone? And I have pay for annually or monthly to get my colours?
2016-08-02
10$/month to use it?? Terrible idea...
The new interface is great, modern and easy to use. But to charge us 10$/month to get access to all colors? Wrong. There is a basic version where you get access to maybe 5 or 10% of the first color chips of each book, which means it is completely USELESS. If I was asked a one time payment of 5 or 10$, yeah why not. It's useful but when you have the physical books around why pay monthly for something you just have to get up and use for free ? Terrible marketing idea. Are you in need of cash flow Pantone ? Do you really need to anger your devoted users like that?
2014-06-21
No ink ratios
This app great if it include ink mixing ratios.
2014-01-25
Buyer's remorse
I only bought this because Pantone is phasing out their X-Ref app, which I liked a lot. I hoped for roughly 10x the cost it would be as useful, but I don't think it is. You can no longer (for instance) type in HEX values and get the nearest Pantone colour. A real drag. I don't think I'd have spent the money if I'd known that.
2013-09-05
Mostly Pointless
You can research a lot about colour and organize a palate, but then you can't do anything with it. If you email it, you get a bunch of files that can be downloaded to Evernote or Dropbox, but then those apps can't read them and you just get a bunch of code. If you copy the email and open it in a draw app, it only pastes the words, not the colours, which doesn't do much good. So it's nice to be able to browse the colours and find the pantone codes, but there's no real point to the app if you can't apply the information to anything.