Best Interior Painting Apps
While the color you paint your space plays a huge role in making it feel more homely and relaxing, choosing the right paint color is surprisingly one daunting task which can turn into hours of browsing through fan deck after another.
Fortunately, panting in this digital age, doesn't have to be so daunting and risky. It's a digital world now, and technology has amazingly made things a lot easier for people by Intercepting every sphere with creative innovations and affording us a lot of conveniences. There are now different waves of interior painting color apps that are making the task easier; allowing you to virtually compare samples, paint your wall, and even match a paint color to a photo. These apps make it possible to paint your home as you imagine it before buying jars of paint.
For an interior designer or anyone trying to pick a paint color for their home, there's nothing better than being able to visualize the outcome of your new painting project on your mobile phone. The flexibility this offers to explore creativity in color combination, and other interior design factors is a beautiful feature that we would come to appreciate for a long time.
Scanning through the many apps software developers are frantically throwing at our faces, we've listed some of the best fantastic interior design apps that can help you match colors and digitally paint your home. These applications are free, very much responsive on both Android and iOS phones, and can easily be downloaded from Google play store, and Apple store.
1. Benjamin Moore's Color Capture (Android & iOS)
This is one of the newest interior painting app released in 2018 from the stores of Benjamin Moore. Just like the name infers, Benjamin Moore's Color Capture allows you to capture the color of a particular object or image that catches your fancy —whether it's the color of that milky fluffy cake, or whatever. With over 3000+ color collection, you definitely would find a perfect combination for the project.
2. Project Color —The Home Depot (iOS, Android)
Project Color, usually called color inspiration explorer, is a basic color app that doesn't only provide painting ideas for your interior space but also exterior space. One of the characteristics of the application of The Home Depot is that you get inspired by the color according to the mood you want. It has three functionalities to see, combine, and find the color of the paint. When using the Smartphone or tablet, you can focus the camera towards the object and have a preview of how the color will look in real-life. If you are an interior designer, you may be interested to see how the color will look from different angles. With this app, it is possible and can also send pictures to your clients or family via email so you can listen to their opinions on your choice of color.
3. Sherwin Willams' ColorSnap (Android & iOS)
Sherwin-Williams Colorsnap—a wonderful app that was updated just last month— is an app that allows you to paint colors in augmented reality. Sherwin-Williams Colorsnap is one of the oldest yet fascinating apps that has remained a favorite since its launch in 2011. With over 1000+ color collection curated by Sherwin, you can easily compare colors, and match colors from the palette. One outstanding feature about this app is the amazing superpower to scan a wall, plant, or image, and detect the exact color shade on it. The app is further designed to automatically display an array of complementary colors, hues, and gradient—very helpful for color combination. Looking to paint like a pro or make confident color decisions digitally? Then you can start with Sherwin-Williams' Colorsnap.
4. BEHR's ColorSmart (iOS, Android)
BEHR's Colorsmart is queuing next to Colorsnap as one of the oldest interior painting app released since 2011 and was recently updated as well. It has over 2500 paint colors you can seamlessly sift through to select which to paint your wall. If you like a particular color you can take a picture of it and the application will choose the closest possible color. Although it is a good alternative, remember the best color ally is both natural and artificial lighting. So consider these interior design requirements. ColorSmart also allows you to share the choice of your favorite colors as projects on social networks.
5. Homestyler (iOS & Android): Painting and Decor
Homestyler is another fantastic app that goes beyond just painting. It was designed to also give a visual insight into remodeling and renovation generally. If you want to know how your house would look with specific furniture and decorative objects, this app can help you. Homestyle adds to your home the furniture, paintings, rugs, or mirrors you want, digitally, so you can see what they would look like before buying them. Basically, this application allows you to design the decoration of the interior of your house virtually, and with a high degree of realism. Besides, it has a large community of users to share your designs and be inspired by other people's designs.
6. Paint Tester (iOS & Android)
For rookies in interior design and painting, the Paint Tester app is a good place to start. The app interface is easy to navigate, match colors quickly, and execute projects. One exciting feature about this app is how it directs you to purchase the exact color paint after choosing from the tool option.
You can get the pro version of the Paint Tester app which allows you to carry on your project without annoying ads popping up severally. The pro version also unlocks access to a much better color scheme for sampling and combination.
7. Color Harmony (Android & iOS)
Color Harmony app works exactly like other amazing apps too. The app scans and detects the color paint on the wall, and automatically suggests varieties of matching or complementary colors for combination. You can comfortably create your color palette from a photo, translate colors to RAL format, and even save as favorite. The Color harmony application is highly user friendly, with over five different languages.