The complete guide to house painting apps for 2021

The days of limited color selection and little paper swatches of paint are basically over. While you can still get a fan deck of color samples from most paint companies, the move to picking colors from your desktop or phone is the new normal. It’s also not limited to just picking a single color, you also get the option, in some cases, of discovering an entire palette of colors that work well together.

Being able to see an entire house exterior or an interior room painted in a chosen color palette makes the decision process much easier, reduces do-overs, and prevents “color regret”  in the first place. With these apps, you are basically getting to see what your finished paint job will look like before the first coat is applied.

The ultimate in assistance is being able to upload and use a picture of your own home or individual room and seeing how that will look when repainted in the color of your choice.

To make it easier for you to find the right house painting app we are including a webpage link and also any links to app stores so that you can either visit the website or just go and grab an app for your phone.

In this list below we are breaking down all the great painting apps and websites out there in 2021 into three groups: paint maker’s color testers, general paint color testers, and apps that can isolate colors inside of pictures.

Paint manufacturer apps and websites

These links are from each of the paint companies in the US that offer them. Note that each of these services only showcases the paint colors made by that individual manufacturer.

Sherwin Williams – https://www.sherwin-williams.com/visualizer#/active/default

Benjamin Moore – https://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/color-overview/personal-color-viewer

Behr – https://www.behr.com/consumer/colorstudio#colortools

Glidden – https://www.glidden.com/color-tools/paint-color-visualizer

Valspar – https://www.valspar.com/en/colors/color-tools

Dunn-Edwards – https://www.dunnedwards.com/colors/instacolor

Pratt and Lambert – https://colorjourneysusa.renoworks.com

PPG Paints – https://www.visualizecolor.com/ppgpaints#/

McCormick Paints – https://mccormickpaints.chameleonpower.com

General house painting apps and websites

These combine all the possible colors from different paint makers or colors in general. These sites show a full range of colors from more than one paint manufacturer to give you an even greater selection.

CertaPro – https://certapro.com/paint-color-ideas/

PaintMyPlace – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paintmyplace.app

Prestige ColorPic – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.prestigepaints.prestigecolorpic&hl=en_US

Home Depot – Project Color – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thehomedepot.coloryourworld&hl=en_US

Lowes Color360 – https://lowes.paintvisualizer.com/#!/active/color-wall

Color capture apps

These provide ways to find colors in pictures and isolate them and/or create palettes from them. These apps are good for finding a color inside of a picture so that you can match the color of something like a painting or rug to a wall color.

Luminant Software – https://luminantsoftware.com/apps/paint-tester/

Color Grab (color detection) – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loomatix.colorgrab&hl=en_US&gl=US

For heavyweight professionals – NIX – https://www.nixsensor.com

A bonus for you

Once you have a color chosen you might want to find some complementary colors to go with it. If you have the color’s “hex code” you can enter it on these websites to find interesting colors to pair it with:

Canva – https://www.canva.com/colors/color-wheel/

Sessions College – https://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator/

Palleton – https://paletton.com/

If all of these tools leave you more confused than when you started please feel free to contact CertaPro Painters® of Rock Hill and schedule a free color consultation with one of our local experts. They will be familiar with local trends as well as have a complete understanding of how to pick colors for any home, including yours!