One pixel, exactly
No averaging, no smoothing — the exact pixel you see is the one you get.
A single-pixel color picker for macOS
Pick a color.
Any color.
HexPic grabs one pixel from anywhere on your screen and hands you its true Display P3 value — not a flattened sRGB guess. Then copies it in whatever format you actually work in.
The app
Small enough to forget.
Sharp enough to trust.
HexPic lives in your menu bar. Hit the hotkey, a magnified loupe appears and follows your cursor — live, over whatever's on screen. Click once. The color is on your clipboard before the loupe closes.
HexPic
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Menu bar native.
No dock icon, no window to manage.
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Global hotkey.
⌃⌥⌘P by default, yours to remap, from any app.
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Zoom to the pixel.
Adjustable loupe with a true pixel grid.
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One format, your choice.
HEX, RGB, HSL, HSB, P3, SwiftUI, NSColor, or CSS — pick a default in Settings and every copy uses it.
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Thirty-second setup.
A short guide walks through Screen Recording access and your shortcut. Launch at login is one toggle.
Features
Everything it does.
Nothing it doesn't.
HexPic does one job. The whole app is built around making that one job feel instant, exact, and slightly delightful.
True Display P3
Reads your screen's native wide-gamut color — never flattened to sRGB.
Copies the way you code
HEX, RGB, HSL, HSB, P3, SwiftUI, NSColor, or CSS — pick a default, one click forever.
Lives in the menu bar
No dock icon, no window to hunt for — one hotkey, from anywhere.
Remembers what you picked
Your last 10–100 picks, one click away. Never leaves your Mac.
5 MB and native
Swift and SwiftUI. No Electron, no daemons, no telemetry.
Color Boards for palettes you keep
Save the colors you keep coming back to, in named palettes.
Named, not numbered
Every pick gets a plain-language name, like "Cornflower Blue."
Made to match you
Theme, loupe size, zoom, menu bar tint — all yours to set.
Formats
One color.
Every syntax.
Designers want hex. CSS wants P3. Swift wants a Color. HexPic keeps all of
them one click away, and remembers which one you reach for.
Try it — the value below is the color you picked in the hero.
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Why P3
Your display shows more color
than your color picker admits.
Every Mac made in the last decade has a Display P3 panel — around 25% more visible color than sRGB, mostly in the reds, oranges and greens. If your picker reports sRGB, every one of those colors comes back wrong, and quietly.
+25%
more visible color than sRGB
1 px
sampled — never blended or averaged
0
bytes of your data leave your Mac
HexPic reads the pixel through the display's own color profile and reports the true wide-gamut P3 value — not a flattened, silently-clamped sRGB guess.
Pricing
Buy it once.
$
1.99
USD · one time
- Unlimited picks, forever
- All formats, all export options
- Free updates
- No subscription, no account, no tracking
macOS 14 or later · One purchase covers all your Macs
FAQ
Questions, answered
Is HexPic Mac only?
Yes — macOS only, and that's deliberate. HexPic is built directly on macOS screen-capture and color-management APIs so it can read a pixel in its true display color space. There's no iOS, Windows, or web version, and none is planned.
What does it need to run?
macOS 14 Sonoma or later, on Apple silicon or Intel, shipped as a universal binary. On first launch macOS will ask for Screen Recording permission — that's the system permission required to read pixels from the screen, and it's the only one HexPic asks for.
Why does it need Screen Recording permission?
Reading the color of a pixel means reading the screen, and macOS gates that behind Screen Recording. HexPic only samples the pixels under your cursor while the picker is open. Nothing is recorded, stored, or sent anywhere.
Is $1.99 really it?
That's it. One payment, no subscription, no upsell, no pro tier. Updates are free. It's a small, focused tool and it's priced like one.
Does it work across multiple displays?
Yes. The picker spans every display at once — move your cursor onto another monitor mid-pick and HexPic reads that display's own color profile, so a color picked on your external monitor reports that monitor's values, not your built-in screen's.
Does it collect any data?
None. No analytics, no crash reporting SDK, no account. Your color history lives in a local file on your Mac and never leaves it.