One price, one time, forever
HexPic is a small tool that does one thing exactly right, so it's priced like one. Buy it once and it's yours — every update, every Mac you own, no strings.
HexPic
USD · billed once · not a subscription
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It's one download either way. HexPic works fully, free, for 7 days — no account, no email, no card. When the trial's up, paste in a license key to keep going.
Download HexPicUniversal · 5.5 MB · macOS 14+ · 7-day free trial
Buying for a design team? Volume licences are available from 5 seats up, with a single invoice and one licence key for the whole team.
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Prices in US dollars. Local taxes may be added at checkout. Not happy? Email within 14 days and you'll get a full refund — no questions asked.
The maths
Color pickers have quietly become subscriptions. This one didn't.
Requirements
HexPic is built straight onto macOS screen-capture and color-management APIs. That's the only way to read a pixel in its true display color space — and it's why there is no Windows, iOS, or web version, and won't be.
Before you buy
You're taken straight to the download, and your licence key follows by email shortly after. Drop HexPic in your Applications folder, paste the key into Settings → License once, and you're done.
Yes, for now. HexPic isn't notarized by Apple yet (that's a paid Apple Developer Program step we haven't taken), so the first time you open it macOS shows a warning instead of opening it outright. It's not a sign anything's wrong — right-click (or Control-click) the app in Applications, choose Open, then confirm in the dialog that appears. You only need to do this once. If macOS doesn't offer an Open button, go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and look for HexPic near the bottom of the page.
Yes. One purchase covers every Mac you personally own — desktop, laptop, and the one in the cupboard. If you're buying for other people, that's what the volume licence is for.
Yes. Every update to HexPic is included in the one purchase. There's no upgrade fee and no "pro" tier waiting behind it.
Email within 14 days of purchase and you'll get the full $1.99 back, no questions asked. There's also a free trial, so ideally it never comes to that.
Not today — HexPic is sold direct, which is part of how it stays at $1.99. It's code-signed; full Developer ID notarization is on the way as the project grows.
Because it's a small app made by one person, and the price should reflect that. A picker that grabs one pixel shouldn't cost more than a coffee, and pretending otherwise is how good little tools end up unused.