16 iPhone apps for Web Designers

Some months back we mentioned about 51 Free iPhone 3G / 3GS Applications, now today here we compiled the collection of the most useful 16 iPhone apps for Web designers that I’ve come across. These iPhone apps help you create color schemes as well as convert RGB, CMYK, HSL, and hex to other color formats. There are even apps that will tell you the color schemes that go best with photos on your iPhone. Here are some of the best iPhone App for Web Designers

1. ColorRef

ColorRef is an app that allows you to compare colors in a scheme by adding them into your palette and then reviewing them. It does automatic conversion of your colors in hex, RGB or CoreGraphics format. You can only input your colors via RGB, so if you don’t already know the RGB numbers this could be difficult. Also, I found the sliders unresponsive at times, which made me overshoot on my color values. This got frustrating.

2. Palettes Lite

Palettes Lite is the free version of the paid app Palettes (see below). In Palettes you can create a color scheme by choosing a color from a color wheel, sliders, or inputting the color code or get colors from a photo. Then you can ask Palettes to suggest a color scheme based on analogous and complementary colors on the color wheel. You can also blend colors together to form a different palette.

Palettes connects with Color Lovers online to allow you to browse the palettes there. You can import ones you like into Palettes and then fiddle with them with the blending and mixing tools. Palettes Lite is free and has some limitations including: only 3 palettes can be saved, with only 5 colors in the palette. Plus other limitations.

3. Ruler Plus

RulerPlus is a simple application for your iPhone / iPhone 3G / iPod Touch, providing you with a simple 7 cm / 2 inch ruler. Ruler+ let’s you take measurements quickly and easily. Ruler+ also allows you to extend the ruler. Simply move your iPhone to the right and press ‘+’ to create the extended ruler.

4. CSS CheatSheet

CSS Cheat Sheet for the iPhone is designed to address that need. Use it as a quick reference for topics you’ve already learned but need a few reminders on, or if you’re still a beginner to CSS, use it to better understand what CSS has to offer. CSS Cheat Sheet categorically includes descriptions, values and examples for backgrounds, borders, classifications, dimensions, fonts, lists, margins, media types, outlines, padding, positioning, units, colors, tables, text, selector types, pseudo-classes, pseudo-elements and selector patterns.

5. HTML Colors

HTML Colors allows you to preview how your color schemes will look as text and background colors on a Web page. This is very useful to Web designers as having color swatches is nice, but seeing what those colors will look like in a Web type environment is even more helpful. You can even click on the “Random” button to get a random color combination. This is a free app and is really nice at that price. I would love to see a few additions like:

* More colors in the sample, such as a 3- or 5-color swatch
* The ability to save more than one scheme (you can have it remember your last choice)
* Suggested colors, you choose a background color and it recommends text colors to go with it

6. Colors Guide

Colors Guide is a RGB and Hex color code reference. It only runs on second generation iPhones and iPods.

7. Color Picker

Color Picker is a simple Hex or RGB color display program. You input the RGB (via a slider) or Hex code (via a drop-down) and it will show you what that color looks like. If you need a conversion tool from Hex to RGB or you just like to play with colors this might be a useful tool for only $0.99. But there are other tools that are the same price or free that do the same thing or better. This app costs $0.99.

8. ColorTool

ColorTool is another color picker that will show you one color from a slider of either RGB or HSL. This app costs $0.99.

9. ColorSutra

ColorSutra allows you to input a color via the color wheel or sliders and then it provides a suggested palette of colors that “match”. You can also input a photo from the camera (or photos on an iPod) and pick a color from the photo. This app costs $1.99.

10. Hex-O-Matic

Hex-O-Matic provides a reference for the Hex, RGB, and CMYK codes for Pantone color swatches. It is easy to scroll through the swatches and see the different colors. But there is no search function, so if you’re looking for a specific Pantone color, you need to scroll a lot until you find it. There is also no option to email yourself the codes. This app costs $0.99.

11. cliqcliq Colors

cliqcliq Colors is a app that helps you create a color palette of up to 12 colors. You input your color as a slider that toggles as either RGB or Hex. Then you drag it down to the color palette box. Once you have a palette you like you can save it. You can also create colors based on HSL (HSB), CMYK, or even grayscale. This app costs $2.99.

12. Color Expert

Color Expert is an interactive color wheel. You input your colors from Pantone swatches, photos, or sliders. Then you use the color wheel to show you analogous, complementary, and other color schemes. You can email your swatches to you as Adobe color files, see the hex values for your colors, and even lock a color on your palette (even if it doesn’t match the chosen scheme). This app costs $9.99.

13. ColorMatch

ColorMatch takes a color that you’ve input either through the RGB sliders or through a picture and will show you five complementary colors. Then you can label and save your palettes or email them. This app costs $2.99.

14. PixelPipe

PixelPipe enabled you to share a load of photos through your iPhone to over 50 supported sites such as Twitter, Flickr, MySpace, YouTube, Tumblr, WordPress, and FTP sites. The way this works is once you find a picture on your iPhone or on a site, you can then simply upload them to the sites mentioned above (and more) in an instant.

15. CameraBag

CameraBag allows users of the iPhone camera to simulate a number of different camera styles. For example, current effects include a fisheye lens effect, ‘infrared’, ‘cinema’ – a wide screen stills effect and effects that simulate old style cameras.

16. WhatTheFont

WhatTheFont for iPhone connects directly to MyFonts’ acclaimed font identification service, which has been helping customers pinpoint mystery fonts for 10 years. It works via Wi-Fi or the mobile phone network, so you can get your font fix right there on the spot.