Pastel Downloads & RevenuePastel · App Store
Pastel is #125 in Developer Tools Free in United Kingdom and charting in 2 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperSteven Troughton-Smith
CategoryDeveloper Tools
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.7 (1.4k)
Version2.7
Age rating4+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
✏️New iPad screenshots✏️New screenshots📈Charting in a new country⭐Passed 1K ratings📈Charting in a new country📦Updated to version 2.7⭐Passed 1K ratings📦Updated to version 2.6.2🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 31 events
- ✏️Pastel: new iPad screenshots· CA
- ✏️Pastel: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 9) · CA
- 📈Pastel charting in a new countryFrance
- ✏️Pastel: new iPad screenshots· US
- ✏️Pastel: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 9) · US
- ✏️Pastel: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 9) · IN
- 📈Pastel charting in a new countryIndonesia
- ✏️Pastel: new iPad screenshots· DE
- ✏️Pastel: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 9) · DE
- 📈Pastel entered the top 100Top Grossing · Developer Tools · DE
- ✏️Pastel: new iPad screenshots· AU
- ✏️Pastel: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 9) · AU
- ✏️Pastel: new iPad screenshots· GB
- ✏️Pastel: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 9) · GB
- ✏️Pastel: new screenshots9 screenshots (was 9) · IT, JP
- 📈Pastel entered the top 100Top Free · Developer Tools · IT
- ✏️Pastel: new iPad screenshots· JP
- 📦Pastel updated to version 2.7• Now supports iPhone Duo
• A new library sync architecture to improve the iCloud sync experience - 📈Pastel charting in a new countryUnited Arab Emirates
- 📈Pastel charting in a new countryGermany
- 📈Pastel entered the top 100Top Free · Developer Tools · GB
- 📈Pastel charting in a new countrySaudi Arabia
- 📦Pastel updated to version 2.6.2• Behind the scenes improvements to the restore purchase flow
- 🆕Pastel first spotted by AppInsider#71 in Top Grossing · Developer Tools · Canada
- 📦Pastel version 2.6.1• Improved experience on iOS 27
- 🆕Pastel released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.7 ★
1.4k ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#125
Developer Tools FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
2
▲ +50% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
Pastel on the App Store
App details
App ID
413897608
Publisher
Steven Troughton-Smith
On the store since
Jun 2020
6 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 18.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
2
EN JA
Size
12 MB
Also listed in
Graphics & Design
Pastel downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where Pastel's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Developer ToolsFree | #125 |
 Germany | Developer ToolsFree | #187 |
Apps near Pastel on the chart
Developer Tools Free, around #125.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.7 ★
1.4k ratings
Measured
Ratings
1.4k
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
2
▲ +50% vs the 2 weeks before
Lifetime rating
4.7★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
79/100
faster than 86% of Developer Tools apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About Pastel
Capture and collect color palettes with Pastel!
Pastel is an app for amateur developers & artists (like us!) that lets you build up a library of color palettes to use in your projects.
With drag & drop on iPad, drag colors out into other apps that support dropped colors, like Pages and Keynote, or many third-party apps from your favorite developers, so you can use your Pastel library as your master color collection across apps.
Seamlessly sync your library across devices with iCloud.
Analyze photos from the photo library or from Files to determine their dominant colors — choosing specific colors manually if you wish — and save their color palettes to Pastel.
Includes a variety of color pickers, like wheel, RGB sliders, and crayons, or pick named colors from your color library that you curate yourself. On iPad, drag and drop from the sidebar to any palette.
Copy a variety of developer-focused code representations, like RGB, hex, Objective-C, Swift and SwiftUI. Paste hex codes into the sliders color picker.
Copy a pixel bitmap representation of a palette to paste into your favorite pixel editor, share a screen-sized version to set as your wallpaper or Apple Watch face, or export a palette to Procreate®.
Create beautiful, colorful wallpapers in various different 2D & 3D styles using Pastel's wallpaper creator.
In the free version, try out the built-in library, and add your own palettes up to a limit of 8 items total. Upgrade to the unlimited version using in-app purchase.
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Pastel is an app for amateur developers & artists (like us!) that lets you build up a library of color palettes to use in your projects.
With drag & drop on iPad, drag colors out into other apps that support dropped colors, like Pages and Keynote, or many third-party apps from your favorite developers, so you can use your Pastel library as your master color collection across apps.
Seamlessly sync your library across devices with iCloud.
Analyze photos from the photo library or from Files to determine their dominant colors — choosing specific colors manually if you wish — and save their color palettes to Pastel.
Includes a variety of color pickers, like wheel, RGB sliders, and crayons, or pick named colors from your color library that you curate yourself. On iPad, drag and drop from the sidebar to any palette.
Copy a variety of developer-focused code representations, like RGB, hex, Objective-C, Swift and SwiftUI. Paste hex codes into the sliders color picker.
Copy a pixel bitmap representation of a palette to paste into your favorite pixel editor, share a screen-sized version to set as your wallpaper or Apple Watch face, or export a palette to Procreate®.
Create beautiful, colorful wallpapers in various different 2D & 3D styles using Pastel's wallpaper creator.
In the free version, try out the built-in library, and add your own palettes up to a limit of 8 items total. Upgrade to the unlimited version using in-app purchase.
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Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy policy: https://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/privacy
Latest updates
2.7
• Now supports iPhone Duo
• A new library sync architecture to improve the iCloud sync experience
2.6.2
• Behind the scenes improvements to the restore purchase flow
2.6.1
• Improved experience on iOS 27
Store changes
What Pastel changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
New screenshots 
9 screenshots (was 9)
New iPad screenshots
New screenshots
9 screenshots (was 9)
