Alternatives to Khroma

AI color tool that learns your preferences and generates personalized palettes. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

The original

  • Khroma

    AI color tool that learns your preferences and generates personalized palettes.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Khroma.

  • Coolors

    Fast color palette generator for browsing and tweaking combinations.

    FreemiumProprietaryWeb

    Coolors generates palettes quickly with keyboard shortcuts and community browsing, without a training step, but it is freemium with some features behind a paid plan.

  • Adobe Color

    A free web tool from Adobe for building color palettes from harmony rules, images and accessibility checks.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Adobe Color generates palettes from harmony rules and images rather than learned preferences, and adds WCAG contrast checking and color blindness simulation for free.

  • Paletton

    A long-running web color scheme designer built around a color wheel and classic harmony rules.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Paletton builds schemes from a color wheel and classic harmony rules instead of AI, with contrast checks and exports to CSS, ACO and GPL, and is ad-supported.

  • Color Hunt

    A curated web gallery of color palettes, updated daily, with a companion Chrome extension.

    Color Hunt replaces personalized AI suggestions with a free, hand-curated daily gallery of four-color palettes filterable by color and tags, plus a Chrome extension.

  • Huemint

    A web color palette generator that uses machine learning to create schemes for brands and websites.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Huemint also uses machine learning but needs no training step and previews palettes on brand, website and illustration mockups.

  • ColorSpace

    A web tool that generates matching color palettes and gradients from a single color.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    ColorSpace generates matching palettes and gradients from one starting color with no training step, though it offers few controls.

  • ColorKit

    A free collection of web tools for generating color palettes and gradients, plus palette inspiration.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    ColorKit provides a free palette generator and gallery of palettes with hex codes, without any AI personalization.

Also worth comparing

These listings name Khroma as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.

  • ColorMagic

    A free AI color palette generator that builds palettes from keywords, images or hex codes.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Khroma is also a free AI palette tool but learns your preferences through an initial training step instead of using keywords or images.

  • Colormind

    A web color palette generator that uses deep learning to produce color schemes in one click.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Khroma personalizes AI-generated palettes after an initial training step on your preferences, and has no API described.

  • Picular

    Search-based color tool that finds dominant colors for any word.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Khroma uses AI trained on your preferences to suggest palettes, rather than deriving colors from an image search for a word.

  • Poolors

    A web palette generator that suggests color combinations built from the colors designers use least.

    FreeProprietaryWeb

    Khroma generates AI palettes personalized to your preferences after an initial training step.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.

  • Happy Hues

    Curated color palettes shown applied live to an example website UI.

    FreeProprietaryWeb
  • Realtime Colors

    A web tool that previews a color palette and font pairing on a realistic page layout as you edit it.

    FreeProprietaryWeb
  • Color Leap

    A web app for browsing 180 color palettes drawn from art and culture across 4000 years.

    FreeProprietaryWeb