Alternatives to Sip
A macOS menu bar color picker for collecting, organizing and sharing color palettes. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Sip
A macOS menu bar color picker for collecting, organizing and sharing color palettes.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Sip.
ColorSlurp
Color picker for Mac and iOS with a magnifier and palette management.
ColorSlurp is freemium rather than paid, runs on iOS as well as macOS, and keeps a magnifier and contrast checking, though its full feature set needs the paid tier.
Pika
Pick colors from your screen with a macOS utility.
Pika is a free, MIT-licensed macOS screen color picker with keyboard shortcuts and several copy formats, but it offers no palette organization, color dock or color blindness simulation.
Just Color Picker
A free portable colour picker and colour editor for Windows and macOS that works offline.
Just Color Picker is free, portable and runs on Windows as well as macOS, adding screen freeze and point lock, but it has no palette organization features.
Gpick
An open-source desktop color picker and palette editor written in C++ with the GTK toolkit.
Gpick is a free, open-source picker and palette editor for Windows and Linux, so moving to it means leaving macOS and its menu bar workflow.
Instant Eyedropper
A free screen color picker for Windows and Linux that copies the picked color to the clipboard.
Instant Eyedropper is a free screen picker for Windows and Linux with a magnifier and multi-color sessions, but it has no macOS version and is an early release.
Eyedropper
A GNOME app for picking colors from the screen and viewing them in many color formats.
Eyedropper is a free open-source GNOME app for Linux that picks screen colors in many formats, without the palette organization or contrast checker that Sip offers.
ColorZilla
Browser extension eyedropper, color picker and gradient generator.
ColorZilla is a free browser extension with an eyedropper and gradient generator, limited to picking colors visible in the browser window instead of anywhere on the Mac screen.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Sip as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Colour Contrast Analyser
A free desktop app for checking foreground and background color contrast against WCAG, with eyedropper pickers.
Sip is a paid macOS color picker that includes a contrast checker and color blindness simulation alongside palette management.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Sim Daltonism
A color blindness simulator for Mac and iOS that filters a screen region or camera view.
Pastel
Generate, convert and manipulate colors from the command line.
Image Color Picker
A web tool that picks colors and extracts palettes from uploaded images, pasted screenshots or URLs.
HTML Color Codes
A web color picker and reference for Hex, RGB, HSL and OKLCH color codes.
Coolors
Fast color palette generator for browsing and tweaking combinations.
