ColorClip — Free macOS menu bar color picker

· ColorClip

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Pick color. Send to clipboard. · macOS 13+ · free & open source

Pick any color.
Copy it instantly.

A tiny, beautiful color picker that lives in your menu bar. Loupe any pixel on screen and grab its value as HEX, RGB, HSL and more — with a global shortcut.

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ColorClip color picker popover showing a picked color, its hex readout, recent swatches and a global shortcut hint

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Menu bar native

Lives in the top bar, no Dock icon.

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Global shortcut

⇧⌘C picks from anywhere. Configurable.

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Many formats

HEX, RGB, RGBA, HSL, HSB, SwiftUI.

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No permissions

No screen recording, no accessibility.

Build it in one command

No Xcode project. Just the Swift toolchain and a single script.

$ git clone https://github.com/IonicaBizau/ColorClip && cd ColorClip && chmod +x build.sh && ./build.sh