SupaPick

A color picker that lives in your Mac's menu bar

SupaPick sits in the menu bar as a small eyedropper and stays out of the way until you need a color. Press ⌃⌥C from any app, click the pixel, and the value is on your clipboard in the format you set once. No window to find, no value to retype, and the last 20 colors stay one click away in the menu.

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macOS 14 or later · Signed and notarized by Apple · Free for 7 days · 14-day refund

How to do it with SupaPick

  1. Press ⌃⌥C, or click the eyedropper in the menu bar and choose Pick Color. A loupe with a 15 × 15 pixel zoom follows your cursor.
  2. Move to the color you want. Arrow keys nudge one pixel; hold Shift to move ten.
  3. Click, or press Return or Space. The pill under the loupe changes to “#3A7BD5 copied” and the loupe closes.
  4. To change what gets copied, open the menu and choose a format under Default Format. The next pick uses it.

With what's built into macOS

macOS ships two pickers. Digital Color Meter, in Applications → Utilities, is a window that shows the values under your pointer. You keep it in front, hover, and press ⇧⌘C to copy the color as text. The Colors window that many apps open from a color well has an eyedropper too, but it sets the color of whatever you are editing in that app rather than handing you a value to paste.

Both are free and already on your Mac. Neither keeps a list of the colors you picked, and neither writes code such as Color(red:green:blue:) or a Tailwind class. Digital Color Meter also has to be open first, so a quick pick means finding its window. SupaPick adds a shortcut that works from any app, the formats developers paste, and a history that survives a restart.

Questions and answers

Which formats can SupaPick copy?
HEX, rgb(), hsl(), oklch(), SwiftUI Color in sRGB or Display P3, NSColor, UIColor, a CSS variable and the nearest Tailwind v4 class. Choose one as the default; every recent color in the menu also lists all of them.
Does it put an icon in the Dock?
No. SupaPick is a menu bar app. If you want a Dock icon anyway, turn it on in Settings → General.
Is SupaPick free?
Partly. Everything is unlocked for 7 days, no account needed. After that the loupe, HEX copy and HEX history stay free for good. Every other format, palettes with export and the contrast panel need a license key, which is $4.99 once for three Macs.

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