Description
ColorWander turns your photos into share-ready color cards — built from each photo's own dominant hues, with thoughtful typography and quiet details.
CLASSIC LAYOUT — FREE FOREVER
Pick a photo. ColorWander extracts its dominant color, places it next to your image, and adds a clean caption of where & when you took it. Export to your camera roll or share directly.
FREE & LIMITED-TIME FREE LAYOUTS
- Classic — color band + photo + caption, free forever
- Editorial Poster — magazine-style poster layout, free to use
- Glass Palette — liquid-glass color chips floating over your photo, free for a limited time. NEW: customize position, labels, arrangement, and opacity
- Gradient (top) — photo-aware gradient backdrop, free for a limited time
- Calendar (top) — NEW: turn a photo into a dated journal card; tap a day to move the highlight, or reset to the photo's date. Free for a limited time
- Color Story — editorial color-story layout, now free for a limited time
(Free layouts add a small "Made with ColorWander" mark; a Pro subscription removes it.)
PRO ACCESS
Unlock the rest of the layouts, higher-quality exports, and watermark removal with a Monthly or Yearly Pro subscription (1-week free trial), or a one-time Lifetime purchase.
PRO LAYOUTS & STYLES
- Calendar (bottom) — NEW: the calendar journal with the grid below the photo
- Polaroid, Polaroid Legacy, Window, Film, Tape, Stamp, Palette — themed / decorative layouts
- Color Bottom, Color Left, Color Right — split family with the color block on alternate edges
- Gradient Bottom, Gradient Left, Gradient Right — gradient backdrop in three more directions
- Universal angle control on every gradient (80-gradient library, photo-aware recommendation)
- Real scanned-film grain texture with intensity slider
- On iOS 26, Glass Palette exports use the real Liquid Glass material, matching the editor preview
LIVE PHOTO EXPORT — FREE
Export animated Live Photo cards — free for all users. Long-press in Apple Photos and the card comes alive, keeping the designed color-card frame, original audio, and your editor crop.
LITERARY CAPTIONS
1,900+ curated Chinese & English literary quotes matched to your photo's capture time. English quotes come from pre-1929 public-domain literature; Chinese quotes include modern and classical writers.
EXPORT QUALITY
- Free: 2K JPEG
- Pro 4K: 3840px JPEG
- Pro Lossless: PNG up to 6144px
7 LANGUAGES
English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish — fully localized, including in-app language switching.
EVERYTHING LOCAL
No accounts, no tracking SDKs, no cloud. Photos are processed entirely on-device. The only off-device requests are reverse-geocoding lookups for the city name in your caption.
INDIE-MADE
Built by one developer; Pro purchases support continued development. Classic, standard export, and Live Photo export stay free forever.
SUBSCRIPTION & PRICING
• Pro Monthly — auto-renewing monthly subscription with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers
• Pro Yearly — auto-renewing yearly subscription with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers (lower effective price per month)
• Pro Lifetime — one-time purchase covering all current and future v1.x features
• Free tier — Classic, color extraction, 2K JPEG export, gallery saving, and Live Photo export stay free forever. Glass Palette, Gradient (top), Calendar (top), and Color Story are free for a limited promotional period.
• Subscriptions auto-renew at the price shown in the App Store unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends
• Manage or cancel any time in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions
• All purchases are billed to your Apple ID
• Actual prices vary by storefront and are displayed at the App Store purchase point
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Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://colorwander.bryantchen.cc/privacy
What's new (v1.2.0)
v1.2.0 — Glass Palette reimagined, two new Calendar layouts, and Color Story now free for a limited time.
NEW
• Glass Palette fully upgraded — customize the panel position (6 placements incl. centered), chip labels (HEX code, or Chinese / English / Japanese traditional color names), 3×2 or 6×1 arrangement, and opacity
• New Calendar-top (free for a limited time) and Calendar-bottom layouts — a whole new way to journal your day; tap any day on the card to move the highlight, or reset it to the photo's date
• Color Story — the most-loved layout — is now free for a limited time
• On iOS 26, Glass Palette exports with the real Liquid Glass material, matching the editor preview exactly
IMPROVED
• Layout picker reordered to better match how you actually use it
• Various fixes and improvements