KColorChooser

Color selector and palette editor

by KDE

Flathub (Flatpak): ★ 3.5 (13)Updated 1 month agoActively maintained
Flatpak (recommended) Snap Arch Linux Debian Ubuntu Fedora openSUSE Alpine Linux Void Linux Slackware Solus Nixpkgs

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About

KColorChooser is a color palette tool, used to mix colors and create custom color palettes. Using the dropper, it can obtain the color of any pixel on the screen. A number of common color palettes are included, such as the standard Web colors and the Oxygen color scheme.

Additional information

Project

Developer
KDE
License
MIT (free software)What this license lets you do
Latest release
September 10, 2026 (1 month ago)Actively maintained · 4+ releases in the last year
Release history
Last 4 releases
  • 26.04.3July 2, 2026
  • 26.04.2June 4, 2026
  • 26.04.1May 7, 2026
  • 26.04.0April 16, 2026

Install

Available via
Flatpak · Snap (2) · Arch Linux · Debian · Ubuntu · Fedora · openSUSE · Alpine Linux · Void Linux · Slackware · Solus · Gentoo · Nixpkgs
All 14 packagings

Flathub (Flatpak), Snap Store, Snap Store (Beta build), Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Nixpkgs, openSUSE, Alpine Linux, Void Linux, Slackware, Solus, Gentoo (Candidate build)

About this data

Sources
Sources disagree on the license
Catalog data as of
October 12, 2026
How each source lists it (14)
SourceNameVersionBuilt byLicenseDescription
Flathub (Flatpak)KColorChooser26.04.3—MITColor selector and palette editor
Snap Storekcolorchooser26.04.3—GPL-2.0+color chooser and palette editor
Snap Store (Beta build)kcolorchooser26.04.3—GPL-2.0+color chooser and palette editor
Debiankcolorchooser4:25.04.0-1Distribution build—color chooser and palette editor
Ubuntukcolorchooser4:25.12.3-0ubuntu1Distribution build—color chooser and palette editor
Fedorakcolorchooser26.08.1Distribution buildLicenseRef-Callaway-BSDA color chooser
Arch Linuxkcolorchooser26.08.2-1Distribution buildGPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.0-or-laterColor Chooser
Nixpkgskcolorchooser26.08.2Distribution buildBSD-3-Clause AND CC0-1.0A small utility to select a color
openSUSEkcolorchooser26.08.2Distribution buildMITColor Chooser
Alpine Linuxkcolorchooser26.04.2-r0Distribution buildMITA color palette tool, used to mix colors and create custom color palettes
Void Linuxkcolorchooser26.08.1_1Distribution buildMITKDE's Color Chooser
Slackwarekcolorchooser26.08.2-1Distribution build—kcolorchooser (color chooser)
Soluskcolorchooser25.08.2Distribution buildMITColor chooser and palette editor
Gentoo (Candidate build)kcolorchooser26.08.2Distribution buildMITKDE color selector/editor
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