5 Best ColorZilla Alternatives (2026): From Eyedroppers to Figma Export

ColorZilla earned its place: a fast, reliable eyedropper with millions of users and a gradient generator that has been around longer than most design tools. If all you need is "what color is that pixel," it remains excellent. But designer workflows have moved on — palettes now live in Figma as variables, handoff happens in code, and "copy one hex at a time" is the bottleneck. This is an honest comparison of five tools for 2026, judged on what each actually does well.

How we compare

Every tool below is scored on the same five things: eyedropping (picking a color from the screen), palette extraction (capturing a whole page's colors at once),gradient support, Figma workflow (getting colors into Figma as styles or variables), and price. No tool wins all five — the right pick depends on your job.

1. ColorZilla — the incumbent

The classic. ColorZilla's eyedropper is precise, its color picker is full-featured, and the built-in CSS gradient generator is genuinely useful for building gradients from scratch. Palette features exist (a palette viewer and history), and it is free. Where it shows its age: there is no real Figma workflow — you copy values one at a time and rebuild everything manually. Best for: developers and designers who want a dependable eyedropper and nothing more.

2. ChromaPick — the Figma-workflow pick

ChromaPick approaches the problem from the other end: instead of picking pixels, it reads a page's computed CSS and extracts the full palette — colors grouped by role, gradients with angles and stops, fonts — then exports it as Figma styles, tokens.json, or, on Pro, CSS variables and Tailwind configs. The eyedropper-style "what's that one color" job is not its focus; the "get this whole site into Figma" job is. Free tier covers 5 extractions per month with no account; Pro is a one-time $10 lifetime upgrade. Best for: designers building or auditing design systems in Figma. (Disclosure: we make ChromaPick.)

3. Eye Dropper by kepi — the open-source minimalist

A clean, open-source Chrome extension that does one thing well: pick a color from any web page and copy it in your preferred format. No accounts, no upsells, tiny footprint. It will not extract palettes or talk to Figma, but for the pure eyedropper job it is arguably the most pleasant of the bunch — and free forever. Best for: anyone who wants ColorZilla's core picking without the extra panels.

4. Sip — the macOS power tool

Sip lives in the Mac menu bar and goes beyond picking: it keeps palette collections, converts between formats, and syncs with design tools. It is polished and powerful, but it is macOS-only, desktop-first (not in the browser where the website is), and paid. Best for: Mac-based designers who want a system-wide color utility rather than a browser workflow.

5. Frank DeLoupe — the old-school classic

A tiny macOS menu-bar picker that has been around for years: click, pick, copy the hex. No palettes, no Figma, no fuss. It is the definition of a single-purpose utility and still works fine. Best for: minimalists on Mac who pick colors occasionally and want zero interface.

Feature comparison

Which should you choose?

• Pick single colors occasionally → Eye Dropper (free, minimal) or ColorZilla (more features).
• Build palettes in the browser → ColorZilla's generator or Sip's collections.
• Get a website's palette into Figma → ChromaPick — it is the only tool here whose core job is browser-to-Figma extraction. Our walkthrough on copying website colors into Figma shows the workflow end to end.
• System-wide Mac picking → Sip or Frank DeLoupe.

If you are still deciding between approaches rather than tools, our roundup of the best Chrome extensions for designers covers the broader toolkit, and palette generator tools are worth a look if you want to create palettes from scratch rather than extract them.

The bottom line

ColorZilla is not a bad tool that needs replacing — it is a great eyedropper from an era when copying one hex at a time was the whole job. The job has grown: palettes now travel from browser to Figma to code as structured data. If that is your workflow, use a tool built for it. ChromaPick is free for 5 extractions a month with no account, and Pro is a one-time $10 upgrade for unlimited extractions and code exports.

Migrating from ColorZilla: what actually changes

If you have used ColorZilla for years, switching tools feels unnecessary until you map the workflow differences. With ColorZilla, a typical "get this site into Figma" job looks like: pick a color, copy the hex, switch to Figma, create a style, switch back, repeat a dozen times. The eyedropper is fast; everything around it is manual. With an extraction-first tool, the same job is: scan once, review the grouped palette, paste into Figma. The picking step disappears entirely because you never pick colors one by one.

What you give up in the trade: the fine-grained control of choosing exactly which pixel to sample (useful on image-heavy pages), and ColorZilla's mature picker UI that many designers know by muscle memory. A pragmatic setup many designers land on is keeping a lightweight eyedropper installed for one-off picks and an extraction tool for palette jobs. They solve different problems, and neither replaces the other.

Related guides

• Best Chrome Extensions for Designers — the full designer toolkit beyond color.
• Website Color Palette Generator Tools — create palettes from scratch instead of extracting.
• How to Extract Color Palettes from Any Website — the extraction technique in depth.