C
Color Hunt
Hugo Software

Color Hunt

Color Hunt is a calm daily ritual game about noticing color in the real world. Each day the app gives the user one "color of the day" — always a natural, findable color, never neon. The user goes outside, points the phone camera at something (a wall, a fruit, a door, the sky), and a crosshair samples the color under it in real time, showing a live perceptual match meter. When the color is close enough, the user takes a shot and that catch is saved into their personal palette with a poetic color name, the hex value and the photo. Core features: color of the day with a daily streak counter; a live camera "hunt" screen with crosshair sampling and a generous match meter; a photo-upload fallback for users who decline camera access or have no camera; free hunt mode (catch any color) and themed hunts (Sunset Tones, Reds, Pastels, Earth & Stone, Waters); a "Theme War" challenge mode where the user tries to catch all six colors of a palette within three hours; palettes grouped by month and theme; a color calendar view of the year; a color detail view; and an export feature that renders a shareable poster image (square or 9:16) of a palette, or a single color card, which the user can save to their device. Monetization: NONE. Version 1.0 is completely free. There are no ads, no ad SDKs, no advertising identifiers, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases and no paid features. Nothing is locked. Accounts: there are no user accounts, no sign-up, no login and no social features. The app cannot share or sync anything between users. There is no server component at all — the app ships as a self-contained offline bundle and does not send data anywhere. Permissions used: CAMERA — used only to show a live viewfinder and to sample the color under the crosshair, and to take the user's own capture photos. The camera is only active on the hunt screen. The camera permission is declared optional, so the app still installs and works on devices without a camera by using the photo-upload fallback. The app does not record video, does not use the microphone, does not use location, does not read contacts and does not require network access to function. Storage: photos the user captures and their color entries are stored locally on the device (IndexedDB and local storage). The user's streak and settings are also local. Exported posters are written to the device only when the user explicitly chooses to export or share.