Pika
Pika is a native macOS color picker that helps designers and developers capture onscreen colors and copy them in useful formats.
What is Pika?
Pika is a native macOS color picker for selecting colors from anywhere on your screen and copying them in the format you need. It is aimed at designers, front-end developers, and other Mac users who regularly work with visual assets, user interfaces, or digital brand colors. The app focuses on a fast, lightweight workflow so you can sample a color, review its value, and move it into your design or code without interrupting what you are doing. Pika supports common color-picking tasks for interface design, web work, and creative production on Mac. It is published by David Charles Gleason and distributed as a small desktop utility for macOS.
Key features
- Pick colors from anywhere on the screen
- Copy sampled colors in different output formats
- Use a lightweight native macOS interface
- Fit color sampling into design and front-end workflows
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Pika is a normal desktop utility for color picking on macOS. Access to screen content is expected for this kind of tool because it needs to read onscreen colors where you point. If you no longer use it, removing the app should only affect your ability to sample and copy colors from the app.
Recommendation: Keep Pika if you regularly sample colors for design, UI work, or web development. If you do not use a dedicated color picker, you can remove it without affecting macOS beyond losing its color-picking workflow.
Common paths
/Applications/Pika.app
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