Sample any pixel with a magnifier loupe, import an entire brand from its website, and organize colors, logos, fonts, and notes into kits that sync across your Macs — with AI that runs on your own Claude or ChatGPT key — or a model you host yourself.
One app instead of five tabs, a notes doc, and a screenshots folder
A precise screen picker on top; real brand-identity tooling underneath. Explore each in depth.
A magnifier loupe shows pixels up close with a crosshair, so you nail the exact color anywhere on screen.
Learn more → Collection from WebsitePoint it at any site and get a ready kit: role-named colors, high-res logos, the actual webfonts, a full-page screenshot — and with your AI key, even the official brand guidelines.
Learn more → Your AI, your keyPaste a Claude or ChatGPT key, or point Pocket CVI at your own Ollama / LM Studio server. Your account, your data, a few cents per request — or free on your own hardware. Everything still works without any of it.
Learn more → One-click design manualsGenerate a multi-page A4 brand manual from any kit — a Pro tool; with AI, it's written and typeset in the brand's own fonts.
Learn more → Organized brand sheetsGroup colors, logos, fonts, and documents into named brand sheets for every client. Recent and Clipboard fill themselves in.
Learn more → AI palette generatorGenerate a balanced five-role scheme locally — or describe the brand and let AI design and name it.
Learn more →Export a collection — colors, notes, logos, and fonts — as a single self-contained .pocketcvi file. Send it over; they import it and have everything. And between your own Macs, iCloud keeps the whole library in sync — files included.
Also inside: Extract from image · Contrast checker · Fonts with install detection · iCloud sync
Five places where Pocket CVI puts a model to work — describing, finding, designing, naming, writing — so a kit arrives closer to finished. All on your own Claude, ChatGPT, or a model you run yourself.
Import a website and get proper CVI notes — written from its palette, its type, and its own words — straight into the collection.
Learn more → ✨ Official guides, foundAI searches the web for the guidelines the brand itself published, downloads the PDFs, and pins the most credible one to the top of the kit.
Learn more → ✨ Palettes from a sentenceDescribe the brand — “warm, Scandinavian, for a bakery” — and get a named, five-role scheme designed around your base color.
Learn more → ✨ Color names with meaningEvocative, brand-aware names for every unnamed color — automatically, even as your clipboard captures them.
Learn more → ✨ Manuals, written & typesetA multi-page A4 manual, its guidance composed by AI and set in the brand's own fonts. A deliverable, not a moodboard.
Learn more → Your AI, your keyBring a Claude or ChatGPT key, or point Pocket CVI at your own Ollama or LM Studio server. Cents per request on a cloud key — free on your own hardware. Nothing is proxied through us, and every feature names the agent that did the work.
How it works →Part of Pro — €5/month or €99 once, with a 3-day free trial. Everything else in Pocket CVI is free forever, and every ✨ surface works without AI too.
Hit ⌃⌘⇧P, line the loupe up on any pixel, and click. The color lands in Recent instantly.
Point Collection from Website at a URL and get colors, logos, fonts, a screenshot — and with your AI key, even the official brand guidelines.
Generate palettes from a written brief, let AI name your colors, and contrast-check the pairs that matter.
Generate a design manual, export the kit as one .pocketcvi file, and let iCloud keep every Mac current.
Each collection is a living document: an editable title, rich-text CVI notes, the official brand guide and design manual one click away, then Colors, Logos, Fonts, and Documents — the whole identity, scrollable top to bottom.
From brand managers to front-end developers. See all use cases →
A new campaign lands and three agencies are asking for “the exact brand colors.” Instead of digging through old PDFs, you open the brand kit, confirm the hex values, read your own usage notes — and the brand's official guidelines are linked right at the top of the sheet. One export later, everyone's working from the same file.
New client, existing brand. You point Collection from Website at their site and get the palette, logos, and webfonts before the kickoff call ends. You refine with the loupe, write your recommendations in the notes, and at project wrap hand over a generated design manual plus the kit as a single .pocketcvi file.
You're translating a design into code and need the button color that isn't in the spec. You pick it off the mockup, grab it as HEX or RGB with one click, and check the text-on-button contrast before it ever hits a pull request.
Built for macOS 26 with Liquid Glass and light/dark support. It feels like part of the system, not a web app in a frame.
The AI features run on your own Claude or ChatGPT key — or your own local model via Ollama or LM Studio. Direct from your Mac, never proxied through us. Free covers everything else, forever.
Colors come with the logos, fonts, documents, and usage notes that actually make a brand — all in one collection, all synced.
Generate a real design manual from the kit, hand the whole identity over as one .pocketcvi file, and let honest badges say what was made by AI.
The app is free forever for everything that doesn't call an AI model — picking, brand kits, website import, contrast, fonts, sync, and .pocketcvi sharing. Pro adds the five AI features plus pro tools like swatch export — €5 a month or €99 once, with a 3-day free trial and no card required. See the pricing page for the full split.
Pocket CVI is a native Mac app, and Mac only. It's built specifically for macOS 26 using the latest system design — Liquid Glass, with full light and dark support.
Pro unlocks the AI features in the app; the AI itself runs on a back-end you bring. With a Claude or ChatGPT API key it's billed by your provider — usually a few cents per request; with your own local model (Ollama, LM Studio) there's nothing to pay per request at all. Nothing is proxied through our servers and we add no markup, which is why Pro costs €5 a month instead of a typical AI subscription. Note: a Claude Pro/Max or ChatGPT Plus chat subscription is not an API key; you need a developer key with pay-per-use billing.
Claude, ChatGPT, or your own self-hosted model through any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM). Configure them side by side in Settings → AI and switch one on at a time, or pause AI entirely — keys stay in your Mac's Keychain. Every AI surface names the agent doing the work, right down to the design manual's credits. (Official-guide web search is the one feature that needs Claude or ChatGPT — a local model can't browse.)
Everything except the AI features and the pro export tools: the loupe picker, unlimited brand kits, website import (colors, logos, fonts, screenshots), the local 5-role palette generator, contrast checking, font install detection, documents, iCloud sync, and one-file .pocketcvi sharing. No account, no watermark, no collection limit. Pro adds the AI features, design-manual generation, and swatch export to Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, PowerPoint and Keynote.
The core app works fully offline: picking, collections, notes, contrast checking, and export/import. Three things reach the internet — website import (it fetches the site you point it at), iCloud sync, and the AI features on your own key.
Your library lives on your Mac and syncs — files included — through your private iCloud storage, which we never see. AI requests go directly from your Mac to Anthropic, OpenAI, or a model server you run yourself; any key is stored in the Mac's Keychain and never leaves it.
Export any collection as a single self-contained .pocketcvi file — it includes the colors, rich-text notes, logos, and fonts. Send that one file to anyone; they import it and get the complete brand kit. For polished handoffs, generate a design manual PDF straight from the kit.
Pick a color from anywhere on your screen, and build the rest — colors, logos, fonts, and notes — in one native Mac app.
