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Pick any color on your Mac — and turn it into a complete, synced brand kit.
Pocket CVI is a native macOS color picker and brand-kit manager. Pick any pixel on screen with a magnifier loupe, import an entire brand from its website, and keep colors, logos, fonts, documents and notes together in kits that sync across your Macs. The core app is free forever and works offline. Pro adds five AI features on your own key (Claude, ChatGPT or self-hosted) plus two local pro tools: design-manual generation and swatch export.
Pocket CVI is a native macOS app for people who work with brand colors every day: designers, developers, marketers and brand owners. Instead of five browser tabs, a notes document and a screenshots folder, it keeps a company's whole visual identity — colors, logos, fonts, documents and rich-text notes — in one window, organized as brand kits.
The picker is the signature feature: press Ctrl-Cmd-Shift-P anywhere on the Mac and a round magnifier loupe follows the cursor. One click captures the exact pixel as HEX, RGB or HSL, on any connected display, with continuous picking to grab a whole run of colors. Two automatic collections do the housekeeping: Recent gathers what you pick, and Clipboard captures color values you copy in other apps.
Building a kit can start from a URL. Point Pocket CVI at a website and it imports the brand: colors named by their role, logos at their highest resolution, the site's webfonts and a full-page screenshot. From any kit it generates a multi-page A4 design manual, checks WCAG-style contrast, and exports swatches for Illustrator, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Keynote or a codebase. Kits sync between Macs through the user's own iCloud — files included — and travel as single .pocketcvi files.
Everything that doesn't call an AI model is free, forever — no account, no watermark, no collection limits — and the core app works fully offline. Pro (€5/month or €99 once, three-day trial without a card) is more than AI. It adds five AI features — written brand descriptions, official brand-guide scouting, palettes from a written brief, AI color naming, and premium AI-typeset design manuals — and two local pro tools that need no key and no network: design-manual generation and swatch export for Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, PowerPoint, Keynote and code. The AI runs on the user's own Anthropic or OpenAI key, or a self-hosted model such as Ollama; Nullbase never proxies requests or adds a markup.
Pocket CVI is made in Denmark by Nullbase, is signed with an Apple Developer ID, notarized by Apple, and updates itself.
| Developer | Nullbase ApS, Randers, Denmark — nullbase.eu |
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| Current version | 1.0.1 · released 27 August 2026 |
| Price | Free core app, forever. Pro: €5/month or €99 one-time; EU VAT is added or included as the law requires. 3-day Pro trial, no card. |
| Pro includes | Five AI features on the user’s own key — plus two local pro tools that need no key or network: design-manual generation and swatch export (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, PowerPoint, Keynote, CSS/JSON). |
| Licensing | One Pro license covers up to 5 Macs, verified offline on-device. All future updates included. |
| Requirements | macOS 26 or later · Universal binary (Apple silicon & Intel) |
| Size | ≈4.3 MB download · ≈9 MB installed · English |
| Installation | Direct .dmg from pocketcvi.com/download — drag to Applications, no account — or Homebrew: brew install --cask nullbase-saas/tap/pocket-cvi. Built-in daily update checks (Sparkle). |
| Security | Signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple. The Gatekeeper signature reads “Steenfeldt Holding ApS” — Nullbase is a registered trading name of that company; this is expected. |
| Privacy | Library data stays on the user’s Mac and their own iCloud; AI keys live in the macOS Keychain and are never proxied. No ads, no tracking. Full policy. |
| Audience | Designers, developers, marketers and brand owners who work with brand colors and visual identities. |
| Contact | hello@pocketcvi.com — support and press |
Retina PNGs (2560×1600), current release, real data — nothing staged or composited. Click for full size; captions and alt text are included in the ZIP. Please don’t crop the window chrome in ways that misrepresent the app.
The ZIP contains the app icon as a 1024 px PNG and true-vector SVG, plus light- and dark-background logo lockups on transparency. The full rules live in the official brand guidelines (also a PDF in the ZIP). Please write the name as Pocket CVI, don’t alter the icon beyond proportional resizing, and don’t imply endorsement by Nullbase ApS.
Pocket CVI is made by Nullbase, a Danish micro-SaaS studio in Randers. Nullbase builds small, focused, privacy-first tools on a simple idea: build fewer things, and build them well. Its products are QRBase, PasteBase, Grump and Pocket CVI — each privacy-first, EU-hosted, and made in Denmark.
The full version history lives at pocketcvi.com/releases and is included in the ZIP as plain text.
