Swatch This
Color naming game
Ratings
Age
4+
Category
Word
Languages
English
Sun Feb 01 2026
Fixed a bug on iPad where current online matches weren't showing up in the menu.
Swatch This! is a game designed for artists, designers, and anyone who loves color. The gameplay involves organizing scrambled swatches of color into a harmonious spectrum or gradient. As you progress, the differences between shades become more subtle, testing your ability to distinguish between tiny variations in hue and saturation. It is a peaceful, meditative experience that turns color theory into a fun and accessible game.
Dinsun Expert Review
Our Expert Score
As someone who appreciates good design, Swatch This! is pure eye candy. It’s a very simple concept—essentially a color-sorting task—but it’s executed with such polish that it becomes incredibly addictive. There is a specific kind of satisfaction in seeing a jumbled mess of colors suddenly snap into a perfect, smooth gradient.
It’s the perfect 'transit game'—something you can play on the bus or train to relax your mind. It’s also surprisingly educational for anyone interested in digital art, as it trains your eye to see the subtle differences in CMYK and RGB values. If you liked 'I Love Hue,' you will absolutely adore this. It’s a quiet, beautiful, and polished little gem.
Features
Hundreds of handcrafted color puzzles
Clean, distraction-free UI
Satisfying 'click' haptics
Color-blind friendly modes
Tips & Walkthrough
Each puzzle usually has 'anchor' swatches (marked with a dot) that cannot be moved. Use these as your starting points. Build out from the anchors by finding colors that are only slightly different, gradually filling in the spectrum.
Gameplays
The game features hundreds of levels across various difficulty sets. Early levels use simple rainbow gradients, while later 'Expert' levels might use monochromatic scales or complex multi-directional color grids.
Screenshot
Q&A
No, Swatch This! is designed to be played at your own pace. There are no timers or move counters to worry about.
Ratings & Reviews
Fun but needs notifications
Sun Sep 26 2021 jesseamberI love this concept and the execution is great. But when playing with random people online, games don’t get finished, or take a long time to finish, maybe because there are no notifications letting people know they’ve been auto matched. If this was resolved I’d give it 5 stars!
Good concept, terrible execution
Wed Feb 16 2022 Tea berry-blueI downloaded this game a few days ago. In that time, I tried to play six games. Only two of them have been completed. One of them was begun on TUESDAY of last week (it’s Sunday night) and is still waiting to complete. What this says to me is the developers didn’t think through the online aspect of this at all. People play games when they have free time, and expect the game to begin and end in a reasonable amount of time and have fallbacks for if a player drops mid-game or doesn’t take a turn in a timely manner, such as having default auto-generated answers that the game provides on a player’s behalf if the player doesn’t provide them. There are so many PVP games on the market that successfully account for this that could be used as a model. There should be a timer to name the colors— say, one minute per color— and it shouldn’t be turn-based. Everyone should be naming colors in the same four-minute timeframe. Once the names are in, at the four minute mark or sooner, everyone should get the names sent to them immediately and should, again at the same time, have thirty seconds per color to pick the best answer. At the two minute mark, the winner is selected. Why is the game turn-based in a way where games are held up by players who leave and never come back? This isn’t a new or experimental idea so it should be easy to follow best practices for this style of gameplay in games already on the market. If that can get revamped, I think this game could be a lot of fun. It’s just not right now.
Love the local play
Sat Oct 22 2022 confused_readerI’ve only played it locally, though there is an online option, but I love this game and play it with who ever is around me when we have a little down time, like while in a restaurant. And everyone always ends up loving it too. Personally, I think paying $2 for more swatches was worth it, and would like it if they added some more!
Great concept, but not enough players
Sat Feb 05 2022 Emobmo101Don’t get me wrong, the game is fun! However, there’s not a huge player base, and I’m usually stuck waiting days for the next turn on an online match. If you could play locally online, match with other players who are actively online, or at the very least get a notification when another player has finished their turn, this would be a 5 star game!
Fun but frustrating
Thu Nov 11 2021 Holin33I really like the concept of the game but it is to slow paced. I would like it where they match you with someone that is playing the game at the same time. Waiting days for someone to take their turn is very frustrating. I’m not going to delete because this could be a fun game, just hoping they change it. When that happens they get ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.
Fun and gorgeous
Wed Aug 18 2021 IlovercIf you like making up words and pretty colors, do I have a game for you! It’s cool how you can play in person or with friends on the other side of the country on your own time. 10/10 makes me want ice cream after playing.
Online Multiplayer not working
Sun Oct 03 2021 Burnt KloverfieldFun game! The automatch for more than one opponent isn't working. I select to add more players to automatch and it goes to a loading/quit screen and it just has a spinning loading circle. I can't tap on anything and I have to close the app and reopen it. I would love to play against more than one opponent but it never loads.
No One Player & No Online Players
Wed Nov 26 2025 Bobette134It could be fun, but there is no one player version so you have to have someone with you to play with or be matched online. Unfortunately most of the games sit “waiting for player” and you are never matched, so the game is never finished.
