Native macOS App
Every frame has a palette waiting to be found
PaletteFrame analyzes your videos and extracts their dominant colors into beautiful, shareable exports. Built for filmmakers, designers, and anyone who sees in color.
Capabilities
Built for people who see differently
Universal Format Support
MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, WebM, and more. Every codec you throw at it — H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9, AV1, ProRes — handled natively through a hybrid decoder that just works.
K-Means Color Extraction
Intelligent clustering identifies 3 to 15 dominant colors from your footage. Sorted by prominence, filtered for duplicates, with letterboxing excluded automatically.
Hero Frame Selection
24 auto-selected candidates scored for sharpness and composition. Pick the frame that defines your video's look.
Export in HD, 2K & 4K
Professional PNG exports with hex codes, four layout modes, and 300 DPI print-ready quality. Share or use in your creative workflow.
Hardware Accelerated
AVFoundation leverages Apple's VideoToolbox for H.264 and H.265. FFmpeg handles everything else. Smart fallback, zero configuration.
One-Click Hex Codes
Click any swatch to copy its hex value. Copy all codes at once. Visual feedback confirms every action. Fast workflow integration.
Workflow
Three steps. One beautiful result.
Import
Drag any video file onto PaletteFrame. All major formats supported out of the box — MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, WebM, and more.
Analyze
K-means clustering samples your footage intelligently. Watch as dominant colors emerge in real-time, sorted by prominence.
Export
Choose your hero frame, select a layout, pick your resolution. Export a stunning PNG with hex codes — ready to share or print.
Start seeing your videos in color
Available now on the Mac App Store. Requires macOS 15.0 (Sequoia) or later. Apple Silicon and Intel supported.
Video Formats
MP4, MOV, M4V, MKV, AVI, WebM, MPG, MPEG, FLV, WMV
Codecs
H.264, H.265/HEVC, VP8, VP9, AV1, ProRes, MPEG-4, Motion JPEG
Built With
Swift 6 & SwiftUI, AVFoundation, FFmpeg 6.1, Core Image, Accelerate
Performance
Tested up to 50GB files. Hardware accelerated via VideoToolbox. Peak memory ~2GB.