COLOR MUSE SE Colorimeter, Paint Color Matching Tool, Portable Digital Color Values, Reader, Sensor, Identify Closest Matching Paint and Scanner Device for Painters, Designers

We have a small painting business and color matching used to mean getting out several fan decks to try and find the best match. This little gem does it with an app and seems to do it with an amazing level of accuracy. It was easy to download and install the app. You don't have to give any personal information if you don't want to but if you want it to remember your matches, you have to play ball. Sampling colors from a number of areas is always a good idea, but we have found that this device pretty much nails the color and sheen as long as the sample area is clean. This is saving us a ton of paint on touch ups and blends. We can now confidently make a repair without having to run out entire walls or ceilings. We have had basically 100% success with this on probably 50 different colors so far. For the price, this is completely worth it. Basically the cost of 2 or 3 gallons of premium paint, if you get one mistint because you didn't guess right, this thing pays for itself. Supposedly, the company has partnered with Sherwin-Williams. There are versions of this device that have been branded for Sherwin-Williams and are pre loaded with the Sherwin Williams ENTIRE color palette. From what I have heard, they will be available from Sherwin-Williams for about $30 more than you can find them on Amazon. Not sure if it will be worth it, as the standard palette of Sherwin-Williams colors already on the app seems to do just fine. If I had to guess, ColorMuse will probably try and partner with all the big brands and do the same. If you are a painter or designer, you need one of these. Super handy.

Bona Fides: I am a product designer / industrial designer with a background in cosmetic manufacturing of consumer electronics. There's a good chance you have one of the things I've helped make in your pocket or home. I spend a LOT of time managing color matches and selections as a professional. I am accustomed to using $10,000 spectrophotometers in my line of work and know how to manage my color spaces and CIELAB tolerancing. This is what I do. I also work freelance and with startups, so I need my own color tools to do my job well. For a decade I've been buying low-cost colorimeters (ColorMunki, Swatchmate Cube, etc) with the hope of finding something with acceptable performance, small size, and reasonable out of pocket costs. Color Muse is by *far* the best colorimeter I've found for the single-person user - its Delta-E is on par with any device priced below $5,000 - its a fraction the size of its competitors - it works natively in CIELAB, RGB, and HSB - it is seamlessly integrated into a wide color ecosystem (if you care, I just want a measurement tool) My previous go-to for work that didn't require (or have access to) a Konica Minolta was the X-Rite COlorMunki Design. It worked fine but was clunky, had bad desktop software, and was $400. The Color Muse has the same level of performance, is 20% the size of my Colormunki, has a better UI, is rechargable, and is 1/10th the price. Unbelievable. The software is still a touch buggy, and build quality is good but not excellent. Like all <$5K colorimeters it does poorly on specular surfaces (i.e. anodized aluminum) but that's to be expected. It's also a LOT more forgivable in a product that costs 8x lattes instead of the same price as an iPad. I have suggested this purchase to every product designer and industrial designer I know. For the price and footprint you simply cannot do better.

Works good! Don't expect it to be a perfect match but it gets the color very close and with several options from which to choose and compare.

I was initially skeptical. Then I tried it on 5 different areas around the house that I needed paint for, and that otherwise would cost a lot of money to do. This thing suggested paints with 100% accuracy. You cannot tell the difference period. Very good product. Massive money saver. Easy to use. No bs.

Bought this specifically because they say it can accurately guess the sheen....it can't. I've tried many times on many different paints and sheens, and this thing doesn't even get close to guessing right. Dont buy this

I bought the COLOR MUSE 3 over it's competitors for two reasons: 1 - they have repeatability specifications explicitly listed on their website. 2 - it is able to measure gloss. I had two adhesive hangers that tore off the drywall paper when they fell off. The MUSE 3 was able to identify a close enough color that you cannot really see that the wall was repainted compared to the ones next to it. Unfortunately, the MUSE 3 was total failure when it came to identifying the glossiness. Perhaps it's because the wall is textured, but it thought that the wall was matte when it very clearly is not - see for yourself from the images. A satin finish seemed to do the trick. I'm satisfied that the MUSE 3 picked out a matching color, but I must deduct stars for the failure to properly identify the finish.

It's is amazing product I have tested about 30 randomly chosen samples from the printed NSC Index 1950 and the Color Muse device did not do a single mistake! I have no time and motivation to test all 1950 samples but it is highly probable that the device will be pretty accurate for all NCS samples. Needless to say that I used the original NCS Colourpin app which is compatible with Color Muse and shows directly NCS matches. (Color Muse and ColourPin hardware must be very similar or identical.)

Opened box , missing Micro USB Charging Cable, User Guide, and one cover!!

Good for comparing colors

non ci farei una tinta per una macchina, su un muro se la cava abbastanza bene. I campionari di default sono quasi tutti non reperibili in Italia

works well