Color palette app Pastel now lets you put those gorgeous colors on your iOS 14 Home screen

By Oliver Haslam
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Pastel Iphone App Store Screenshots
Pastel Iphone App Store Screenshots (Image credit: Steve Troughton-Smith)

What you need to know

  • Pastel has been updated to add support for iOS 14's Home screen widgets.
  • Users can now put stunning slabs of color right onto your Home screen.
  • You can create flags, or just enjoy your favorite colors.

Pastel was designed with artists in mind, giving them a way to create color palettes on their iPhone and iPad. But you can do so much more with it after developer Steve Troughton-Smith updated the app with support for iOS 14's Home screen widgets.

Pastel is an app for amateur developers & artists (like us!) that lets you build up a library of color palettes to use in your projects.

Anyone putting a widget on their Home screen can do anything from creating their favorite flag to wearing their colors with pride, as the developer says. For me, I just want to put some soothing pastel colors onto my Home screen that fit in with my overall Home Screen Aesthetic. Because that's a thing we do in 2020.

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You can download the updated Pastel from the App Store (opens in new tab) for free now. There is an in-app purchase option available or those who want more palettes to play with as well.

Oliver Haslam
Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too.

Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.