PatrickAngle
Free · iPhone & iPad · Since April 2010

Stagehand

Four swatch books. One app. Every gel searchable by name, by number, by description — or by choosing a color and asking what comes closest.
Four books, one app

Roscolux. GAM. Lee. Apollo.

Gels are viewable by their swatch book, or all together sorted by hue, letting you find the perfect color without worrying about the manufacturer.

Each gel carries its manufacturer information — transmission and description — alongside samples of its neighbors in the book, so a color never shows up without its context.

Stagehand showing every book at once, sorted by hue: a grid of pink and magenta swatches, each labeled with its number and name. Lee 048 Rose Purple opened in Stagehand, listing its transmission, manufacturer, hex value, description, and RGB and HSB breakdowns above the gel itself.
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Search by color

Pick a color off the wheel and Stagehand returns the closest matches across every book it knows — not just the ones whose names you remember.

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Search by anything else

Name, number, and description are all indexed. If you can half-remember it, you can find it.

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Free, and staying free

Stagehand is a free reference for professionals and amateurs alike. Over 35,000 people have downloaded it, and it gets used hundreds of times a day.

Get Stagehand

Free on the App Store, for iPhone and iPad.