Color pickers are a handy tool for quickly finding, previewing, and selecting color values.
In this post, We rounded up and analyzed ten distinctive React & React Native color pickers and built a small overview of each one. Ideally, this will guide you in selecting the right library for your project.
Originally Published Sep 22 2022, updated May 30 2025
Table Of Contents:
Best Color Picker Components For React:
1. react-colorful
A tiny (2,8 KB) color picker component for React and Preact apps.
2. color-picker
A simple React Color Picker with tons of configuration options.
3. react-color
A tiny color picker widget component for React apps. These components can be installed and used separately.
4. react-color-palette
Lightweight Color Picker component for React.
5. react-colorpickr
A color picker component for React that’s just a color picker.
6. Color Picker for Harmonic Color Combinations – Harmony
The ‘Harmony’ color picker component is designed to make it easy to generate harmonic color combinations.
It computes complementary colors based on the primary color selected.
This allows developers and designers to easily create color palettes with built-in harmony, for more aesthetically pleasing designs.
7. React-best-gradient-color-picker
A customizable, easy to use color and gradient picker for React.js
React Native Color Picker Components
1. Easy Color Selection With The Reanimated Color Picker Component
Reanimated Color Picker allows you to add a fully customizable color picker to your React Native-powered apps with support for IOS, Android, Expo, and Web.
2. react-native-color-picker-ios
A React Native module that creates an iOS 14 style color picker on the app.
3. React Native Wheel Color Picker
A color picker component for react native.
Conclusion:
Hopefully, this roundup helped you to choose the perfect color picker for React & React Native development. I can’t say for sure that you won’t need another one eventually, but at least you will have started with some solid recommendations. Have fun, and let me know how it goes.