One price.
Paid at the end.
No subscription, no renewal, no credits — and nothing charged up front. You see the number before you shoot a single photo, and it only moves when your verdict is bound and you choose to open it.
A free read first, always. Starting costs nothing.
or read my colors free →When the money moves
- 01 Run the session Photos, gray-card calibration, the drape rounds. Free, start to finish.
- 02 Your verdict is bound Season decided, palette mounted, document sealed. Still nothing owed.
- 03 $39 breaks the seal Your season, every color, the working. Or walk away and pay nothing.
How it compares
A leaf means they have it; a dash means they don't, or not exactly. One row goes to the in-person studio, on purpose.
| In-person color analysis House of Colour, sci\ART | Face-structure apps Qoves | Subscription color apps Style DNA, Dressika | One-time color apps ToneMatch, MySeason | Callume | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The same answer, every photo | yes | no | no photo-dependent | no photo-dependent | yes gray-card calibrated |
| Names your season | yes | no | yes | yes | yes |
| Color and face shape, one report | no shape by eye | no no color read | no | no | yes |
| The numbers, not just a label | no | no | no | no | yes |
| Your photos, deleted | yes | no | no | no | yes gone in 72h |
| A document you keep | yes | yes | no rented access | no | yes a bound PDF |
| A trained eye, in the room | yes | no | no | no | no |
| Price | $150–800 | $150/yr | $13–260/yr | $7–10 | $39 once |
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Prices are the companies' own published rates, checked July 2026. The behavior notes reflect how each tool works, not our own testing of it.
What the $39 buys
Season picks your colors. Structure picks your shapes. Contrast picks your weight. Every item below is one of those three calls, measured — or the document they come bound in.
See everything inside the reading →
Read one first
Nobody shows you the document. Here's ours.
We checked about 110 color-analysis sites, from free apps to $2,950 consultants — not one shows its deliverable before you pay. So here are seven pages of a full 35-page reading, watermark and all, and the whole file to download.
Scroll the pages sideways. Tap one to read it.
This is a demonstration reading of a composed fixture — a specimen assembled to show the format. Your document is built from your measurements, not these.
Download the full sample — 35 pages, PDF, 6 MB →Before you pay
- Nothing is charged up front. Walk away before the reveal and you owe nothing.
- The free read is real, and yours to keep.
- If it breaks or you never get your document, it's refunded.
- Polar takes the payment. Your card never touches our server.
- Your photos are deleted within 72 hours. The reading stays a year.
- It reads you for styling. There is no score out of ten, and there never will be.
- The full list of what we refuse →