NixMini 3 Color Sensor - Paint Color Matching, CMYK, RGB, HEX. - Real-Life eyedropper Tool - for Painters, Graphic Designers, and More.

I got this for my husband who has over 20 years of experience as professional painter and decorator. He has always been very doubtful about any colour scanner and that they would give reliable results but because a job that was coming up with several colours to match, he knew he would start running between the shop and would need to spend an awful lot of money for tester pots.I took the plunge and thought if it doesnt work, we have tried but it could save him a lot of unnecessary running around.The delivery was prompt with amazon prime as usual and the set up of the scanner was super easy with the phone app.Well, what can we say. The results initially seemed like the shades were showing darker. But using then some tester booklets and scanning colours that we knew what they were, the matches were 100%, including the paint brand and colour name.What my husband did say that what one would need to keep in mind that certain paint brands just dont do exact matches that you may need. So you need to know your way around different companies and adjust your search result accordingly. For example shade X may be an exact match from Farrow&Ball or Johnsons but may not be available from Dulux.All in all the job that he did ended up being very quick because of the paint matches worked and the client was very happy.We hope the scanner will last and will be a great investment for years to come in regular use. Thank you

Works brilliantly! Matched to a commercially-available paint, and colour match is good. Saved me repainting a whole room to cover a couple of small marks

The device itself is very handy nice and accurate but it lucks with some obvious software features that should work on this device.So... it does not let you create a custom profile you need to have a device which costs 270£ which is not nice. They have that feature for the pro version which costs 270£ I was given a colour brochure and i wanted to scan create & compare-match colours and i cannot do that just because i paid 100£ and not 270. THIS IS NOT A HARDWARE FUNCTIONALITY! Also, on another note there is no database for Dulux Europe with matching names. Instead, it is limited to palette colours which is not helpful. So basically i am stuck on Johnston’s colours mostly. which would be minor problem if they at least enable the custom Library feature.

In some senses this is a well made and clever tool. It's compact, accurate and very easy to use but the functionality is so limited (and so unlike the highly misleading description on the product page) that tool is essentially useless for the purpose most people will buy it for - which is identifying and matching paints. How the Nix works is that it scans a surface and then tells you how closely it matches the colour swatch of a SINGLE PRE-SELECTED BRAND of paint. You cannot compare the scan to more than one brand at the same time, and you cannot do a reverse search which tells you the closest matching paint across all brands. To add insult to injury the app asks for a bunch of personal data like your age, which makes me very suspicious of how that data is being used. A quick return

I was skeptical when i purchased this after spending a week trying to photograph colour swatches to get their rgb values correct. I took this device and measured it against a datacolor checker card (These cards have lab-confirmed known-good rgb volours on them) and the nix gave me 99.5% accurate readings to the values that the lab provided so i know it can be trusted to read other paint swatches.The perception your eye gives of a colour does not match the actual colour you will see on screen so those giving these things bad reviews likely dont understand why that is. They demonstrably work as well as you can expect a device of this size and pricepoint to work if not exceeding my expectations. Especially if you have a calibrated monitor.My only gripe is that its hard sometimes to get the device to connect to my phone and i have to tell the app to forget the device every time in order for it to reconnect.