Nix Mini 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

Not only is this a fantastic device which really made choosing colours for our walls a lot easier, the customer service is second to none going above and beyond. As with most rechargeable batteries, ensure the Nix Mini 3 is charged every month or so.

Works well from the few times I have used it. Seems to be accurate.

I have used the Nix 3 for a year now in the film industry as a set designer. I use it a handful of times a month, sometimes more.There is a lot to say, so I'll summarise it into a bullet point list:1. The app is clunky to use for the following reasons:A) You have to sign up (this shouldn't really be necessary, they just make you do it so they can harvest your data and sell you more stuff). You're also frequently logged out automatically which is just annoying.B) Not all colours are available in the app automatically. RAL/ Pantone for example require an additional subscription purchase ($50/year) no thanks.C) The app often fails to recognise my nix. I have to forget the device and add it fresh. Seems to happen every few weeks.D) The monochromatic interface is difficult to navigate. Some colourful icons would make it more intuitive.E) There's no way to get a digital CMYK value aas well as a paint value with one scan. You have to scan twice. Not a big deal, but is definitely something that would improve user experience.F) Once a swatch is saved, you can't convert it to another paint library. For example, if I scan a wall colour and match it to a Dulux colour, and then save it, I cannot then convert it to a Johnstone's colour. This would require another scan. In addition to this, it would be better if you could match to multiple libraries simultaneously with one scan and save multiple best matches rather than having to scan and save a seperate swatch for each library.G) The app allows you to save, categorise and add notes to swatches but it's a little overcomplicated. For example, the paint colour archives are referred to as "Colour Libraries" in the main menu, but when you "Save" a scanned colour, it puts it in the "Favourite colours" section. Inside here is your "Favourite libraries" which has nothing to do with paint libraries. When saving, it also forces you to pick a "library" and "collection" - no leaving it blank. Sound confusing? That's because it is! Some more user testing, refinement and tweaking of language would make this easier for the average user to utilise.These would all be forgiveable alone, but all together make it a really unpleasant, clunky digital experience.2. The plastic box it comes in is brittle and breaks easily. There's no closing mechanism so the lid just sits ontop and rattles around uselessly until it falls off. Why not provide a proper box?3. The calibration card is easy to lose (especially when the box is so useless!)4. The Nix does not come with any sort of protective cap for the sensor lens which is exposed and can easily trap dirt or get scratched (again, especially when the box is so useless!)5. There is no way to turn the nix off so it just kinda stays on until it runs out of battery. Every time I want to use it I have to charge it up for an hour.6. The Nix does come with a lanyard which is great to make sure you don't accidentally put it down and leave it somewhere when out on a job7. The Nix 3's colour accuracy is good. I mostly use it to match existing paint on walls but I also use it to colour match digitally.In conclusion: When it works, it works! It can be incredibly time saving when swatching lots of things. But even I (the designated office tech guru) always set aside 30mins whenever I plan to use it because it usually needs charging or bullying into working. Nix really need to refine their app.

Overall useful, and kind of cool. It does seem to do a decent job with the advertised use of matching paint colours. I've been trying to use it to get accurate colours from fabrics (for ecommerce photos), but results here are more mixed. A painted wall is going to be pretty uniform in terms of colour, whereas the perceived colour of fabric can be very different to the colour measured by this device, as the surface is much more complex, and the way light reflects off of it is a big part of how the colour looks in real life. It's still been a useful way of getting a basic benchmark, especially as photographing a fabric results in wildly different colours to what is seen in real life, especially with smartphones automatically trying to make photos look "better" rather than accurate. Doesn't get used as much as I'd hoped though, as just doesn't help enough to get an accurate representation of the real world perceived colour. For paint matching, I'm sure it's much more useful.

I had an office to decorate. Multiple different colours across different areas. I bought this to help identify the colours, hoping it would get me a close match. I had a play with it by scanning the drips on the side of an old can of paint. It read the colour exactly! This has become an invaluable little tool for me. Far exceeded my expectations at this price point. Very extensive library of different paint brands too. For a little over the price of a Dulux fan deck and much cheaper than the Dulux branded scanner which looks identical, this is highly recommended.

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.

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

J’ai acheté un appareil Nix pour la lecture des couleurs. Malheureusement, j’ai dû le renvoyer en raison d’un dysfonctionnement. Cela peut arriver, bien entendu — c’est d’ailleurs à cela que servent les garanties.Le fabricant a été rapide et efficace : on m’a immédiatement conseillé de renvoyer l’appareil pour en recevoir un autre. Quelques jours plus tard, j’avais un nouveau produit entre les mains.Celui-ci fonctionne parfaitement, tout comme le service client. Rien à redire : réactif, professionnel et à l’écoute. Je recommande.

Perfect. Very happy either way my purchase.

LO usé para un práctica de ecología para comprobar el color del suelo, en la literatura mencionan que el nix pro da buenos resultados. Este nix mini es útil para prácticas de campo, probablemente no tan preciso para análisis más rigurosos.

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UPDATE #2: Back to five stars!The NIX team was wonderful in figuring out what could be wrong. After some back and forth, they sent me a replacement and it connected IMMEDIATELY! There was not a hesitation or lag at all. The last one must have been faulty. And what is also interesting is that when I scanned the same paint sample as before with the last faulty one, this new one came up with totally different color names and options. So, I'm now hopeful it will continue to connect easily and be as accurate as I think it will be.UPDATE: ONE STAR.This device is nearly IMPOSSBLE to connect. It's just ridiculous. It's too bad because when I do get it to connect, it's quite accurate (see below). But, this device is wayyyyyy toooooo difficult to connect and it's really frustrating. I tried turning on and off the bluetooth numerous times, trying to connect it, then restarting the app, over and over and over. TERRIBLE. So, I now give it ONE STAR.I'm surprised how accurate this new version is. I watched a video with someone who grabbed a bunch of random paint samples at a store, brought them home and scanned each of them to see how accurate it was. He found it to be accurate - exactly the paint sample name - 9 out of 10 times. The other time the second choice was the correct paint sample name. I tried the same thing and it was accurate about 90% of the time. What could be the issue in some cases is that the name of the paint may have changed, and it has an old name - or even maybe the samples at the store were outdated. I did notice that it had a bit harder time getting whites exact, which is what the one person in the video also said. But even then, I would definitely recommend this if you're needing to match colors or even see colors out there that you like and want to use somewhere.