Paint Pals Color Visualizer: Show the Repaint Before You Paint It
You know the moment. The estimate went great, the price is fine, and then: "We just need to figure out colors." That job is now stuck for two weeks while they squint at 2-inch swatches taped to the siding — and a stuck job is a job your competitor can still steal.
I built the Paint Pals Color Visualizer to kill that stall. Take a photo of their house at the kitchen table, pick real colors, and hand them the phone: here's your home in Naval with Pure White trim. Here it is again in Urbane Bronze. The color conversation that used to take two weeks takes ten minutes, and you're the contractor who made it easy.
How it works
- Snap a photo. The house or the room, right from your phone. Exterior and interior both work.
- Pick real colors. Search the actual fan decks — Sherwin-Williams, Behr, Benjamin Moore, PPG — or start from curated palettes (body/trim/accent combinations that already work together). The color you preview is the color they order at the store.
- Get the preview in about a minute. A photorealistic before/after with a draggable slider. Save it, download it, or compare a few schemes side by side.
The part your customers will love
Send them a share link. No account, no app — they open it on their couch, flip through the comparisons, and can even run a capped number of their own previews on your credits. You set the cap, links expire on their own, and you can kill one anytime. When they've picked two or three favorites, they buy physical samples for just those. Everyone stops guessing.
Pricing — pay per preview, not another subscription
One credit is one photorealistic preview. Buy a pack, use it whenever, top up when you run low. Credits don't expire.
| Pack | Price | Previews | Per preview |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $10 | 85 | ≈12¢ |
| Pro | $25 | 220 | ≈11¢ |
| Studio | $50 | 500 | ≈10¢ |
Run the math on one estimate: a dime a preview, maybe a dollar of previews per appointment — against a job that closes on the spot instead of stalling on color. There's no monthly fee to justify in the slow season.
Straight talk about what it is
The previews are AI-generated visual references — excellent for narrowing choices and seeing whole-house combinations in context, but screens shift color and so does afternoon light. Your customer should still test physical samples on the actual wall before you order paint. The tool says this too, right in the app, because overselling accuracy is how you end up repainting a garage door for free.
Works with Paint Pals — or on its own
If you run the Paint Pals estimating software, the visualizer plugs into your estimates and your team signs in with the same account. If you don't, it works completely standalone — buy credits, start previewing today, no other commitment.
Built by a painting contractor with 15 years in the trade — the same shop that builds the Paint Pals estimating software.