Recolor Android, down to the last shade.

Pick any seed color, tune saturation and lightness, or override individual palette shades. ColorBlendr applies it system-wide on Android 12 and up, at runtime, with no reboot.

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This page runs the app's color engine.

Every surface here is derived on the fly with Material Color Utilities, the same pipeline ColorBlendr runs on your device. Pick a seed, a Monet style, or a color spec and the whole page re-derives.

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What it changes.

Each pair is the same screen twice: the palette Android ships with, and the palette the seed above is producing right now.

Any seed, any source

Generate palettes from your wallpaper, pick from basic colors, or dial in an exact hex. Everything previews live before it touches the system.

Android default

Your seed

Sliders that go further

Accent saturation, background saturation, and background lightness, from 0 to 200%, set per light and dark mode in CAM16 color space.

Sliders untouched

Accent 200%, background 175%

Per-shade overrides

Press any shade in any palette row and set it to whatever you want. The whole system follows, one shade at a time.

Derived shades

Slot 500 overridden

Monet styles

Tonal Spot, Vibrant, Expressive, Rainbow, Fruit Salad, Monochrome and more, plus color spec 2021, 2025, or 2026 on supported builds.

Monochrome

Fruit Salad

Dark mode, properly

Pitch black backgrounds for AMOLED, tinted text, and separate configurations for light and dark mode.

Dark

Pitch black

Backup and restore

Sliders, overrides, saved styles: everything you set up exports to a single file and comes back with one import.

One file, everything in it

The app, as it ships.

Built in Jetpack Compose with Material 3 Expressive. The app previews every change in its own UI before you apply it to the system.

Colors screen: wallpaper and basic seed colors above the full tonal palette grid — Seed and palette

Theme screen: saturation and lightness sliders with a live preview — Saturation and lightness

Styles screen: the list of Monet style presets, Tonal Spot selected — Monet styles

Settings screen: service switch, accurate shades, pitch black theme, custom primary color and tint text options — Switches and overrides

Three ways in. Root gets everything.

Any Android 12+ device with Material You works. Root registers overlays directly; Shizuku and Wireless ADB write the system's theme settings through a shell-privileged helper.

Root

Fabricated overlays register directly with the system's overlay service, so palette changes land instantly. The full engine: sliders, per-shade overrides, pitch black, per-app themes.

Grant root once

Shizuku

No root required. A helper process at shell privilege writes the system's theme customization settings directly.

Start Shizuku after each boot

Wireless ADB

The same shell-privilege path, negotiated on-device over the ADB TLS protocol. Useful where Shizuku isn't installed; no computer needed after pairing.

Pair once over Wi-Fi

Every mode recolors the whole system and keeps your theme across reboots. Root adds the fine-tuning.

Capabilities by access mode. Every mode supports wallpaper and manual seed colors, live preview and Tasker. Root adds every Monet style and the fine-tuning controls.
Capability	Root	Shizuku	Wireless ADB
Seed color from your wallpaper	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pick any seed color	Yes	Yes	Yes
Live preview in the app	Yes	Yes	Yes
Tasker integration	Yes	Yes	Yes
Monet styles	All, plus custom styles	Most	Most
Saturation and lightness sliders	Yes, 0 to 200%	No	No
Per-shade overrides	Yes, 11 per row	No	No
Pitch black, tinted text, accurate shades	Yes	No	No
Custom secondary and tertiary colors	Yes	No	No
Color spec version	2021, 2025, 2026	No	No
Per-app theming	Yes	No	No
Community themes	Browse, vote, apply	Browse and vote	Browse and vote

Themes from other users.

Browse, vote, and apply palettes people have shared, right inside the app. Hover a card and the page wears it. Tap a card to open it in the gallery.

Browse the full gallery

Questions.

How does it work without root?: Shizuku and Wireless ADB modes run shell commands that write the documented theme_customization_overlay_packages secure setting. It's the same mechanism the stock wallpaper picker uses, with more of its fields filled in.
How does it work with root?: Root mode uses the FabricatedOverlay API to register palette overlays with the system at runtime. Nothing is written to the system partition; removing a theme is the same operation as applying one.
Why doesn't it fully work on OneUI?: OneUI system apps use Samsung's own palette instead of Material You. ColorBlendr's changes reach Google apps and everything else that honors Monet, but not OneUI's system UI.
Why are some features grayed out?: They need either a newer Android version or root. Sliders, per-shade overrides, pitch black, and applying community themes are root-mode features; a badge in the app tells you which is which.
Is sharing a theme anonymous?: Yes. There's no account and no sign-up. Only the palette plus the name and description you type are submitted, and a person reviews every submission before it appears.
How do I uninstall it cleanly?: Turn off the ColorBlendr service in the app's settings, then uninstall and reboot. Your device returns to its stock wallpaper-derived colors.

Get ColorBlendr

Free and open source under GPL-3.0, for any Android 12 or newer device with root, Shizuku, or Wireless ADB.

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