FOR VIDEO COLORISTS

See skin tones drift before your client does.

ToneLoupe is a floating loupe for your Mac. Drag it over any image on screen — your NLE, your photo editor, even a browser — and it reads the pixels underneath in real time. No plugins, no signal chain, no export.

macOS 14+ · Apple silicon & Intel · One-time purchase
ToneLoupe loupe over a face in an editing suite, skin reading yellow — on target

Three reads, one glance

The loupe analyses only the region under it, on the GPU, at up to 30 fps — light enough to leave on all day.

Skin Indicator

Pixels sitting on the vectorscope skin-tone line read yellow. Drift toward green or magenta shows up the moment it happens — on the face itself, not in a corner of your eye.

Exposure Heatmap

Luminance mapped to a false-color scale with the skin target on the yellow band and clipping in red. Ride your key light without leaving the frame.

Live scopes

A vectorscope with the skin-tone line and an RGB parade, reading the loupe region — always the original pixels, never the false color.

Click-through interior — keep grading underneath Lock & opacity Global shortcut Menu bar mode ~3% CPU

On target. Too green. Too pink.

One look at the loupe tells you which — and the scopes tell you by how much.

Private by design

ToneLoupe records nothing, stores nothing and sends nothing anywhere. Frames are analysed on your Mac's GPU and discarded immediately. No accounts, no analytics, no network code — just the Screen Recording permission it needs to read your screen.