WheelPickV2: Pick exact colors instead of describing them to AI

Hi Product Hunt! 👋

I’m an indie maker from Japan, working under the name TINMOON.

WheelPickV2 started with a small irritation. While working with ChatGPT and Claude, I kept typing things like “a little more blue” or “just slightly brighter.”

Color is exact. Language often isn’t.

So I built a tool that lets me pick the exact pixel, fine-tune the color, and paste the value instead.

WheelPickV2 combines:

🎯 A magnified eyedropper for pixel-accurate picking
🎨 A color wheel for hue, saturation, and brightness adjustment
📋 HEX, RGB, and HSL values ready to copy
🌗 Nearby and full-range brightness variations
🕘 Color history and configurable quick copy
⌨️ Hotkeys, system tray access, and startup launch

The original version was written in Python, and its portable package was about 30 MB. Classic PyInstaller.

I wanted a color picker to pick colors—not occupy dozens of megabytes—so I rebuilt it from scratch with Rust and Tauri.

The current portable ZIP is about 3 MB.

WheelPickV2 works locally and includes no accounts, advertising, telemetry, or network communication. Because a screen-picking tool deserves extra scrutiny, I also uploaded the current executable to VirusTotal:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/f...

And here is my very honest maker roadmap:

Sales from WheelPickV2 are going toward a used Apple Silicon Mac mini. Once I can buy one, developing the Mac version becomes possible. Every purchase moves that version a little closer to reality. 🦀

I’d especially love your feedback on:

- How do you currently communicate exact colors to AI tools?
- Does the pick → tune → paste workflow feel natural?
- What would make WheelPickV2 more useful in your daily work?

Thanks for taking a look!