Gradients.cool
The missing gradient studio for Mac
This is 1 of 138 launches in color palettes and rendering tools — see how it stacks up on momentum and crowding →
338 other launches read as similar to this one →
Details
- External ID
- 1264415
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Gradients.cool
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9124718256949662
- Tags
- Mac, Design Tools, Graphic Design
- Fetched at
- Oct. 3, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 3, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
A native gradient studio for Mac. Start with 120 handcrafted presets or turn an image's colors into an editable mesh. Shape points, layer glass, grain, and blur, then animate your design. Export PNG or WebP stills up to 8K and MP4 loops up to 4K. Everything renders locally, with no account required. Also available on iPhone and iPad, with editable recipes you can move between devices.
Enrichment
- Theme
- color palettes and rendering tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- gradient design tool for mac users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Generating static CSS or canvas gradients is simple, but an 8K still / 4K MP4 native macOS renderer featuring mesh points, layered glass, grain shaders, and smooth animation requires specialized low-level graphics programming.
What it would actually take: This app requires native macOS development using Swift and Apple's Metal API (or Metal Shading Language) to handle real-time mesh deformation, procedural noise, and glass blur at 60+ FPS. Exporting to high-bitrate 8K image files and 4K MP4 loops without memory exhaustion relies on AVFoundation and hardware-accelerated VideoToolbox pipelines.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 338 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #46 of 339 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 337 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Greypaint · ph · 2026-09-27 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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- Friday · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Compositor · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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