Choosing a paint color for your home can be nerve-racking. You can spend hours in the paint section comparing swatches and trying to find the perfect match. Thankfully, a wave of paint-color apps is making the task easier by letting you paint your wall virtually or match a paint color to a photo. Even better, these apps are free and Android- and Apple-compatible. Here are some of the hottest paint apps available.

Color Connect By The app allows you to explore Valspar paint colors available at Lowe's, ACE, or independent retailers. The paint calculator helps you estimate how much paint you'll need for your project. Users can upload photos and get advice from a color consultant via live video, audio, or e-mail. Milk Money Rapidshare. The app also provides how-to videos to help get your project off the ground. What's missing? Two major complaints about this app: You can't save your paint colors, and there's no search, so navigation can be tricky.

ColorSmart By Behr's app comes with an explore-color function that let's you search for a shade by name, number, or color family. The color-match function lets you take a picture or select an existing one from your library, and the app will match that color with an existing Behr color. A notable detail is that you may get different color-match results for the same color sample. Mind you, these colors are extremely similar, but you should always put some on your wall first and look at the real paint color you are trying to match before making a purchase.

The app's preview function allows you to virtually paint a handful of rooms by simply clicking on a color and then the wall you'd like to see the color on. It's handy to see what the paint looks like in a room but tricky because it's not your house and the design elements will be very different. The Behr app also lets you save projects, colors, pallets, and paint calculations so that you can come back to your work later. Filme Spawn O Soldado Do Inferno Dublado. Acronis True Image Home 2014 Activator Full Version. While it's great for exploring color and helping you to start color matching, it doesn't have the ability to personalize the look of the space where you're testing your colors.

Paint My Place is the only app in this roundup that is not connected to a major paint company, so you can explore across three brands: Benjamin Moore, Dulux, and Farrow&Ball. You can take or upload an existing photo of the space you're going to paint, then select the brand and color range and paint it virtually.