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The Paintviz alternative to ColorSnap

Paintviz is built for residential painting contractors who close more jobs by showing the finished look during the estimate — not just matching a color chip.

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What you get with Paintviz

Why painters who switch from ColorSnap stick with us.

Built for the painter workflow, not homeowner exploration

ColorSnap is a free homeowner app. Paintviz is the contractor's tool: render during the estimate, send share links after the bid, see every homeowner's renders organized by client in your dashboard. The homeowner experience is similar; the painter experience is what's different.

Lead capture on every render

Drop a Paintviz share link with lead capture turned on, generate a QR code, print it on your door hangers, postcards, and yard signs. Or embed the visualizer on your painting business website. Every render captures the homeowner's email, photos, and the colors they tried. ColorSnap saves renders to the homeowner's account, never to the painter who sent them there.

Lighting-aware rendering, not just exact-match

Most paint visualizers (including ColorSnap) stamp the literal D65 reference value of a paint color onto every pixel of the wall. That's an exact match, and it's exactly wrong for real-world lighting. Paintviz's render model adjusts for the lighting in the customer's actual photo so the same Hale Navy looks different in a north-facing dining room than on a sunlit south exterior. The render captures what the wall will actually look like.

Multi-user dashboard organized by client and project

Estimators, sales reps, and the owner all log in from their own phone or laptop. Every render saves to one shared dashboard, organized by client. Look back at any homeowner, any house, any color decision. ColorSnap doesn't give the painter a record at all because it's not their account.

Real Sherwin-Williams palette plus 11 other paint brand libraries

Paintviz ships the actual Sherwin-Williams palette (Naval, Pure White, Tricorn Black, Hale Navy, the full spec library) and 11 more paint brand libraries: Benjamin Moore, Behr, PPG, Dunn-Edwards, Farrow & Ball, Valspar, Hallman-Lindsay, Richards Paint, Colorhouse, Dutch Boy, and Kilz. One tool covers every job, regardless of which brand you spec.

Webhooks into your CRM (Zapier or direct)

Paintviz fires three signed webhook events on every lead: lead_created, lead_updated, render_created. Pipe them through Zapier into JobNimbus, ServiceTitan, HubSpot, GoHighLevel, or hit the webhook directly from any system that listens for HTTP POST. ColorSnap doesn't fire webhooks because it's not a contractor tool.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What's the difference between Sherwin-Williams ColorSnap and Paintviz?+

ColorSnap is a free homeowner-facing app from Sherwin-Williams. It lets a homeowner upload a photo of a room or wall and try SW colors on it. Paintviz is the painter-facing tool that does the same thing during the estimate but adds the workflow pieces a contractor actually needs: a multi-user dashboard, share links with lead capture, an embeddable widget for your website, QR-code-on-door-hangers lead capture, lighting-aware rendering, and webhooks into your CRM. ColorSnap is great for the homeowner side. Paintviz is the tool the painter uses to close more bids.

Is ColorSnap good for painting contractors?+

It's free and it works, which is the bar Sherwin-Williams set for it. But it's not built for the contractor workflow. There's no way to capture leads when a homeowner uses it, no painter-side dashboard organized by client, no share-link mechanic for sending after the bid, and no embed for your website. Most painting contractors who try to staple ColorSnap onto their estimate flow end up using it as a color reference and switching to a contractor-first visualizer like Paintviz for actual closing.

Can I use Sherwin-Williams colors in Paintviz?+

Yes, the full Sherwin-Williams spec library: Naval, Pure White, Tricorn Black, Hale Navy, Repose Gray, Driftwood Woodscapes, the entire catalog. Pick any SW color in Paintviz and the render uses the actual color value, not a generic AI approximation. Same goes for Benjamin Moore, Behr, PPG, Dunn-Edwards, Farrow & Ball, Valspar, Hallman-Lindsay, Richards Paint, Colorhouse, Dutch Boy, and Kilz.

How is Paintviz more accurate than ColorSnap?+

ColorSnap (like most paint visualizers) renders a paint color by applying its literal D65 reference value to every pixel of the wall. That's accurate as a swatch but inaccurate for the actual room. Real homes have warm tungsten bulbs, daylight-balanced LEDs, north-facing windows, exterior shadow, golden-hour orange. Paintviz's model adjusts for the lighting in the customer's actual photo, so the render captures what the wall will look like in that specific room or exterior, not a flat color sample overlaid on the photo. For a homeowner browsing on a Saturday, exact-match is fine. For a painter spec'ing a $5,000 bid, lighting accuracy is what separates 'looks great on the screen' from 'looks great on the wall.'

Does Paintviz work with non-Sherwin-Williams paint brands?+

Yes. Paintviz ships 12 paint brand libraries (Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore, Behr, PPG, Dunn-Edwards, Farrow & Ball, Valspar, Hallman-Lindsay, Richards Paint, Colorhouse, Dutch Boy, Kilz). ColorSnap is Sherwin-Williams only because it's an SW product. If you spec multiple brands, you need a multi-brand tool.

How much does Paintviz cost compared to ColorSnap?+

ColorSnap is free; Paintviz is $47/mo on the Essentials tier after a 14-day free trial. The math: ColorSnap is free for the homeowner who uses it, but it doesn't generate leads or close more bids for the painter. One closed visualizer lead from a painter's website embed (or a QR code on a door hanger) covers more than eight years of Paintviz Essentials. The 30-day refund-the-first-payment guarantee covers you if it doesn't pay off in your first month.

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