Nix Mini 3 Color Sensor Colorimeter - Portable Color Matching Tool - Dust Debris and Splash Resistant (IPX4) - Identify and match paint and digital color values instantly

I purchased this for our design and finishing departments. We are a custom cabinetry shop and 75% of our products are painted. This color matching tool gets exceptionally close and makes great match suggestions from common paint brands in mere seconds. Saves time and money.

I recently removed some wall-mountain curtain rods in our bedroom, leaving some good-sized holes in the walls. Filling the holes was no problem, but how 'bout matching the paint? Decided to try the Nix Mini 3, and it absolutely did the trick! You scan your wall, tell the app what paint manufacturer you'd like to use, and it finds the closest match. On your screen (I used an iPad to get a larger view) the app will show you what it 'sees' from your wall, right next to the closest match. If it doesn't look exactly the same, well, try another manufacturer. Once you figure out how it works, the whole process is very, very easy. Unfortunately the Nix can't read sheen, so you have to make your best guess: is the paint flat, eggshell, etc? So that is a downside. I did know what paint had been used in another room (again, 20-year-old paint), so just for fun tried the Nix in there. Nailed it immediately; I'd say it's pretty darned accurate. A few folks have mentioned that their Nix just died after a few months. Evidently if the battery gets low enough, it's game over. So I've put 'charge the Nix' on my list of monthly house to-do list. I'm hoping it'll still be working after a year and a half or so.

UPDATE #2: Back to five stars! The NIX team was wonderful in figuring out what could be wrong. After some back and forth, they sent me a replacement and it connected IMMEDIATELY! There was not a hesitation or lag at all. The last one must have been faulty. And what is also interesting is that when I scanned the same paint sample as before with the last faulty one, this new one came up with totally different color names and options. So, I'm now hopeful it will continue to connect easily and be as accurate as I think it will be. UPDATE: ONE STAR. This device is nearly IMPOSSBLE to connect. It's just ridiculous. It's too bad because when I do get it to connect, it's quite accurate (see below). But, this device is wayyyyyy toooooo difficult to connect and it's really frustrating. I tried turning on and off the bluetooth numerous times, trying to connect it, then restarting the app, over and over and over. TERRIBLE. So, I now give it ONE STAR. I'm surprised how accurate this new version is. I watched a video with someone who grabbed a bunch of random paint samples at a store, brought them home and scanned each of them to see how accurate it was. He found it to be accurate - exactly the paint sample name - 9 out of 10 times. The other time the second choice was the correct paint sample name. I tried the same thing and it was accurate about 90% of the time. What could be the issue in some cases is that the name of the paint may have changed, and it has an old name - or even maybe the samples at the store were outdated. I did notice that it had a bit harder time getting whites exact, which is what the one person in the video also said. But even then, I would definitely recommend this if you're needing to match colors or even see colors out there that you like and want to use somewhere.

Had the original Nix Pro, upgraded to this one. Not much of an upgrade. The app has definitely been made 100x worse and more complex for ZERO real reason. Nothing was wrong with the original app. It works, and as long as you use it to check paint, and don't dive into the settings, should work well for you as well. Wished they kept the old app. It was very user friendly, especially for people like me who aren't professionals, but bought a big house and don't want to repaint all 4700sq ft of it just because the people who worked on it before me didn't color match properly. It has worked well for that. Where this fails is saving colors and by rooms. Every time I try to do that, and I try to do it in what I think is the right way, never can find the swatch I need. So I've resorted to screen cap and using my S24 Ultra's stylus to label the screenshot for the room. Which is super frustrating. Don't get me wrong, the old app was also TERRIBLE at it. It's an annoying product, but if you're like me, like the wall colors in your home, and don't want to repaint the whole room just for patch jobs, or try to eyeball the color with a color swatch (even though I did buy a Sherwin Williams Fan deck of colors). When I did use it, it worked well and was accurate. Only thing it can't tell you is the finish type. Like did they use an "Eggshell", "Flat", or "Satin" on the walls? WHO KNOWS... I'm not experienced enough to differentiate that on feel. It's a niche product for prosumers, annoying to use, but seems accurate. Do love that it has a silly large library of colors to choose from, apparently only if you're in North America or the UK, everywhere else, not so much. I live in the US, so all good there. I recommend it for flippers and first time home owners. Will save you tons of work and money, paying for itself in time. Also this was like 150 or 200 cheaper than the old Nix I bought.

This thing is awesome no more guessing or cutting pieces out of the wall for a color match. Color matched my wall to the exact name of the color I used.

battery issue, even after leaving it plugged in for over 24 hours, it did not charge. so I had to ask for a replacement. The replacement was fully charged after 6 hours, and after 12 hours, it was already drained and had connection issues. I would say look for another option and not the Nix Mini 3. P.S. they charged me $20 restocking fee for their bad product. Stay away from the seller and product. This is the reply I received from Amazon representative "On this occasion, we can't refund the restocking fee because the item arrived in an unsellable condition. Unsellable items are damaged, missing parts, not in the original condition, or have obvious signs of use for reasons not due to an Amazon.com or seller error."

I bought the Nix 3 Mini to help me identify colors of china that I have at home with stuff I might find in antique or thrift stores. You cannot use this device without the 2-star app that Nix provides in the app store (i have an iPhone), so a lot of my complaints revolve around the app (which by extension impacts the usefulness of this product). The first thing I did is scan one of my items and save it. I could set the color name, create a new library, create a new collection, add notes, and save. I was pretty happy with that. What I didn't notice at first was that the application saved the color to "saved colors". Scanning new materials does not match against saved colors. It matches against paints and custom libraries. But the app won't let you create a custom library if all you connect is the Nix 3. Nix sells 3 models on this platform. We know that with the $120 model, we haven't paid Nix enough to unlock the custom library option on their 2-star application. You need to buy the $479 Spectro L or the $1199.99 Spectro 2, which you then need to use on their 2-star app. The Nix 3 Mini is a sales tool for paint manufacturers. I really can't think of anything else to use it for. Other than that, it's likely to sit in a drawer. In summary, them gatekeeping natural, creative uses of colorimeter technology through a cheaply-made mobile app until you buy a far more expensive item is frustrating, tone deaf, and makes me think they really don't respect their customers who buy this device. *Edits I changed the rating to 3 stars. While the app is designed around limiting usefulness at the lower price point, using the Nix Mini 3 to identify paint worked ok. Sample outputs of the Mini 3 can drift slightly across multiple color samples even if the colorimeter isn't moved, but the difference is slight. I also found that the Nix web site says the $479 version CAN save custom color libraries. That doesn't alleviate the frustration with this one though.

Works great and very accurate. Way better than cutting a piece of paint sample and taking it to the big box store to color match. I just take the numbers to them and they mix it up. So much nicer. Very nice product and very easy to set up and use. Had one question on the set up and their customer service responded quickly and answered my question.