Cosmos
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveVisual bookmarking and discovery: search images by colour or likeness and save them into shared collections
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $8/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Free to use. The iOS listing shows a Cosmos monthly subscription at $8.00 and a yearly one at $72.00; the web site links no readable pricing page, so the tier contents could not be checked.
Use tool ↗About Cosmos
Cosmos is a place to collect visual references and find more like them. You can search by keyword, by colour or by an image itself, save from the web through a Chrome extension, and build collections that other people can add to. It keeps source attribution on saved images and lets you show, blur or hide images flagged as AI-generated, the feature its audience of designers and art directors talks about most. A newer Shop section links saved items to products from brands. It runs on the web and iOS, free to use, with an optional subscription sold in the app. The company is Cosmos Entity, INC. of New York.
- Platforms
- Web · iOS · Chrome extension
- API
- Not confirmed
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Home page: search by colour, find similar images, show/blur/hide AI-flagged images, collaborative collections, save from anywhere, and a Shop section with brand products (15 October 2026)cosmos.so ↗
- iOS listing: seller Cosmos Entity, INC.; in-app purchases Cosmos Monthly Subscription $8.00 and Yearly $72.00; version 2.61.0 released two days earlier (15 October 2026)apps.apple.com ↗
- Save to Cosmos browser extension linked from the home page (15 October 2026)chromewebstore.google.com ↗
- Legal name Cosmos Entity, INC. with a New York, NY, US address in the page structured datalink.cosmos.so ↗
Is Cosmos legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Amazon, valid until Dec 29, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2022The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- Cosmos Entity, INC., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Cosmos
The best-behaved of the Pinterest alternatives for people who actually work in visuals: colour and image search are precise, attribution survives the save, and the AI-content filter is a real toggle rather than a promise. It stays free for the core loop. The gap is on the professional side, with no API and no easy bulk export.
Pros
- Search by colour, keyword or an uploaded image, all in one field
- Keeps artist and source attribution on saved images
- Filter that hides AI-generated content from the feed
- Shared and collaborative collections, free on both web and iOS
Cons
- The web pricing page renders client-side only, so plan contents are hard to compare
- No API for exporting or syncing a library elsewhere
- No Android app listed alongside the iOS one
Best for
- Designers and art directors building reference boards for a brief
- Anyone who wants to search a saved library by colour rather than by tag
- Small teams collaborating on a shared collection of visual references
Not for
- Teams needing programmatic access to their own saved assets
- Anyone who wants a documented price breakdown before signing up
Watch out: The only legible prices are the in-app subscriptions on the App Store listing; what the paid tier unlocks is not stated in any fetchable text.
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