Datacolor Spyder - Monitor Calibrator for Graphic Designers, Photographers, and Content Creators, Shows You True Colors, Works on OLED Monitors & LED Screens, Easy-to-Use Color Calibration Tool

Finally I have a simple, accurate and easy to use monitor calibration tool! I've tried the other popular brand the i1 Studio, now owned by Calibrite (previously X-Rite) and found it was inconsistent due to having too many features in one unit. The calibration process was lengthy, complicated and ambiguous, but worst of all the software backward compatibility when X-Rite handed its consumer products to Calibrite resulted in buggy operation. The attempt to force an upgrade to new product was apparent.The Datacolor Spyder, on the other hand is a joy to use, much faster and color/contrast/brightness are all very accurate! After calibrating two side-by-side monitors, the images are almost perfectly identical, and certainly when the are printed out there will be no difference at all. Indeed, I may end up purchasing the Datacolor Print calibrating product, just to simplify and improve printing, which given the price of ink and paper, should pay for itself many times over. All in all, I'm very satisfied with the Spyder product, and the price is very affordable as well.

Easy to use. Did a great job!!!

Easy to use, except you have to download the instructions.

This little gadget is great. I have been wanting it for a few years, but after buying two new matching 27 displays I made this part of the purchase. Love the ability to do a Studio Match where it matches all your displays.You can also of course calibrate one display at a time, and lastly you can analyze your display to see how it’s doing physically.

I have 6 monitors, 5 of them standard wide-gamut LCD and 1 OLED, and this device didn't work on any of them. I spent hours trying to get it to work. When trying to calibrate it would repeatedly crash with a mysterious error message, leaving the profile configured to an extremely incorrect state (e.g. bright green). I had to disable white balance correction to work around that. Even then it produced a different brightness and white balance every time I tried to use it, and it was never correct. It also provided no way to revert the ICC profiles to their original setting after saving it. The multi-monitor features also failed spectacularly, they often would not even render on the correct monitor (they'd place the window across two monitors and partially offscreen), and I wasn't able to complete a multi-monitor calibration even once. On top of that their registration process requires your email address and they provide no means of updating or removing it, which caused us a lot of trouble, we had to email them to request for them to remove it. This device has ruined my life and left me in tears and I sincerely regret ever buying it.

Product nicely packaged. Software installed quickly without any issues. Using a 2023 iMac I attempted to connect the Spyder into a USB-C port directly on the computer. Didn't recognize it. Tried a different port. Didn't recognize it again. After 20 minutes of playing with ports and software, I put on the USB-C to USB-A adapter and it worked. Ran the software to create a profile without any issues. Very minimal difference in the screen correction from my "done by eye" profile. (I wanted to see if I could get a more accurate profile for my photography work). After I selected my original profile to compare, I switched back to the Spyder profile and it crashed my computer. Spent 4 hours rebuilding my drive from a Time Machine backup only to have it crash again. Sending it back. Even if it didn't crash, I don't feel that $250 is a good value for this - way over priced.

As described. Easy to install.

Easy to use, works great and one of the best I have ever used