X-rite Colormunki Smile

£90/$99

www.xritephoto.com

The Colormunki Smile is child’s play to use, thanks to software that trades advanced options for clarity. Its full-screen interface is easy on the eye, and only a few buttons stand between you and calibration.

Options enable you to change calibration reminder frequency and set the calibration to suit standard or Led-backlit monitors. Everything else is fixed, though judging by the colour profile generated by the Smile, it uses a standard 6500 K colour temperature target.

Like Datacolor’s Spyder5 Express, calibration takes just over five minutes; once it was complete, our test monitor was corrected of its default green colour cast. Checking the Smile’s colour profile reveals a respectable average Delta-e colour accuracy of 2.0.

Pros Delightfully simple to use; good colour accuracy Cons Not the most accurate device on test; very limited options available We say

Great in its simplicity, but is just about beaten by the Spyder 5 Express Overall score