Colors Live is a digital painting game and creative platform for Nintendo Switch, designed to turn the console into a portable art studio. Its accessible interface is intended to be quick to learn, while offering a range of brushes and tools for artists at different skill levels. Players can work with up to ten layers on canvases as large as 2560 by 1980 pixels, use features such as blending, opacity controls, an eyedropper and undo, and export finished images or timelapse videos to the Switch image gallery.

The game is bundled with the pressure-sensitive Colors SonarPen, which is designed for natural-feeling painting and works without batteries or Bluetooth. Colors Live also includes Colors Quest, a daily painting challenge that encourages users to build their skills and progress over time. Through the Colors Live online community, artists can share work, connect with others and explore millions of community-created paintings with playback.