Digital image colorimetry (DIC) on smartphone is regarded as a powerful, fast and low-cost analysis method to measure target analyte with color changes of digital image obtained by the built-in camera. We summarized the basic procedure of DIC, the color spaces (RGB, CMYK, HSB/HSL, CIE XYZ, L*a*b*, and YUV), the principal architectures (tools for capturing image, lighting conditions, and color quantification APPs and DIC APPs), and current status of DIC on smartphone in analysis of metals/heavy metals, herbicides, pesticides, antibiotics, biolog...