RefCanvas: Reference Board

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About this app

RefCanvas is an intuitive tool for artists and designers who need a comprehensive reference app to bring their creative vision to life.

Key Features:
- Import images and gifs.
- Notes - Add text notes.
- Move, scale and rotate references to create the perfect layout.
- Multi selection - edit multiple references at one.
- Nodes - Useful for grouping references.
- Drag and drop - Drag and drop files from others apps like the gallery.
- Paste files from the clipboard.
- Supports split screen and pop-up view: Use it as a companion app with your favorite drawing app like Ibis Paint or Infinite Painter.
- Save your progress as boards for future use.
- Auto set thumbnails for boards after saving.
- Eye dropper - Tap and hold to pick a color from your references as a hex code.

Animated GIF support:
- Reference your favorite animated gifs.
- Pause animation and play frame by frame to better understand referenced animations.
- Animation timeline gives you an interactive visual breakdown of all the frames.

Easy to use reference tools:
- Grayscale toggle.
- Flip horizontally and vertically.
- Add link - allows you to visit the source of your reference.


Using RefCanvas to make reference boards & mood boards is easy, simply import your images or gifs, and move them around the canvas to arrange them in the layout that works best for your project. You can adjust their size, rotation and position to your liking, giving you maximum control over your creative process.

Ratings and reviews

This is a great app to have as an artist! The one thing I think it could use, though, is an auto-arriange feature when uploading new photos, so they do not overlap on each other when uploaded, and and automated feature for the people who probably forget to save very often (i.e myself.) Just a quality of life change, that's all.

I love this app and use it heavily. It's drastically improved my work by making references and inspiration easily available. Be aware that it can get a bit glitchy when you have too many pics in a single file, probably in part because they seem to be full resolution.

My go to reference app on android, it's similar to vizref/pureref. There is a pro version that allows more than 10 images to be imported and some features are still in development but the free version has worked fine for me so far. Haven't ran into any ads either, excellent work devs, keep it up!

What's new

Added Nodes - nodes adjust their size automatically to fit near references.
-Nodes have a title and description (optional).
-Nodes move their contents when moved.

Links in notes are highlighted and clickable.
References can have links now - link is auto assigned when dropped from certain websites.

Some improvements and new settings.