Translucent: AR Trace & Draw

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About this app

TRACE ANYTHING ONTO REAL PAPER. YOUR PHONE IS THE LIGHT BOX.

Hold your phone over a sheet of paper and the drawing appears on the page through the screen. Trace what you see. No printer, no carbon paper, no taping a page to a sunny window.

YOUR OWN PHOTOS ARE FREE. FOREVER.
Import any picture from your camera roll, set the opacity, trace it. The light box, zoom, rotate and your own photos are not behind a paywall and never will be. That is the whole point of the app.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Pick a drawing from the library, or import a photo of your own.
2. Hold your phone over your paper, or pin the drawing to the page with AR.
3. Trace the lines you see through the screen.

400 DRAWINGS, 104 OF THEM FREE
Animals, Anime, Architecture, Cartoon, Fantasy, Food, Nature, Objects, People, Tattoo and Vehicles, at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Real line art drawn for tracing, not photos run through a filter.

348 STEP-BY-STEP LESSONS
Every lesson is built out of the drawing itself: big shapes first, then structure, then detail. You watch a face or a dragon assemble one stage at a time instead of copying a finished picture and hoping.

AR ANCHORING
Pin the drawing to your paper and it stays there. Move your phone, tilt it, set it down and pick it up, and the drawing is still exactly where you left it. No more propping your phone against a coffee cup.

EVERY TOOL
- Opacity, zoom, rotate, pan
- Canvas lock, so your palm cannot knock the drawing out of line
- Hands-free mode
- Grid overlay, flip and mirror
- Contrast, brightness and color filters for difficult light
- Torch for tracing in the dark
- Line art: turn a photo of your own into clean traceable outlines
- Layer breakdown: a drawing split into its build-up stages
- Strobe: the reference blinks off so you can see your own lines
- Practice timer and daily streaks
- Time-lapse: record a session and share it
- Floating overlay: trace over other apps
- Kid Mode: the whole library, none of the clutter
- Works offline. No account, no sign-up.

PERFECT FOR
Artists learning proportion and perspective. Anime and manga. Tattoo artists transferring flash. Embroidery, quilting and cross-stitch patterns. Calligraphy and hand lettering. Woodworking and pyrography templates. Classroom and homeschool. Kids learning to draw. Anyone who was ever told they cannot draw.

Tracing is not cheating. Artists have traced for centuries to study proportion and build the hand-eye coordination freehand drawing needs, which is why the lessons here take a drawing apart instead of just showing you the answer.

FREE
- The light box: opacity, zoom, rotate, pan, grid, filters, torch
- Your own photos, unlimited
- 104 drawings
- 3 saved projects, 3 guided lessons, 3 strobe sessions
- Canvas lock, hands-free, AR anchoring, practice timer
- Supported by ads

PREMIUM
- All 400 drawings and all 348 lessons
- Unlimited saved projects
- Unlimited line art, layer breakdown, strobe and floating overlay
- Time-lapse export with no watermark
- No ads

Already bought the Premium Library? You keep it, and you will never be asked to pay again.

PREMIUM PLANS
Premium Weekly - $6.99 per week
Premium Yearly - $39.99 per year, after a 3-day free trial
Premium Lifetime - $69.99, one payment, does not renew

Prices are shown in your own currency before you confirm. Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Cancel any time in Google Play > Subscriptions; cancelling stops the next payment and you keep Premium until the period you have paid for ends. Premium Lifetime is a one-time purchase and never renews.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://aylan-apps.com/privacy/translucent-tracing/terms-of-service
Privacy Policy: https://aylan-apps.com/privacy/translucent-tracing/privacy-policy
Trace drawings onto real paper with your camera. AR light box, 400 drawings.
Updated on
Sep 16, 2026
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  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    Device or other IDs
  • This app may collect these data types
    Financial info, App activity and 2 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • Data can’t be deleted
  • Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

423 reviews
Drexiel Jay Pancho
March 29, 2025
It's simplicity is top notch. It's perfect, unlike other apps, this one just focuses on it's purpose. PERFECT. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Jam Sampayan Dela Tonga
February 10, 2026
It's a good app. although when I was about to use this to trace a drawing since I don't have a printer and I make pins. It kicked me out of the app and when I tried it again, it kicked me out 💔💔
12 people found this review helpful
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Shep
May 15, 2024
Not what i was looking for. I want to display a transparent app over another app so that i can trace a picture on that app. I'm looking everywhere and cant find any app like what i want at all :(
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What’s new

- 400 drawings, 104 of them free, up from 221.
- 348 step-by-step lessons built from the drawings.
- AR anchoring pins the drawing to your paper and keeps it there.
- New: line art from your photos, layer breakdown, strobe, time-lapse.
- New: floating overlay to trace over other apps.
- New: Kid Mode, saved projects, practice timer and streaks.
- Redesigned throughout, now in 31 languages.
- Faster launch, many crash fixes.