RefTake

Capture acting reference for animators: record with your template overlaid on the live camera, then auto-split takes to rate, tag, and export—all on one device.

Play your voice recording and film yourself acting it out — all on one iPhone.

RefTake is made for animators who act out their shots — record your reference, auto-split it into takes, review, and export.

You know how shooting reference usually goes: your computer plays the voice recording while your phone films you, so you're stuck juggling two devices. Then comes the scrubbing — back and forth through that one long recording or digging through millions of short recordings, hunting for the take you actually want. And before it's any use, you're bouncing through another app just to get a format your 3D software will accept. RefTake pulls all of it into one workflow — just shoot, review, and export, all on the same device.

CAPTURE

• Drop your storyboard on screen while you film, and drag it wherever it's easiest to work from as a guide.
• Play your audio through the speaker or your headphones so you can hit your timing, blocking, and movement.

ORGANIZE

• Lay things out like a real production: project, sequence, shot.
• Tag and note your takes so you actually remember which was which.
• Keep your reference footage out of your camera roll — it lives in RefTake, separate from your family photos and videos.

REVIEW & RATE

• Auto-split one long recording into separate takes so you can flip through and find the keeper faster.
• Give each take 1 to 5 stars, and swipe or tap through them as you review — star the good ones and filter out the rest.

EXPORT & SHARE

• Export takes as MOV video, or as JPEG or PNG image sequences.
• Export PNG sequences with the background removed — cleaner to animate over, and easy to drop into a comp.
• Name your exports however you work: project, sequence, shot, take, tag, and note — no more “IMG_####.mov" clips.

PRIVACY & SECURITY

• Background removal happens right on your device — your footage never leaves your phone.
• Your projects and footage stay on your device. We don't track you or collect your personal data.

RefTake is free to download, and includes all capture, organization, editing, and review features. The one catch on the free plan is exporting: pick an Active Shot and export its takes as much as you want, then switch to a new one every 30 days.

RefTake Pro drops the export limit for good, across every shot and project — monthly, annual, or a one-time buy.

Built for animators — and anyone who works from reference.

Terms of Use(EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/