ArtDeck: Reference Board

Snap a texture, save a link, drop in a video: keep every visual reference in one place, on all your devices, with study tools built in. One purchase, yours to keep.

ArtDeck lets you collect references, create moodboards, and study images. Add images, video, links, and notes to a board, then analyze value, color, composition, and motion in the same space.

Everything stays together instead of scattered across screenshots, folders, and closed tabs.

Start a board on any device and pick it up on another. It's available everywhere, kept up to date through your iCloud.

CAPTURE NOW, USE IT ANYWHERE

See a texture, a color combination, or a striking composition while you're out? Take a photo right inside ArtDeck and drop it on a board. Because your boards sync, it's there on your Mac and iPad, ready next to your design, 3D, or drawing tools.

COLLECT FROM ANYWHERE

• Shoot photos and video on iPhone and iPad; on Mac, take the photo with the webcam or your iPhone • Import from Photos or Files • Scan a document on iPhone or iPad, or use Continuity Camera on Mac • Save any link as a card, or paste a link to an image, video, or PDF to import it • Drag and drop, paste, or use the Share menu from any other app • Opens all common image formats, plus WebP, AVIF, JXL, HDR, EXR, and SVG. Video, GIFs, and PDFs up to 300 pages • HDR images and video at full brightness on capable screens, for the whole app or per board

STUDY WHAT YOU COLLECT

Study any image or video frame through the ToolBox's five lenses, without touching the original: • Values: grayscale, a value ladder, and Notan to read your darks and lights • Color: pull a palette from any image, or see its temperature and saturation zones • Composition: overlay grids, test new framings, or check the symmetry • Read: simplify to the big shapes, find where detail piles up, follow the edge hierarchy • Measure: drop plumb lines, read an angle off a snapping guide, and compare two lengths

An Analysis panel beside any lens reads value range, histogram, hue and saturation, plus the color distribution. Export a study, or keep a copy on your board.

Step through GIFs and video frame by frame, with onion skin and a GIF filmstrip

ANNOTATE AND DRAW

• Mark up an image, or draw directly: pen, highlighter, and shapes • Draw a stroke, then hold at the end to straighten it

ARRANGE IT YOUR WAY

• An infinite canvas to drag, scale, rotate, and zoom • Snap to objects and grid; align, distribute, and tidy up • Group and nest, reorder, lock, with undo and redo

YOUR BOARDS, EVERYWHERE

• The same boards on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, synced through your iCloud • Works fully offline: sync catches up when you're back online • Choose which boards sync • Split View and Stage Manager on iPad • Keep your window on top of the others on Mac

YOUR GALLERY

• Carousel and grid views of every board • Labels and multi-label filtering • Favorite, archive, rename, or duplicate any board

MAKE IT YOURS

• Dark, light, and high-contrast themes • Set one theme for the whole app, or one per board • An editor to fine-tune the colors and create your own themes • Import and export themes by file or link

ACCESSIBILITY

• VoiceOver support across the app, including items on the canvas • Respects Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion • A theme editor that checks color contrast and flags colors that are hard to tell apart

EXPORT AND HAND OFF

• Export a whole board or just a selection • PNG, JPEG, HEIC, or PDF, up to 8K, with a transparent background where the format allows • Save a whole board as one .artdeck file to back up or hand off

TRY IT FREE, KEEP IT FOR LIFE

Start with a free, individual 7-Day Trial. It does not renew. Lifetime Access is a one-time in-app purchase, not a subscription. No separate ArtDeck account is required.

Keep what catches your eye.