United StatesVizRef for iPad enables creatives to finally take their inspiration anywhere. It becomes the perfect companion app for Procreate® or paired with your favorite drawing/animation application by utilizing iPad IOS multitasking features. Clear up your hard to find hidden layers in your drawing app and easily organize your inspiration on the go. Make visual reference boards with any images or gifs from web browsers, cloud storage, photos, screen captures and more. The first mood board creation app made by artists for artists, that brings comprehensive referencing tools to animators and visual artists/en. We are dedicated to bringing creatives what they need most in being inspired everywhere they go. HIGHLIGHTS -Perfect companion app paired with Procreate® Adobe Fresco ® Clip Studio Paint® Infinite Painter® etc. by utilizing iPad IOS multitasking features -Supports many image types including GIF -Drag and drop from web -Batch Import from Photos app -Batch Export images from boards to cloud storage using Files app - *Multi-Select and auto pack images for a quicker workflow * -Import High-Resolution images with HD toggle _*Focus on whats importing with Focus mode. ( rotate imageboard ) -Batch Import from iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive with split-screen -Quick and responsive visual reference board experience -Easy to use/ minimal UI -Light mode and Dark mode -Set thumbnails for reference boards to visually organize your inspiration ANIMATED GIF SUPPORT -Reference your favorite animated gifs -Pause animation and play frame by frame to better understand referenced animations -Advanced animation timeline gives you an interactive visual breakdown of all frames EASY TO USE REFERENCE TOOLS -Crop images to optimize screen space and view more references -Greyscale toggle for images for value reference -Flip horizontally and vertically -Rotate Images -Copy-paste images into other apps Artwork and animation credits @_Artazi @_baomii @_Deadslug_ @amnesiapancake @barachan @belgeist @criisalys @ergo.josh @evan_monteiro @gloomwastaken @mrbeezul @onemegawatt @rocketboiART @samuelyounart @cobalt_requin VizRef was created by Max Gonzalez and RoboWorld Entertainment with supporting development from Valere Labs
App needs some work
I would rate this higher if the app didn’t charge anything, but it’s nice that it’s not subscription-based! I liked this app initially, it helped clear out my photo album and the image quality isn’t affected much when uploaded. But, I noticed a huge problem w photos getting lost whenever I loaded a board, especially one w a lot of images on it. Sometimes they’d re-upload if I restarted the app, but then another group of images would get lost in their place. The app also crashes sometimes and loses images after, but it’s not very often. The app hasn’t been updated for 2 yrs still, but I’d rly love to see these in the app as well: multi-selection w/in a board would be great to help better organize different references, text box/ sticky notes option, greater range for image rotation, basic drawing pen feature similar to the annotation option in the iPhone photos/ notes app. Any other features that could help enhance mind-mapping in the app would be perfect.
United StatesGood but abandoned. . .
Hasn’t been updated in two years. Their twitter is no longer posting updates. . . Cannot have folders for your boards. No Webm support. Need to multi select images within boards. It’s not infinite images, if too many images inside it will crash. . . Unlike other apps. But it’s a good app. Just needs to be updated and seems like it’s abandoned. If you like to buy abandoned apps, then get this, if you like updates and new features try something else.
United StatesIf you guy add
I will like if vizref can select multiple of images to move around.
United Statesthis app is a game changer for artists
this app is simply amazing. i just hope one day we’ll be able to write notes on these boards, that would be incredibly useful. love this app :)
United StatesGreat, but lack of mouse support
Been using this for a year or two now and it’s been really great on my iPad, however when I try to use it on a second screen with stage manager it seems there are no keyboard shortcuts or ability to use with a mouse. This is a let down because I’m sure you can obviously see the utility of having a second screen for references while I’m working. Hopefully this can be added with a simple update in the future, otherwise great job!
United StatesGreat app, would love more features
Need features such as: - change default board settings (HD res, grid toggle) - copy/move photo(s) from one board to another - create new board from selected photos from within a board - backup boards, sync boards between iPhone and iPad
United StatesIndispensable
Taking a minute out of a busy work schedule with a tight deadline to mention how indispensable this app is for my workflow on the iPad Pro. Just amazing how I can lay out all my reference in one place and pin it to the side in Split View or flip back and forth to it with Command-Tab on my keyboard. I had been doing this with Preview on MacOS for years but that only arranged them vertically; Vizref gives so much more flexibility. Also great for pausing gifs and stepping through them for accurate poses. Only thing I would add is the ability to slow down gif playback; when I upgraded to the M2 iPad the faster processor made my gifs comically fast! Otherwise loving VizRef and hope it stays around for a while. Would love a desktop version!
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NEW FEATURES in 1.1.7 Exporting- Fixed some bugs related to exporting. Some of the UI was unresponsive when hitting export within the app. This was most likely due to some newer IOS versions that were later released. *** Please keep in mind that exporting/ importing directly into other apps such as Dropbox or even using Airdrop and Discord all work completely differently because of how those apps are created. We, unfortunately, can not improve much on batch exporting/ importing into these apps unless those developers improve how their apps deal with multiple images being imported or passing through them. For batch exporting images, I still recommend hooking up Dropbox/ Google Drive to the files app on your iPad and just batch exporting through the files app from Vizref. Please also keep in mind that batch exporting hundreds of images at once will most likely crash Vizref. This is also out of our control. I recommend batch exporting about 50 images at once for the most stable and consistent experience. Vizref and other apps can't export hundreds of images at once because every app on the iPad is limited to how much Memory it can use during all operations. The app is crashing because of the hard limit set by Apple for each app. Feature - Revert Button- Revert will undo any cropping or rotating you've done to the image. The main reason for adding the revert button was that some users were finding their images were oddly scaled/ stretched to the wrong ratio. Revert is a backup for returning your image to the correct ratio/ scaling - the revert button is located in the toolbox icon at the bottom right after selecting an image. - Exporting gif files. Should work now give it a try! *Bug Fixes* -Fixed a bug that caused images from your board to not display if your board crashed on exporting. This bug should be completely gone. If it persists after updating your app please contact us at [email protected] **If your images have disappeared from your board, please note that those images are still on you iPad and stored locally. You can retrieve them by going to the Files app then searching for your Vizref folder in " On My iPhone " or " On My iPad" file Open "Private Documents" then you will see each .VRB file. These are your reference boards and store your images locally. You can then retrieve your images here. Fixed some crash bugs. Fixed several UI inconsistencies and bugs.
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