Overview
TraceOverlay places a movable, scalable reference image over your device camera so you can trace onto paper. Adjust the overlay while looking through the live camera to practice drawing, painting, or lettering with a reference you can keep aligned.
Features
- Live camera tracing with an adjustable reference overlay
- Move, scale, and filter reference images
- Adjust opacity to keep the paper and reference visible together
- Try the hosted demo without signing up
- Import personal reference images through the product’s unlock flow
Web and native apps
The hosted web app is available at traceoverlay.com. An offline-first Tauri 2 app shares the same tracing module and keeps its studies, fonts, tracing code, and personal-image storage on the device. Native store distribution is a separate release track; the launched status here refers to the public web app.
The native demo includes the live camera, all tracing tools, and a Mona Lisa study. Its one-time Personal Images Unlock adds importing and retaining your own references.
Technology stack
- TypeScript and React
- TanStack Start for the hosted web app
- Tauri 2 for the offline-first native app
- A shared tracing module for camera and reference-image behavior