Project

TraceCam

An AR tracing overlay for learning to draw. Pick an image from your photo library, point your iPhone camera at a blank sheet of paper — and the image shows through over the paper as a translucent layer. All that is left is to trace it with a pencil.

Features

  • Overlay any image from your library on top of the live camera view
  • Smooth opacity control from 10% to 90%
  • Line it up with the paper by gesture: pinch to scale, drag to move, two fingers to rotate
  • Lock the image so you cannot nudge it while tracing
  • Reset the position with one button
  • The screen stays awake while you draw
  • The control panel folds away so it does not cover the paper
  • Portrait and landscape — the overlay stays on the paper when you turn the phone
  • A dark interface that does not glare over the page
  • English and Russian

Free, no ads, no accounts and no sign-up. The app never goes online: the camera feed is not recorded, not saved and never transmitted anywhere. Requires iOS 17+.

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