Tracer
Anchor any image in AR and trace it by hand, anywhere
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Tracer turns your iPhone into a tracing tool. Pick any image, tap a real surface to anchor it in augmented reality, and trace over it by hand on paper, canvas or a wall. No projector, no light box, no printing. Dial in the opacity, pinch/twist/drag to position, then lock it so your hand can rest on the phone. The screen stays awake and Tracer remembers your reference between sessions. No servers, no analytics, no accounts, no photo library permission. First 5 images free, then $9.99/year.
PH · launched Sep 17, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: digital painting and drawing software · 68 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▲ +80% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Art
- Augmented Reality
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More like this: all 68 launches in digital painting and drawing software →
Could you build this?
Yes It uses Apple's standard ARKit framework (ARPlaneDetection and raycasting) to anchor a UI image with an opacity slider on a detected surface.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 655 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #569 of 656 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
- AR Sketcher · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Scan Via Cam · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- ClimbCam · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Capture · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- ScrollOCR · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Teleprompter: Read to Camera · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Spent · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Scan or describe it. Get a 3D print · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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