Your All-in-one Reference Tool

Refern is a reference collector + reference practice tool + reference organizer + moodboard editor that lets you share your references with anyone and access your references anywhere.

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Why Refern?

Your solution to empower, simplify and share your creative process.

Refern consolidate all your reference practice tool, reference organizer, reference viewer, and moodboard into one, and allows you to share all your references with anyone with just a link.

  • Timed study with your own images

  • Practice drawing hands, gesture, or anything with your own references

    Skip, pause, stop session any time

    Randomly picks image from your collection

    Various time interval and images to study options

  • Organize in a intuitive and logical way

  • Organize using folders, image collections and reference boards

    Robust property editor to label everything at once

    Tag and annotate everything

    • Add name, description, and tags to everything
    • And add a source to Images
  • Find what you need instantly

  • Search using tags or any extra info that you've added

    • Including original file name and file type!

    Search all of your Images, Collections, and Reference Boards all at the same time

    Or search only within your collection

  • Built-in Moodboard Editor

  • Use any images you've collected

    Search images to add to board

    Move images around or scale, rotate, or flip it all you want

    Grayscale or deep fry images with brightness, contrast, and saturation filters

More features that you'll love

🔗 Share with anyone

Just copy the link and you are good to go. Don't worry, viewers can't edit your stuff.

✏️ Image viewer

It has the same features as the moodboard editor (move, rotate, scale, flip, and filters)

💪 Uncompressed

All your image are not compressed so you can view them at the original quality. Original image are never modified and downable at anytime.

👌 Easily add images

Click on any image with refern capturer. to instantly save images from the web, or copy paste images, select from desktop, or drag and drop from web pages.

Ready to power up your creative process?

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Community Discord

Where you can report bugs, give suggestions, keep up with updates, or talk about anything!

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Creator's notes

Hey there, thanks for checking out refern and I hope it can help you solve your problems!
I'm Jackson, a university student from Ontario, Canada. I been drawing since 2019.
You can find my art @jaks024 or learn more about me at my website at https://jacksony.me/.
Refern has been a passion project of mine for about a year now based on my own problem, and I'm happy to finally release it for everyone to use!
I have a lot of big things planned for the future like collaboration, explore page, and many more, so stay tuned for many things to come! 

Questions? Please contact me through the community Discord or through my email: jacksonye24@gmail.com