Tracer! Lightbox drawing app
The default app is a white screen with a brightness control setting. Place your reference picture over the device and begin tracing. Great for tracing drawings and fonts, making stencils, children's colouring sheets, connect-the-dot's puzzles, etc.
You use the app to search for image references from the internet (using keywords or URL links), or an image from the device storage, or take a photo from the camera.
There is a lock button which will maximize the drawing space, and prevent the device from sleeping.
Features include: -
- a handy color adjust to change the gray-scale of the picture for better tracing contrasts.
- pan, rotate, zoom the drawing references.
- button to toggle rotate on and off
- buttons to save and share the drawing references for the future.
The app is suitable for artists, students, children and their parents as well as casual users of all ages to do art and craft.
There is a wide range of uses for Tracer! app including: -
- traditional cell art animation and tracing
- calligraphy and font tracing (e.g. to transfer fonts onto posters and paintings)
- making stencils (e.g. for Halloween pumpkin carving; graffiti and spray painting art; Christmas snow stencils; cake decorating stencils)
- outline tracing for children (e.g. for children colouring activity; making connect-the-dots puzzles; practise writing letters and numbers)
- base template (e.g. underlay basic perspectives for drawing architectural structures like buildings; underlay simple shapes to draw more complicated art pieces)
Category : Art & Design
Reviews (28)
Good app! Initially I was skeptical because of the low rating, but after using it, i like it a lot. The rotation, zoom and movement lock function is very easy to use. This app deserve a 5 star for me simply because it works as it should.
So you can't just decrease the size of the image, because it just bounces back to its original size. You have to pinch and turn the image to get the decreased image to "stick". Weird. 🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️ Otherwise it seems pretty good.
Was a really wonderful app!! Outstanding, I used it a lot. Now, it doesn't bring up your search results therefore I'm Staring at the app while it thinks for no result. Update: This app is outstanding! I really like this app because I'm able to trace images by searching through the app rather than downloading an image(like most tracing apps) and I really appreciate that compassion you have to the users. This tracing app is wonderful and I will definitely recommend it!!
What a fabulous idea! I think I'll be installing this on every device from now on. I have been trying to trace without something like this for a while! BTW, to anyone who is having struggles with this - it seems to be easier to use if I also lock the screen rotation. Otherwise if you twist wrong, it will reset the image. It would be nice if my zoom/tilt had a number I could replicate if I do lose it, I suppose, or saving the settings themselves. But mostly locking rotation is all that's needed.
While I haven't spent a great deal of time with this app, I did load an image and spent some time checking it out. I think this would be an extremely useful app for it's intended purpose. For instance, no more xeroxing an image and fiddling with contrast settings, trying to get an image that is traceable through regular paper. A lot of thoughtful and practical control to be found within this app. If you have need of a lightbox to trace something, try it. Kudos to the developers. Good Job! 🙂👍
This is the best app on the app store to trace stuff on paper through your phone/tablet. But if you have one of those tablet/phones. That has on screen controls like home and stuff like that it won't lock that. I love that you can zoom in and out of the image. Also was reading the reviews, there's a slight confusion on what you do on here. You just draw images on the screen with paper. Overall this is a really good app and why would you want a image that you can not really see.
Great tracing app! I needed something to turn my Samsung smartphone into a lightbox, because the touchscreen proved to be problematic when tracing over a picture. This app locks the screen so the picture won't resize as your pencil touches the tracing paper. Brilliant! I was prepared to shell out cash for a lightbox, but this suits my needs perfectly for now. Thanks for a great app that actually does what it says!
Great app! Only one I can find that does this. My only improvement request would that the image shows up the same size when you lock it. Right now it shrinks it some percent and puts a white border around it, so it's hard to get the image to be exactly the size you want it to be which is frustrating.
Absolutely perfect for what I needed! I needed some shapes drawn out for jewelry making, and was getting frustrated at my drawing skills! Then I realized my phone is basically a light box, except that the screen responds through paper. Figured there was "an app for that", and voila! Here it is! (And no, this isn't for drawing on your phone. It's a light box- google it before you give a bad rating!) Took me 30 seconds to get what I needed perfectly. Thank you!
It is really a great app. I loved it. The thing is that if the app can save the previous works , it would be really great. As I have to set the same image at same place, size again and again whenever I close the application and reopen it. Hopeful for your concern about it....
It's pretty basic and has a Grayscale option only I wish it had was able to only zoom in or out and not be able to rotate.
Thank God somebody created this app it helps me al lot like my teacher said that we need to draw a map , i was trying so hard to trace it but i couldn't it has impossible so a got this app on Google play store and it showed me this app so I downloaded and now I am done doing that it helped me a lot thanks
Biggest flaw is that there is no way to reset light or settings to original, you have to manually try and find it. Would wish for a "reset all changes" button. Also image is placed Top Left by default, aligned centre center would be preferable. Otherwise it does what it promises, it's a tracing app.
This app really isn't worth using at all. If I could give a 0 star and review I would. On a downloaded photo, just opening and locking it, it is NOT the same size as in the gallery. When you use the preview, and fit it to size and then hit the lock button, it is a different size than the preview. Basically getting something to fit to a scale is impossible. Looking for a different app, because this one is a waste of space.
It is a very good concept but when operating, sometimes, it unlocks spontaneusly and zooms differently as the lock button gets touched. would be nice to lock and unlock from side buttons like screenshoots or something... or maybe if the zoom size could be displayed so once you erronely zoom out you won't struggle on resizing! that would rate a 5 to me!
This is by far my favorite lightbox app!!! You can use pictures online, on your personal account, search images within the app, they even have a FONT app with TONS of usable free font. You can adjust the age size and scale easily the lighting and then ... LOCK IT SO you can't accidentally bump the image messing up the whole thing! Amazing
Id love to give it more stars but this app is very frustrating. If you turn your phone in the locked image position, the image will still flip. When you flip it back, the size and orientation of the image changes. Accidentally turning your phone will ruin the image.
Not sure what this is supposed to do, just turned my image into greyscale coloring. No tracing or drawing or projecting. Useless
Ok so it worked really good at first, but then I deleted it and re-downloaded it because i decided I needed it. But after I downloaded it it wouldn't let me search up pictures in order to trace. So I can't use it, the dumb thing just sits there spinning it's wheels while I am sitting there waiting for it to load my pictures. I would suggest if you really are going to download it then do it and don't ever try to re download it or it won't work. Please try to fix this problem. Thank you.
Really great app. The only thing 2 things that would make it better would be combining this with the font lightbox into 1 app. And having an option to put a grid on the screen to help you measure & match what your're tracing if you have to move the picture around.
Description of the app should include that this app is only for tracing with real paper from your phone. Took me forever to realize that while trying to draw on the picture digitally. 3 stars because I think it would be good for tracing onto real paper, but I was looking for a digital tracker and this app doesn't do that.
Great for tracing image of something and allows brightness adjustment and resizing.
This App is the greatest.. its the beyond incredible, I been tattooing since 2002 and I think back how much time it would have cut out having to draw up a piece of flash..something that i believe would make it even more useful is to have its own search engine for different tattoo designs but overall I give it 5*..💯👍✍😎
WHY. Check out ARTflo that app is extremely useful and friendly. I can't do anything with your app but monochromatic and black and white. And people don't need a app to light up the back of the paper to draw. Sorry I was really hoping it would be awesome.
Really like this app. The built in search engine is the best part. However i cannot open anything from my gallery. It just returns me to white screen and nothing happens when i open it. So the only way it works is the search engine. Please fix it.
Has been very helpful in my small art projects. My only complaint is there isn't a scale hold/percentage. When the image to big for my phone sometimes moving it changes the size, hard to line it back up.
My only complaint is If you search for images thru the app, the website won't clear the screen AT ALL. SOOOO I end u up going to the site, screenshot the very same image, saving, then go back to the app. some wasted time but does what I need it too!!!
Dope app does what it says locks pics on your phone to trace. Helps if your a artist or a tattooer who doesn't want to run to the printer and waste ink on a small stencil and resize ect . 4/26/22 new issue arose, some images are blurry or you can't see them even with the greyscale and brightness turned up.