Reference Board
Infinite Canvas for your ideas
70 followers
Infinite Canvas for your ideas
70 followers
Reference Board is a native mood board app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Collect images, videos, quotes, and notes on an infinite canvas, with iCloud sync across devices. Search goes beyond filenames with Apple Intelligence, generated descriptions, tags, colors, and visual feel. Private by design. Simple on the surface. Quietly powerful underneath.
I built Reference Board because I wanted a native mood board app that felt simple, elegant, and out of the way.
Most tools either pile on features or turn the whole process into admin. I wanted something that keeps the focus on the content, syncs across devices, stays private, and quietly does the helpful work in the background with auto-tagging, generated descriptions, and metadata.
No subscription. No clutter. Just a better place to collect and shape inspiration.
It’s still early, and I’d love feedback. If there’s a feature you wish existed, tell me.
Congrats on the launch, this looks amazing 🙌
Do you have any plans for a safari/browser extension to automate adding from web? For example I now use Pinterest for gathering inspiration and have boards like this there, but it'd be nice to have a board locally to reference since the app just works faster, so something like an "Add to board" feature would be amazing 🙂
@curiousigor That’s such a good idea. A browser extension (Safari with Chrome coming soon) is already part of the app, and I definitely have bigger plans for it.
Pinterest board support is a really interesting direction too. Bringing that kind of inspiration into Reference Board in a smart way feels very aligned with where I want to take it. I just need to look into what Pinterest allows so I can do it in the right way and stay within their terms.
Also, I’m shipping a new version later today with YouTube support, so you’ll be able to copy and paste YouTube videos directly into your boards.
Thanks again for sharing this. I really appreciate it.
@maya_elor At this stage, it’s mostly about organize inspiration, but there are already some fun ways it can help spark new ideas too.
You can search across your images and videos by things like color or topic, then pull those results into new boards. And the widget can resurface saved inspiration on your desktop or home screen, which is a nice way to rediscover things you haven’t seen in a while.
Reference Board 1.5 is here, and it’s the biggest update I’ve shipped so far.
Reference Board started as a simple idea: a private place to collect the visual things that inspire you. Images, videos, websites, colors, type, screenshots. Everything in one place, without turning inspiration into another complicated workflow. With 1.5, I wanted to make it much easier to experience that idea.
Reference Board is now free to get started.
You can create up to 3 boards and add 100 items for free. No need to decide if it’s for you before you’ve actually had a chance to use it.
But there’s another big change.
Until now, your boards lived with you. With Pro, you can now publish a board to the web and share it with anyone.
A moodboard for a client. References for a project. A collection for your team. Or simply something you’ve made that you want other people to see.
Your private workspace can now become something you share.
And for existing paid users: you’ve automatically been upgraded to Pro.
There are a bunch of smaller improvements in 1.5 too, including a much better way to pick and save individual frames from videos.
I’m building Reference Board because I wanted a faster, calmer place for visual thinking. With 1.5, it finally feels like that place can extend beyond just yourself.
Would love to hear what you think.