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ARTrace
iOS · macOS · visionOS
Your phone. Your pencil.

ARTrace — AR Drawing and Tracing App. Trace
anything
onto real paper.

ARTrace overlays any image onto your sketchbook through your phone camera. 1000+ templates, photo-to-sketch, AI generation — all in one app.

Download on the App Store
A rose drawn from an ARTrace template, on real paper
Hand-traced rose sketch on paper
traced in 14 minutesAR TEMPLATE
What’s inside

One app.
Six ways to draw.

Whether you sketch from imagination, photos, or pure AI — ARTrace gives you the right tool for the moment.

FLAGSHIP

AR Tracing

Project any image onto paper through your phone camera. The overlay locks to your page — move, tilt, redraw.

Phone resting on a glass tripod over a sketchbook — the screen overlays a capybara template onto a half-traced pencil drawing on paper
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Photo to Sketch

Any photo becomes clean line art in seconds.

✨

AI Generation

Describe it. We draw it. You trace it.

“a fox in autumn leaves”

1000+ templates

Animals, portraits, landscapes — fresh content weekly.

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Real paper

Pencil, pen, marker. Whatever's on your desk.

From the journal

Tutorials and tracing techniques.

All articles
How to Draw a Capybara — Step by Step
Featured

How to Draw a Capybara — Step by Step

two rectangles, four stubby legs, and an orange on its head

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How to Draw Hello Kitty — Bow, Dots, and Red Overalls
How to draw

How to Draw Hello Kitty — Bow, Dots, and Red Overalls

round head, two dot eyes, one bright red bow

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How to Draw Stitch — Two Big Ears and a Grin
How to draw

How to Draw Stitch — Two Big Ears and a Grin

round head, pear body, floppy ears, ocean-blue color

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ARTrace reviews and stats

What people say
“I’ve been sketching for 20 years. ARTrace is the first AR app that actually feels like an artist made it — not a tech demo.”
Maya R.
App Store review · 5★ · April 2026
1,000+
Drawing templates
updated weekly
28
Languages
EN · RU · DE · FR · ES …
Free
To start
Premium from $3.99
Common questions

Frequently asked questions — Anything else?

ARTrace is an augmented reality drawing app for iOS that projects images onto real paper so you can trace them with a real pencil, pen, or marker. It’s like having a camera lucida on your phone.