Ghost Canvas overlays any photo on real paper through the live camera view. Prop up your phone, look at the screen, and trace what you see — outlines, grid, AR anchoring and timelapse included.
Any photo from your library, camera, or Files. Outline mode can reduce it to clean contour lines before you start.
Aim the camera at your paper. AR anchoring pins the reference to the table, so it stays put even when the phone shifts.
Adjust the overlay opacity and draw. Record a timelapse of the whole session if you want to share it.
Artists have been tracing reality through prisms since the camera lucida was patented in 1806. Ghost Canvas is the same trick — the prism is now your camera.
The reference floats over your paper — dial its opacity as you draw.
Any photo becomes clean contour lines, ready to follow.
Pin the image to the table by its corners — it stays put.
Everything syncs through your private iCloud, per-drawing time included.
Two contour engines — including FDoG — turn any photo into clean, traceable line art.
Pinned to the table by its corners, with perspective correction — the reference stays put even when you move.
Monochrome, posterize, a proportion grid, and a strobe that flickers the reference to check your lines.
Record the whole session and watch the drawing come to life — saved straight to your photo library.
Pick up where you left off — projects sync privately across devices, with time-spent tracking per drawing.
Your photos never leave your device.
$1.99, once.
A one-time purchase on the App Store — every feature included, on iPhone and iPad. No subscription to cancel, no ads to ignore, no account to create.