Art & Design
AR Drawing:Sketch & Trace app
Camera-based tracing with opacity, resize, flip and lock controls, plus thousands of templates.
Get the app
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- Developer
- CloudLeap Limited
- Score
- 4.5
- Downloads
- 55 ratings
- Age
- Rated 4+
- Version
- 1.0.3
- Price
- Free
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About this app
CloudLeap's tracing app, which calls itself AR Sketch: Trace & Draw inside the listing, puts a reference image on the camera view so you can copy it onto paper underneath. References can come from its own template library, from your photo roll, or from a photo converted into a clean outline. Categories include Anime, Cartoon and Animals, along with People, Flowers, Food, Nature and Vehicles. The tracing controls are the useful part. You can adjust the guide's opacity, resize it to fit the paper, flip it to draw mirrored, and lock the position so it stops drifting when the phone moves. A flashlight option helps in dim rooms. Favourite templates and references can be saved for later. The premium features need a subscription, which renews automatically unless cancelled. Beginners and students are the stated audience.
AR Drawing:Sketch & Trace app: the full guide
What the app is
CloudLeap's entry in the crowded camera-tracing field goes by a second name inside its own listing, AR Sketch: Trace & Draw, which is the first thing to know. The second is that its reference images can come from three places: a built-in library sorted into groups such as Anime, Cartoon, Animals, People, Flowers and Vehicles, your own photo roll, or a photo reduced to a tidy outline.
What it does better than the simplest rivals is the guide handling. Opacity can be adjusted, the image resized to fit the page, flipped for a mirrored copy, and locked in place so it stops wandering when the phone shifts.
How it works day to day
A session begins with choosing a reference, often a photo from the camera roll rather than a stock template, and converting it to an outline if it's too busy. Then comes the fiddly part: resizing the guide to the paper, dialling the opacity down so the pencil line shows through, and locking the position before the first stroke. From there it's steady copying, with the flashlight on if the room is dim.
Favourites get saved for a second attempt later. It's a tool you'd reach for when you want a specific picture, not a daily exercise.
Why people look for it
The lock and flip controls are the search driver. Anyone who has tried tracing through a camera knows the guide drifts the moment the phone is nudged, and a position lock is the fix. Converting your own photos into outlines is the other reason. Note the rating rests on only 55 reviews, so the 4.5 is a weak signal.
Look and feel
With five screenshots and a category of Art & Design, expect the usual pairing of a template grid and a live camera view with a translucent drawing on it. The emphasis on controls suggests a toolbar of sliders and toggles around the viewfinder. The anime and cartoon categories hint at a design pitched at teenagers and students rather than adults.
