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Drag, drop, paste, or import. Save reference images from your browser, your files, or your clipboard. One click from any website with our browser extension.
Every masterpiece starts
with a reference.
Collect, organize, and study your art references in one beautiful, private space. Free forever.
Your references are everywhere. Your inspiration is nowhere.
You save images to random folders. You screenshot things and forget where they went. You have Pinterest boards you haven't opened in months. Browser tabs you're afraid to close. A camera roll full of museum photos buried under selfies.
When it's time to create, you spend more time searching for that one reference than actually drawing. The inspiration was there — somewhere — but now it's lost in the noise.
Sound familiar? You're not alone. Every artist we talked to said the same thing.
What if all your inspiration lived in one place?
Imagine opening one app and seeing everything that inspires you — organized exactly the way your brain works. Not an algorithm's idea of organization. Yours.
That's Reference Vault. A visual library for artists who collect inspiration like they collect breath — constantly, instinctively, everywhere.
Tools That Think Like You Do
Organize your way
Create collections that match how you think. Group by project, mood, color, subject — whatever makes sense to you. Your visual library, your rules.
Study like an artist
Blur references to see value structure. Flip them to check composition. Overlay a grid. Go grayscale. These aren't filters — they're the same techniques masters have used for centuries.
Extract color palettes
Pick any color with the eyedropper. Extract entire palettes from your reference images. No more guessing — see exactly what colors make a piece work.
Draw over your references
Overlay a transparent canvas on any reference. Sketch composition lines, note anatomy landmarks, or map out value patterns directly on the image.
Notes and attribution
Add notes to any image. Credit the original artist. Keep your references meaningful — your future self will thank you.
See something inspiring? Save it in one click.
Our browser extension sits quietly in your toolbar. When you find a reference image on any website — ArtStation, Pinterest, Instagram, a random blog — one click sends it straight to your vault.
No more "save image as" into a folder you'll forget. No more screenshots. No more lost bookmarks. Just click, and it's yours.
Available for Chrome. More browsers coming soon.
We built Reference Vault because we were tired of losing the images that made us want to create. Every artist deserves a space where their inspiration is safe, organized, and ready when the muse strikes.
Your references deserve better than a messy folder.
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