Ghost Frame floats a see-through reference image on top of every other app. Lock it, and your taps pass straight through to whatever’s underneath, so you can keep working with the image hovering in place.
It’s made for two jobs. To line up a shot, overlay a still from your first take, then move the camera until the subject sits exactly where it did before. To trace, put a picture over your sketching app and draw straight through it.
What’s in it
- When the overlay is locked, it ignores your touches and you use the app below as normal.
- Two layers, so you can stack two reference images and adjust each one separately.
- Move, pinch, and rotate the image. Resizing keeps the original proportions, with no drift or stretching.
- Crop your photo or screenshot down to the part you need.
- A transparency slider, and a hide button that remembers the exact position, so the image comes back where you left it.
- A small control bar you can drag anywhere or shrink to a dot while you work.
Free, and private
Ghost Frame is completely free. It doesn’t ask for internet access, so your images can’t leave your phone, and it has no accounts, ads, or analytics.
Ghost Frame is Android only. iPhones don’t let apps draw over other apps, so an iOS version isn’t possible. A Google Play release is on the way; until then, download it straight from here.