Kineograph vs RefApp

Kineograph — A Visual Instrument for the Logic of Change Learning apps teach you facts. Video platforms play you motion. Kineograph gives you the controls. Every piece of content in Kineograph reduces to a scrubber — an ordered sequence of frames you drag through with your thumb. No autoplay. No scrub bar hidden behind a gesture. Time is the parameter, and you hold it. Drag slowly to watch a muscle engage across the span of a step. Drag quickly to feel the rhythm of a limb. Stop, reverse, repeat the half-second that matters. A well-made sequence plus a well-made slider lets the most powerful GPU in the world — your own brain — run at exactly the right speed. The name is a tribute to John Barnes Linnett's 1868 invention — the original flipbook. The premise is the same. The catalogue is new. WHAT YOU CAN STUDY AT LAUNCH The library is anatomy-rooted and rigorous. Current content draws from the canonical references: • Human morphometry after Paul Richer — the muscular and skeletal plates generations of figure artists have studied. • Comparative animal anatomy after Ellenberger and Dittrich — equine, bovine, canine, and more, drawn from the nineteenth-century masters of veterinary illustration. Every article is presented with citations, author attribution, and the original plate or photograph at its source. What you see is what the references actually show — not redrawn, not simplified. A CATALOGUE THAT GROWS Anatomy is the beachhead. The roadmap extends outward — animation and kinematics, classical painting and portraiture, engineering illustration, master crafts, calligraphy, the brush-stroke logic of Hán tự and Kanji. The instrument is the same; the subjects expand. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Scrub through any sequence. Drag to control time, release to rest. • Read articles with embedded scrubbers, citations, and author attribution. • Follow official albums — curated reading paths that thread scrubbers and articles together around a theme. • Browse by subject — human, equine, bovine, canine — or by medium (drawing, photography), or by source book (Richer, Ellenberger, Muybridge). • Favorite scrubbers to return to, and vote on scrubbers and articles you find valuable. The Trends screen surfaces what the community is studying now. YOUR LIBRARY TRAVELS Sign in with Apple, Google, Discord, GitHub, or as a guest. Link several providers to one account and merge them later — your library follows you across iPhone and iPad. TIERS • Free — browse, read, use the first two scrubbers of most articles. Small ad banner. • Plus — no ads, full catalogue, custom slider styles. • Pro — everything in Plus, plus hands-free playback and higher-tier articles. • Max — everything. Or unlock a single article by watching a short rewarded ad. Subscriptions are handled by Apple. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ WHO MAKES IT An indie team of two — an anatomy illustrator and a software engineer — at Mushogenshin Media LLC. We started with the bones and the muscles. We're building the instrument that fits everything else.

An art reference board that holds hundreds of images in front of you at once — and keeps every board as a file on your device, not inside somebody's account. Reference apps have a failure mode everyone in this line of work has run into: one day the app loses the board. RefApp is built so that cannot happen quietly. Every board is a single .rfap file sitting in a folder you picked. You can see it in Files, copy it, back it up, move it to another device, or open the folder on a computer. Delete the app tomorrow and your boards are still there. A BOARD YOU CAN SEE ALL AT ONCE • An infinite surface — pan and zoom from the whole wall down to one detail • Hundreds of images on a single board, at any size, anywhere you put them • Double tap to bring everything back into view • Built for a steady frame rate on large boards and large images, not just small ones PUT THINGS EXACTLY WHERE THEY GO • Rotate to any angle, not in 90° steps • Crop, resize and replace an image without leaving the board • Layers for z-order, so anything can sit in front of or behind anything else • Group, duplicate and nudge; undo and redo every step • Write straight onto the board — headings, bold, italic, lists and links — so the note lives next to the reference it belongs to COLLECT WITHOUT BREAKING FLOW • Share images to RefApp from any app on your phone • Pull them in from your photo library or from Files • Drop a screenshot in the moment you take it YOUR BOARDS, YOUR FILES • One board, one .rfap file, in a folder of your choosing • That folder is the project list — rename or delete a file anywhere and the app just follows • Reachable in Files under On My iPhone → RefApp, or from any cloud folder you point it at • Optional Dropbox backup, into an app folder nothing else can read • Works fully offline. No account to make, no server to sign in to, nothing uploaded QUIET BY DESIGN Near-black, no clutter, no feed, no ads, nothing to keep up with. Toolbars collapse and panels slide away while you work, because the references are the thing on screen, not the interface. FREE AND PRO The free version gives you one board with every tool in the app — no watermarks, no locked gestures. RefApp Pro adds unlimited boards, backups to your own cloud folder, and exporting or sharing .rfap project files. Pro is a subscription, monthly or annual, starting with a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it any time in your account settings. Built for painters, illustrators, concept artists and designers who would rather look at their references than manage them. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://elukianov.me/docs/policy/refapp