Reference Board is a native mood board app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Collect images, videos, quotes, and notes on an infinite canvas, with iCloud sync across devices. Search goes beyond filenames with Apple Intelligence, generated descriptions, tags, colors, and visual feel. Private by design. Simple on the surface. Quietly powerful underneath.
I built Reference Board because I wanted a native mood board app that felt simple, elegant, and out of the way.
Most tools either pile on features or turn the whole process into admin. I wanted something that keeps the focus on the content, syncs across devices, stays private, and quietly does the helpful work in the background with auto-tagging, generated descriptions, and metadata.
No subscription. No clutter. Just a better place to collect and shape inspiration.
It’s still early, and I’d love feedback. If there’s a feature you wish existed, tell me.
Looks really clean. Curious, do you see this as mainly a way to organize inspiration, or does it actively help spark new creative directions
Congrats on the launch, this looks amazing 🙌
Do you have any plans for a safari/browser extension to automate adding from web? For example I now use Pinterest for gathering inspiration and have boards like this there, but it'd be nice to have a board locally to reference since the app just works faster, so something like an "Add to board" feature would be amazing 🙂
About Reference Board on Product Hunt
“Infinite Canvas for your ideas”
Reference Board launched on Product Hunt on April 22nd, 2026 and earned 82 upvotes and 5 comments, placing #19 on the daily leaderboard. Reference Board is a native mood board app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Collect images, videos, quotes, and notes on an infinite canvas, with iCloud sync across devices. Search goes beyond filenames with Apple Intelligence, generated descriptions, tags, colors, and visual feel. Private by design. Simple on the surface. Quietly powerful underneath.
Reference Board was featured in iOS (110.2k followers), Apple (15.4k followers) and Design (5.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 42.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Reference Board?
Reference Board was hunted by Danny Ruchtie. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Danny Ruchtie
I built Reference Board because I wanted a native mood board app that felt simple, elegant, and out of the way.
Most tools either pile on features or turn the whole process into admin. I wanted something that keeps the focus on the content, syncs across devices, stays private, and quietly does the helpful work in the background with auto-tagging, generated descriptions, and metadata.
No subscription. No clutter. Just a better place to collect and shape inspiration.
It’s still early, and I’d love feedback. If there’s a feature you wish existed, tell me.