Line Ripper is going mobile.
For a while now, Line Ripper has lived in one place: your browser. Open a tab, drop in a reference, pull a clean stencil, get back to the skin. That part is not changing. But a browser tab was never the whole plan.
We are building a native Line Ripper for iPhone and iPad. It is not out yet, and we are not going to pretend it is. What we will tell you is this: it is real, it is in our hands every day, and we are closing in.
First, a reminder of what you actually get. Drag the handle to watch a reference turn into a transfer-ready stencil.
Why bother, when the web already works?
Fair question. The web version does the job, and it will keep doing the job. But think about where a tattoo actually begins. A reference photo lands in your camera roll. An idea shows up between clients. The iPad is already sitting on half the workstations we walk past. That is the work happening on a device, in the room, with a person waiting.
A browser is great at a desk. It gets clumsy one-handed at the shop, pinching and scrolling a page that was built for a mouse. We want Line Ripper to feel like it belongs on the thing you already reach for. Same tool, closer to your hands.
What we will not do
Rush it. We have all installed the app that clearly shipped a month too early, and we have no interest in being that. So you will not get a countdown clock from us. No date we might miss. No wish-list of features that may or may not survive to launch.
Here is the part we are sure of. The thing that makes Line Ripper worth opening, a model we trained specifically for tattoo work that reads an image and hands back clean, transfer-ready line work, comes with it. The result you trust at the desk is the result you will get in your hand. We are not rebuilding the good part. We are carrying it with you.
Want to hear it first?
Nothing changes for you today. Everything you need is already in your browser, on any device, with nothing to install. That is the honest answer for right now.
But if you would rather not find out from someone else: make an account and generate a few stencils. The artists already using Line Ripper are the ones we tell first. When the app is ready, you will not have to go looking for the news. It will come to you.
Your art, your way. Just faster, and soon, wherever you are.