The AI workspace for your visual inspiration

You collect visual inspiration constantly. A texture on a walk. A colour palette from a website. A layout you admire. A photograph that captures a mood. An interior that nails the feeling you're trying to create. The collecting is instinctive, but the system for holding it is broken. Some references are in Pinterest, some in your camera roll, some in a screenshots folder, some bookmarked in your browser, some saved to a desktop folder you made for a project that ended months ago. You know you saved the perfect reference. You can picture it. You just can't find it, because visual references don't have useful names and text search can't describe what something looks like. The inspiration is there. The retrieval isn't.

Fabric is a personal visual library where every reference you save is searchable by colour, by visual similarity, and by description, with a canvas for building moodboards and an AI that understands what your images look like.

Search by colour, similarity, and description

Visual references resist the way most tools search. You're looking for "that warm terracotta tone" or "something with a similar composition to this" or "minimalist typography on a dark background." No filename will match. No tag you remembered to add will cover it. The search needs to work the way visual thinking works.

Fabric's AI search finds images by colour, visual similarity, and meaning. Search a specific colour and find every reference in your library that matches the palette. Drop in a reference image and similar search finds everything visually related across your entire collection. Describe what you're looking for in words and find images that match the mood, style, or subject.

All three modes work across your full library, across every project you've ever saved references for. A texture you photographed two years ago surfaces when it matches the brief you're working on today.

Build moodboards from your own library

Collecting references and building moodboards usually happen in different tools. You gather in Pinterest and your camera roll, then recreate the moodboard in another app by re-importing everything. The gap between library and canvas creates friction and waste.

In Fabric, the library and the canvas are the same workspace. The canvas is an infinite spatial surface where you arrange images, notes, and references into moodboards, concept boards, and style explorations. Drag material directly from your library onto the canvas. No importing, no exporting, no format conversion. The moodboard draws from everything you've ever saved.

The canvas supports real-time collaboration for teams building boards together, and you can publish a finished moodboard as a shareable link with password protection and link analytics.

Discover connections you didn't know existed

A visual library is more valuable when it surprises you. The explorer gives you a spatial, navigable view of your visual collection, surfacing relationships and clusters you wouldn't find by browsing folders. Images group by visual similarity, colour, and theme. Connections form between references saved months or years apart.

The "I'm feeling lucky" mode surfaces unexpected material from across your library. This serendipity is the digital equivalent of flipping through a well-curated reference book: you're not looking for something specific, but what you find shifts your thinking.

Smart organization adds automatic tagging and colour recognition, so your visual library is categorised as you build it, without manual effort.

Annotate and remember your thinking

The value of a visual reference isn't just the image. It's why you saved it: the colour, the texture, the composition, the detail that caught your eye. Without a note, the intent fades, and six months later the image is just another file.

Annotations let you mark up any image with comments pinned to specific spots. Note what you liked: "this shadow treatment," "the weight of the serif," "the relationship between the two materials." The annotations are searchable, so your thinking about the image is as findable as the image itself.

The AI assistant also understands visual content. Ask it to find references that match a mood, pull together images with a similar colour story, or describe what you're looking for and let it search your library. It works from your collection, not from generic image databases.

Capture visual inspiration from anywhere

Inspiration doesn't arrive on schedule or in one format. Photograph a surface on your phone. Screenshot a website. Clip an image from a blog. Save a post from social media. Forward an email with an attached reference.

The mobile app and quick capture let you save visual references in seconds, wherever you are. The web clipper captures images from any website. Email-to-note catches references forwarded from email. Everything arrives in the same searchable library, immediately findable by colour, similarity, and meaning.

The capture habit is the investment. The library compounds over time: every image you save makes the visual search, the colour search, and the similarity search more useful, because there's a deeper pool to match against.

Who uses Fabric for visual inspiration

Visual references run through every creative workflow. Designers collect references for design projects and build moodboards. Architecture studios maintain precedent libraries searchable by visual similarity. Creative teams and agencies share reference boards with clients. Video editors collect mood reels and visual direction. Music creators build visual mood boards alongside sonic ones. Content creators collect style references and layout inspiration.

For the full moodboarding workflow, see moodboards and inspiration. For team asset management, see digital asset management. For spatial thinking beyond visual references, see brainstorming and ideation.

Get started

Build a visual library you can actually search, and stop losing references to camera rolls and bookmark folders. Try Fabric free.

Comparing tools? See why creatives choose Fabric as the best moodboard app and the best app for gathering inspiration. See how Fabric compares to Pinterest and Milanote.

FAQs

Can I search for an image by colour?

Yes. Search a specific colour or palette and AI search finds every image in your library that matches. Useful for pulling together on-palette references or finding material in a specific colour family.

Can I find images that look similar to a reference I have?

Yes. Drop an image into similar search and find everything visually related across your entire library. Composition, colour, style, and mood all factor into the match.

Can I search for images by describing what I want?

Yes. Describe the mood, style, subject, or characteristics in plain language and Fabric finds matching images. "Minimalist Japanese interior with natural light" or "bold geometric typography on dark background" returns relevant results from your collection.

Can I build moodboards in Fabric?

Yes. The canvas is an infinite spatial surface for arranging references into moodboards. Drag images from your library. No importing from another tool.

Can I share moodboards with clients?

Yes. Publish a canvas or collection with password protection and link analytics. Control who sees it and track when they've viewed it.

Can I annotate images with notes about what I liked?

Yes. Annotations let you pin comments to specific spots on any image. Your notes are searchable, so the thinking behind why you saved a reference is as findable as the reference itself.

Can I capture references on my phone?

Yes. The mobile app and quick capture let you photograph textures, screenshot websites, and save images in seconds. Everything syncs to your library.

Does the library get more useful over time?

Yes. Every reference you save deepens what colour search, similarity search, and the AI can draw on. A library of five thousand images surfaces matches you'd never find in a library of fifty. The collecting compounds.

How is this different from Pinterest?

Pinterest is a social discovery platform built around its own content. Fabric is a personal library built from what you save, from any source, in any format. You search by visual similarity and colour across your own collection, annotate references, and arrange them on an infinite canvas. You own the library rather than depending on a social feed.

Can I use this alongside my design tools?

Yes. Fabric is the reference library alongside your design tools. Collect and search in Fabric, design in Figma, Sketch, or whatever you use. The canvas also supports live Figma embeds.

What image formats are supported?

JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, and SVG. All are searchable by colour, visual similarity, and meaning.

Are my references private?

Yes. Your library is encrypted and only visible to you unless you choose to share it. Fabric uses AES-256 encryption and is CASA Tier 2 compliant.