RefRoRefRo Roadmap
RefRo: Reference Rover is available on the Mac App Store and continues to grow around one promise: preserve where an image came from, why it mattered, and how it should move into mood boards, reference cards, and presentations.
Available, next, and still being explored.
RefRo: Reference Rover is available on the Mac App Store and continues to grow around one promise: preserve where an image came from, why it mattered, and how it should move into mood boards, reference cards, and presentations.
Available now
The first Mac App Store release
Source-aware research library
Keep page addresses, notes, tags, product details, and context attached to every saved reference.
Mood boards and presentations
Turn research into automatic grids, freeform layouts, reference cards, and presentation-ready pages.
Apple Intelligence assistance
Use on-device visual context and supported system models to create concise, editable reference names.
Next
Updates after launch
Stronger research capture
Improve browser, drag-and-drop, photo-picker, and file imports when websites provide incomplete information.
Presentation editing and export
Polish page controls, captions, alignment, page sizes, PDFs, and presentation-ready output.
Source completeness checks
Surface references that need a source, note, credit, or other missing context before they are shared.
Exploring
Directions under consideration
RefRo mobile companion
A focused iPhone companion for collecting references, preserving sources, and reviewing research away from the full Mac workspace.
Reusable research formats
Save useful board and page structures for recurring project types without flattening the underlying research.
Structured product research
Better support for dimensions, materials, vendors, pricing notes, and other product-specific context.
Foli handoff
Carry selected references into a creative project while preserving where the research originated.