A field notebook for designers who shoot on site.

Materials, finishes, spaces, details. Captured with the reason they caught your eye, kept in one place, and found again when a project calls.

iPhone · iOS 18 and later

Your research is scattered, and the context is gone.

The tile from that showroom. The façade across the street. The fabric a client loved.

They scatter across your camera roll, WhatsApp, Are.na and laptop folders. And the why (the finish, the source, the rough price, the client note) is gone by the time you need it.

Point. Tap. Keep.

Backdrop reads what you point it at and files it for you. One app, one shelf for everything you shoot on site. No switching, no exporting, no end-of-day cleanup.

Say why it matters.

Hold the shutter and talk. The finish, the texture, the rough price, what the client said. Your words stay with the image.

It sorts itself. And writes itself.

Everything you keep gathers on your shelf and organises into topics on its own, and each topic becomes a short, cited page drawn from your own captures.

You never file a thing.

Ask your shelf anything.

Ask in plain words and get a real answer, drawn straight from what you actually shot. Every line cited back to your own captures. Never invented. Always yours.

Your research stays yours.

Client work is proprietary. Nothing is kept unless you tap, nothing syncs by default, nothing is shared.

Your shelf is private, and it stays that way.

Build your shelf.

Backdrop is a field notebook for designers who shoot on site. Start your shelf, and stop hunting for the reference you know you saved.