refern

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Desktop app for artists and designers to collect, organize, and search visual references locally with AI tagging, canvas, and graph view.

Active plans

Total changes

Last change

Sep 3, 2026

Price trend

no history

What we know about refern’s pricing

Stable

Changes in 12 months

Cadence

Every 10 weeks

Direction

Recently restructured

Category position

Middle of the pack for Design (1228 compared)

one time

$35

Last 2 changes

$30.00→$35.00(+16.7%)

Date	Plan	Change	Old	New	Δ%
Sep 3, 2026	refern	restructure	$30	$35	+16.7%
Jun 22, 2026	Lifetime	new plan	—	$30	—

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