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Every kind of thing has its own app.
Pictures in Pinterest, notes in Notion, fonts in a folder. You have to guess where to look.
arc
Save, remember and use your ideas.
A desktop app for everything you save. I started it for myself, then researched, designed and built it alone, from first idea to a working app.
- Role
- Solo, end to end
- Timeline
- June 2026 – Present
- Tools
- Figma, Claude Code
- Status
- Launching soon
- Deliverables
- Research · Competitor analysis · UX · UI · Interaction design · Front-end build
The problem
Saving takes a second. Finding takes an afternoon.
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You remember saving it. Not why, or where.
A week later it's one more picture in a pile of thousands.
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Good ideas don't wait for an app.
If saving takes more than a few seconds, they're gone.
"I save inspiration for every project. When the deadline hits, I end up using whatever I can find right then, or whatever I saved last week."
Research
Each app does part of the job. None does all of it.
Five apps people already use to save things, side by side.
Only one column is full. A snapshot from September 2026: these apps change often.
01 · Saving
Save anything, from anywhere.
A picture from the web
Right-click, Add to arc. It's saved at once; the reason and tags can come after.
A collection of images from the web
Right-click a Pinterest board and every image on it lands in arc, all at once.
Words from any page
Highlight a line on any website, right-click, and it's kept as a note, with the page it came from.
Supports multiple file types
arc supports more than 20 file types, from images and fonts to Photoshop files and 3D models, and helps you manage and sort them all in one place.
- Images
- GIFs
- Videos
- PDFs
- Fonts
- Audio
- Notes
- Links
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Figma
- Sketch
- InDesign
- Procreate
- Affinity
- Keynote
- PowerPoint
- Word
- 3D models
- Lottie
- HEIC
- Camera RAW
02 · Retrieval
Find it the way you remember it.
An idea is clearest the moment you save it, so arc asks why. Later, search that reason, a tag arc added, or a colour.
By colour
Drag round the ring and the grid filters as you go. The centre shows how many match.
By a word or a tag
One box searches names, the tags arc added, and the reason you gave when you saved it.
By date, collection or order
Narrow it to a date or a collection, sort by colour, and switch between Grid and Freeform.
03 · Ideas stay
Never lose an idea.
Press ⌘⇧V in any app and speak. It works offline, and your voice never leaves your computer.
And more
Turn your saves into a moodboard.
Drag pictures onto a board, add notes, arrows and to-dos, and export a PNG or PDF for the client.
Design style
Mostly black, with one orange.
Dark greys keep the focus on what you save. SF Pro for all the text, and orange for what's selected.
Typography
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SF Pro
The Mac's own typeface. Display for headings, Text for everything else.
- The DetectiveHeading · Display Semibold
- Orange + black for the Brew & Co deckBody · Text Regular
- 128 resultsLabel · Text Medium
- FormatMenu title · Semibold
Colour
Page#000000
Surface#0A0A0A
Field#131313
Button#1C1C1C
Border#272727
Muted#6E6E6E
Secondary#9B9B9B
Text#EDEDED
Accent#FE4801
Still being built
arc hasn't launched yet.