Tap to import a scan — or drop a file here, or paste from the clipboard.
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Drawer
Tap to import a scan — or drop a file here, or paste from the clipboard.
A quiet editor for cleaning up scans of etchings and engravings. Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded, and nothing is saved unless you export.
Tap the + to open a scan. You can also drop a file onto the workspace or paste from the clipboard at any time — including to replace the current image. Export PNG saves your work with transparency preserved, so erased areas stay clear.
| Hand H | Drag to move around the image. |
| Magic wand W | Tap a tone to delete it. Raise the tolerance to catch more; turn on Everywhere to remove that tone across the whole image — ideal for stripping aged paper backgrounds. |
| Eraser E | Four paint modes: Clear erases to transparency; Color paints a solid tone (use Pick to sample one from the image); Lighten and Darken are dodge and burn — brushed local exposure at a chosen strength, the darkroom's defining craft. Round or square, from 1 px up, with Pencil pressure. |
| Knife K | Cut a section — freehand lasso or a dragged box. Cut away removes what you circled; Keep only removes everything else; To drawer lifts a copy into the drawer without touching the original. |
| Burin B | Engrave new marks. Freehand draws with Pencil pressure driving the line's swell. Line lays a straight tapered stroke — drag one along existing hatching to capture its angle, then tick Lock and every stroke after is parallel. Hatch fills a circled region with parallel lines at your angle and spacing; run it twice at crossing angles for cross-hatch tone. Tremor adds a hair of hand-waver so new lines sit alongside period work; Pick samples the plate's own ink color. The frisket acts as a resist. |
| Drawer | Holds cuttings lifted with the knife. Tap a thumbnail to edit that cutting with the full toolset, tap Plate to return to the original, and Export all to save every cutting. The drawer persists when you import a new scan, so you can collect cuttings from several pages. Switching clears the undo history. |
| Frisket P | Paint a protective veil over areas you want to keep — like masking fluid in printmaking. The wand, eraser, and knife will not touch protected areas. Lift removes protection; Clear all removes it everywhere. The veil is never exported. |
| Crop C | Drag a frame, then tap Crop. |
| Rotate R | Quarter turns, flips, and a Straighten slider for crooked scans — nudge the angle, then tap Apply. |
| Tone A | The darkroom panel, with a histogram to guide you. Brightness, contrast, and saturation preview live and bake at export. Everything else works on pixels — black and white points, Shadows and Highlights recovery, Warmth for color casts, Sharpen for soft scans, and threshold for pure black-and-white — tap Apply to commit. |
| Lift ink L | Turns a page scan into a printable facsimile. Flatten lighting cancels gutter shadow and vignetting first, then the paper and ink points map darkness to opacity — paper dissolves, ink stays, and letter edges keep their anti-aliasing. Unify ink recolors every stroke to one tone (pure black prints crispest, or pick the original ink's color). Despeckle sweeps away dust and foxing up to a chosen size. The frisket shields anything — a rubric, an illuminated capital — from all of it. Settings persist between imports, so a book becomes: import, Apply, export, next page. |
| Clear | Closes the image, the drawer, and all work — tap twice to confirm. To simply swap the plate for a new scan, just import again; that keeps the drawer. |
| Undo | Steps back through the last six changes. Ctrl+Z on a keyboard. |
One finger pans, pinch zooms — always, no matter which tool is active. Apple Pencil draws with the current tool, and pressure varies the eraser size (toggle this off in the eraser options if you prefer a fixed size). Your palm is ignored while the Pencil is in contact.
To install: open this page in Safari, tap the share button, and choose Add to Home Screen. Xetcher will then open full screen like an app.
Scroll to zoom. Pan with the Hand tool, by holding Space, or with a middle-button drag. [ and ] change brush size, 0 fits the image, 1 is 100%, Enter applies a crop, straighten, or tone change, Esc cancels it.
Straighten and crop first. Then tone — raise the black point and lower the white point until the ink is dense and the paper is clean, then Apply. Frisket over the artwork you want to keep. Wand with Everywhere to clear the background. Knife or eraser for the rest. Export.