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Drawpile

Drawpile is a drawing and painting program, available on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android: multi-user support, brushes and pen tablets.

  • Completely free
  • Windows, macOS, Linux and Android
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Drawpile is a drawing and painting program, available on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.

Features described in its Winget manifest and in its F-Droid listing: multi-user support, brushes and pen tablets.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Drawpile is a Free and Open Source collaborative drawing program that lets multiple people draw, sketch, paint and animate on the same canvas simultaneously.” — official website, 10 November 2026
  • “Drawpile is a Free software collaborative drawing program that allows multiple users to sketch on the same canvas simultaneously.” — Winget, 10 November 2026
  • “The program is built for use primarily with a pressure-sensitive pen, but drawing via touch is also possible.” — F-Droid, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Drawpile is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • No advertising
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Drawpile lets you draw, sketch, paint and animate together with other people on the same canvas.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Unspecified source (platforms) —
  • Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (commercial use) —
  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from Winget (Windows Package Manager) (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from F-Droid (credit card, source code, licence, free status, platforms, ads, commercial use, version) —
  • Last technical check: 6 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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