Drawpile is a collaborative desktop drawing program that lets multiple people draw, sketch, paint and animate on the same canvas simultaneously.
A web browser version is also available.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports pressure-sensitive drawing tablets.
- 200 brushes built-in
- Multiple different brush engine and has a brush editor to configure your own brushes.
- Stabilizer to smooth out your strokes.
- Layers and layer groups (also known as layer folders) with various different blend modes.
- Supports alpha preserve, clipping groups, masking and alpha lock for rendering and shading pictures.
- Magic wand tool.
- Create animations, coming with a timeline and onion skins. You can either work together on a single animation or animate something as part of a larger canvas.
- Tools to make lines, curves and other shapes, as well as selections, transforms and flood filling.
- Save your canvas to the OpenRaster (ORA) format, supported by e.g. Krita, MyPaint or GIMP, or to PSD.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, Android, macOS, and Windows.
Website: drawpile.net
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Drawpile contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Drawpile is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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