A doodle pad that lives in your browser tab
Sometimes you just want to scribble. Annotate a screenshot, sketch a quick logo idea, draw a stick figure for a group chat, or let a kid mash colors around for ten minutes. Firing up Photoshop for that is overkill, and most “free” paint sites bury the canvas under three banner ads.
This is the whole thing: a brush, an eraser, color, size, undo, clear, and a download button. Pick a color, drag across the canvas, and the line follows your cursor in real time. When it looks right, save it as a PNG. That’s it.
How it works
The canvas reads pointer events, so the same drawing logic covers a mouse, a trackpad, a drawing tablet, and a touchscreen without any toggles. Sign in line at the coffee shop on your phone, or draw with a Wacom pen on your desktop. Both feel the same.
- Choose a brush color. Eight presets cover the rainbow plus black and white. Need an exact shade? The color picker eats any hex value you throw at it.
- Set the brush size. Drag the slider from a hairline 1px up to a fat 60px stroke. The eraser scales with the same slider, just a bit wider so cleanup goes faster.
- Paint. Press and drag. Lift to end a stroke. A single tap leaves a round dot, the way a real brush would.
- Switch to the eraser when you overshoot. It paints back over your marks with the current background color, so it blends in cleanly.
- Undo or clear. Undo peels off your last stroke one at a time. Clear all wipes the canvas so you can start over.
- Download PNG to save the picture to your device.
Strokes get smoothed with quadratic curves between sampled points, so your lines read as smooth curves instead of jagged zigzags. Move fast or slow, the path keeps up.
The background fill trick
There’s a separate background color picker next to the size slider. Change it and the whole canvas behind your art shifts to that color instantly. White by default, but flip it to black for a chalk look, navy for a night scene, or pastel pink for something soft.
One thing to know: the eraser uses whatever the background color is at that moment. So if you draw on white, erase a bit, then switch the background to blue, the previously erased patches will show as the new blue too. Pick your background first, then paint, and you’ll never notice this.
Good to know
Nothing you draw leaves your machine. The whole editor runs on a single canvas element in your browser, so there’s no upload, no account, no server round trip. Refresh the tab and the canvas resets to blank.
The canvas renders internally at 1000 by 700 pixels, larger than it appears on screen, which keeps the saved PNG sharp even when you scale it up. For social posts, chat reactions, and quick mockups that’s plenty of resolution.
It’s a raster tool, not a vector one. Great for freehand sketches, annotations, and fun. If you need clean scalable shapes with editable paths, reach for a vector editor instead.
Common questions
Can I draw with my finger on a phone?
Yep. Touch is handled exactly like a mouse through pointer events, so finger and stylus both work. The canvas stretches to fit your screen width.
Does the eraser leave a transparent hole?
Nope. It paints over your marks with the current background color rather than cutting through to transparency. The exported PNG always has a solid background.
How far back can I undo?
As far as you’ve got strokes. Each tap of Undo removes the most recent stroke and keeps the rest, so you can step back through the whole history one mark at a time.
Why is my saved image bigger than the canvas on screen?
The internal resolution is 1000 by 700, scaled down to fit your layout. You draw small, you save big, and the result stays crisp.
Is anything I draw stored or uploaded?
No. It all happens locally in the browser with zero network calls. Close the tab and the drawing is gone for good.