Alternatives to Drawpile
Draw and animate together on a shared canvas. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Drawpile
Draw and animate together on a shared canvas.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Drawpile.
Krita
A free digital painting program built for illustrators, with over a hundred brushes ready to use.
Krita is a free, open source painting program with over 100 brushes and stabilisers, but it has no shared canvas for collaborative sessions and no Android build.
MyPaint
A distraction-free painting app for graphics tablets, with an infinite canvas and deeply configurable brushes.
MyPaint offers an infinite canvas and configurable brushes for tablets, but drops collaborative sessions, runs only on Windows and Linux, and last had a stable release in 2020.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Drawpile as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Kleki
A free painting tool that runs in the web browser for quick sketches and drawings.
Drawpile is a free open-source desktop and Android app for drawing and animating on a shared canvas, adding collaboration that needs a network connection and host.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Pencil2D
A small, approachable program for traditional hand-drawn 2D animation, mixing bitmap and vector layers.
OpenToonz
Professional 2D animation software, based on the Toonz version used by Studio Ghibli.
PixiEditor
Create pixel art, illustrations and animations in one editor.
Figma
A collaborative design tool for interfaces, prototypes and product work, used in the browser.
