drawpile/Drawpile Alternatives

collaborative drawing / painting

Drawpile is a desktop collaborative drawing and painting program for real-time shared canvases.

1.3kCGPL-3.0active · last push 17d agoGitHub

Same job, different approach

Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.

excalidraw/excalidrawGitHub

Choose it for browser-based real-time whiteboarding and diagram sketching instead of a desktop raster paint app.

Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

: 132.5k
: TypeScript
: MIT

active18d ago

Older generation, or narrower

An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.

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Prayag2/drawyGitHub

Choose it for a lightweight local Qt drawing app when you don't need real-time networking, though the GitHub repo is archived.

The project has now moved to KDE Invent.

: 881
: C++
: GPL-3.0

archived5mo ago

PintaProject/PintaGitHub

Choose it for a simple single-user GTK image editor when collaboration is unnecessary and you prefer C#/.NET over C++/Qt.

Simple GTK Paint Program

: 4.1k
: C#
: MIT

active16d ago

mypaint/mypaintGitHub

Choose it for a mature tablet-oriented painting engine when you don't need live shared canvases.

MyPaint is a simple drawing and painting program that works well with Wacom-style graphics tablets.

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: Python
: GPL-2.0

active4mo ago

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These projects were analysed and named Drawpile among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how Drawpile rates them is a separate judgement, made when Drawpile is analysed in its own right.

plait-board/drawnixGitHub

calls Drawpile “desktop collaborative raster painting program; choose it for natural-media painting sessions, not diagram/mind-map work”

开源白板工具（SaaS），一体化白板，包含思维导图、流程图、自由画等。All in one open-source whiteboard tool with mind, flowchart, freehand and etc.

14.7kTypeScriptactive

Y0ngg4n/fluffy_boardGitHub

calls Drawpile “Choose it for a mature C++ desktop collaborative drawing app with layer support, but it is not web/Flutter.”

A offline and online Flutter Whiteboard with collaboration Features. Not maintained anymore. Demo is offline.

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