Do I need an account to draw?
Yes. Watching is open to everyone; drawing needs a free account: a username and a
password, no email address. It shows your name beside your cursor and lets you create
canvases of your own.
Does it work on tablets and phones?
Yes. Every tool works with touch, pinch to zoom and two fingers to pan. With a
pressure-sensitive pen such as Apple Pencil, how hard you press sets the width and
opacity of the line.
How big is a canvas?
The entrance canvas has no edges. A canvas of your own is endless too, or a fixed size:
presets for screens, tablets and phones, or your own size of up to 10,240 pixels per
side.
Can a canvas have a transparent background?
Yes. A canvas of your own is white, any colour you choose, or transparent, endless or
not. A transparent canvas shows a checkerboard as image editors do; its PNG and SVG
exports keep the transparency, and a time-lapse video asks which colour to show behind
it. You can change the background any time in the settings, and nothing drawn changes
with it.
Can I draw on layers?
Yes, on a canvas of your own of up to 4,096 pixels a side: choose "Use layers" when you
make it, or switch them on later in its settings (they stay on). It has up to four
layers, shared by everyone drawing there, each with its own name, order, opacity,
visibility, lock and blend mode (normal, multiply or screen). Everyone picks the layer
they draw on, and an eraser erases only its own layer. Hidden layers are left out of
exports, and the SVG keeps each layer as a group.
Can I keep or share what I drew?
Select any region and export it as a PNG, as an SVG with every stroke as a vector, or as
an MP4 time-lapse of how it was drawn. Or share a link that opens the canvas at exactly
that spot and zoom.
Can I make my own brushes?
Yes. Beside 192 ready brushes, the brush generator makes brushes of your own: pick a
shape, then soften, squash, turn, add grain or scatter it. Your brushes are kept in your
browser, and every stroke carries its brush, so everyone sees it the same on every
canvas and in every export.
Can I make a private canvas?
Yes. A private canvas shows only to the people you invite to watch or to draw, and, if
you allow it, to visitors who may watch. As the owner you can also block people, limit
exports, protect regions and clear an area or the whole canvas.
Can I keep others from drawing over part of my canvas?
Yes. Select a part of your canvas and protect it under a name. Only you, the people you
let in and our admins (on a public canvas also our moderators) can draw there; everyone
else's strokes stop at its edge, and they see whose region it is.
What if I see something that should not be there?
Report it: MultiDraw → Help → Report… sends the spot in view with what is wrong, also
without an account, and you get a report number at once. Moderators and admins decide,
and an account they act against is told why and can contest the decision.
Can I delete my account, or take my data with me?
Yes, both, whenever you like. Download my data gives you one file with your account,
canvases, rights and your drawings on every canvas. Delete account asks whether your
drawings go with it or stay without your name; your own canvases wait in the trash for
30 days.
What happens if I forget my password?
There is no email address on file to recover it with, so you create a new account. We
keep as little as possible: a username and a password hash, no email address, so there
is nothing to send a reset to.
Is MultiDraw World free?
Yes. It runs in your browser at no cost and needs no install.