Image editing
Online Paint
Paint, sketch and doodle in your browser with brushes, layers, shapes and text — built for mouse, touchscreen and stylus alike.
Layers
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Keyboard shortcuts and touch gestures
- B M A C E
- Pen, marker, airbrush, calligraphy, eraser
- L R O T
- Line, rectangle, ellipse, text
- G I H
- Fill, eyedropper, pan
- [ and ]
- Smaller / bigger brush
- Ctrl+Z
- Undo
- Ctrl+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Y
- Redo
- + / − / 0 / 1
- Zoom in, zoom out, fit, 100 %
- Space + drag
- Pan the canvas
- Alt + click
- Pick a colour while painting
- Shift + drag
- Straight 45° lines, squares and circles
- Delete
- Clear the current layer
- Ctrl+S
- Download PNG
- Ctrl+V
- Paste an image as a new layer
- Two fingers
- Pinch to zoom, drag to pan, quick tap to undo
Your drawing stays on this device and is autosaved in this browser only.
Works in your browser. No account needed.
Frequently asked questions
Does it work with an Apple Pencil or other stylus?
Yes. The canvas reads pen pressure through the browser’s Pointer Events, which Apple Pencil on iPad, Samsung S Pen and most graphics tablets report in current browsers. Pressing lightly makes pen, calligraphy and eraser strokes thinner and airbrush strokes lighter; the marker always keeps its width. Once a stylus is detected, fingers switch to panning and zooming so a resting palm leaves no marks, and a checkbox lets you draw with fingers again.
Is my drawing saved, and is it uploaded anywhere?
Nothing is uploaded. About a second after each change, the canvas size and every layer are stored as PNG images in this browser’s own storage (IndexedDB), and they are restored when you come back on the same device and browser. A private window, clearing site data or a different browser starts empty, so download a PNG of anything you want to keep.
How do layers work here?
You can have up to 10 layers. Each can be hidden, moved up or down, duplicated, cleared, merged into the layer below or given its own opacity. Brushes, shapes, text and fill always work on the highlighted layer. A handy workflow is line art on one layer and colour on a layer underneath: tick “Use outlines from all layers” with the fill bucket so it respects the lines above. Downloads flatten all visible layers.
What canvas sizes can I use?
Presets cover 800 × 600, HD and Full HD, square and 4:5 social posts, a 1080 × 1920 phone story, A4 at 150 dpi and a 2048 px square, or you can type any size from 16 to 4096 pixels per side. The total is capped at about 8.4 megapixels because every layer is a full-size image in memory, and tablets run out of canvas memory first. Opened images larger than that are scaled down to fit.
How much can I undo?
Up to 80 steps, within a memory budget of about 160 MB; when either limit is reached the oldest steps are dropped first. Every stroke, shape, text, fill, clear, merge and layer add, delete or move can be undone and redone with the buttons, Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z (or Ctrl+Y), or a quick two-finger tap on a touchscreen. Changes to a layer’s opacity or visibility are not recorded as steps.
Why does the fill bucket leave a thin edge or leak out?
Brush strokes have soft, anti-aliased edges, so the pixels along a line are a blend of the line colour and the background. With a low tolerance those blended pixels are left unfilled; raising Tolerance lets the fill reach further into them. If the fill spills into the rest of the picture, the outline has a gap — close it with a brush stroke, or lower the tolerance.
About this tool
Online Paint is a full drawing app that runs in a browser tab. It has five brushes — a pressure-sensitive pen, a translucent marker that darkens like a real highlighter where colours overlap, a soft airbrush, a flat-nib calligraphy pen whose line swells and thins with direction, and an eraser — plus straight lines, rectangles, ellipses, multi-line text in four font styles, a flood-fill bucket with adjustable tolerance and an eyedropper that samples the visible picture. Each stroke is applied at your chosen opacity as a whole, so going back over part of the same pen or marker stroke does not make it darker, while the airbrush builds up gradually as it should.
Layers make it practical for more than doodling. Sketch on one layer, ink on another and colour underneath, hide a layer to compare, lower its opacity to trace over it, or merge layers when you are happy. You can open a photo to paint over, add further images as new layers (including by pasting from the clipboard or dropping a file on the canvas), and export the result as a PNG with transparency or as a JPG on white.
The app is built for touch and stylus screens as much as for a mouse. You can pinch to zoom, drag with two fingers to pan and tap with two fingers to undo; strokes follow every sample the pen reports, and pen pressure controls line width. Full view hides the rest of the page so the canvas fills the screen. On a keyboard, single letters switch tools, square brackets change brush size, Space-drag pans and the usual Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+Y and Ctrl+S shortcuts work.
Everything happens on your device. The drawing, the undo history and the autosave never leave the browser. Undo history is kept within a fixed memory budget so long sessions stay responsive, and only the changed area of each step is stored, so the oldest steps are dropped first when the limit is reached. Reopen the page on the same device and your last drawing is waiting, layers and all.