About doodlz.app

doodlz.app is a free online multiplayer drawing and guessing game that runs entirely in your browser. There is nothing to download, nothing to install and no account to create. You pick a nickname, build a little avatar out of colours, eyes and mouths, press Play and you are dropped straight into a room with other players.

How a game is structured

A game is made of three rounds. In every round each player takes one turn as the drawer. The drawer is offered a short list of secret words and picks one, then has eighty seconds to draw it on the shared canvas. Everyone else watches the drawing appear stroke by stroke and races to type the answer into the chat. The faster you guess, the more points you take, and the drawer earns points for every player who works the word out. After the final round the scoreboard decides the winner.

Note: while a round is running, the guessers cannot see the current drawer's chat messages. This stops the drawer from spelling out or hinting at the word, so nobody can cheat their way to points.

Drawing tools

The drawing kit is deliberately simple so that a round never turns into a technical contest: a pen, an eraser, a fill bucket, four brush sizes, an undo button, a clear button and a colour palette. The canvas is synchronised in real time, so every stroke, dot and fill looks exactly the same on every player's screen no matter which browser, phone, tablet or laptop they are using, in portrait or in landscape.

Playing with friends

Every room has a five character room code shown under the player list. Copy it, send it to a friend, and they can type it into the room code box on the home page to drop into the same room. If you do not have a code, pressing Play puts you into the next public room with space in it.

Made to be safe

doodlz.app is designed for a general audience. Chat is filtered, spam is rate limited, and players can mute, report or votekick someone who is spoiling the game. No email address, phone number or date of birth is ever requested. Read the privacy policy and the terms of use for the full detail.

Who makes it

doodlz.app is an independent hobby project run by a very small team. It is paid for by the ads on the page, which is why the game itself stays free for everyone. Feedback, bug reports and word list suggestions are genuinely welcome — see the contact page.