CLUSTER CANVAS-COLLABORATIVE-TOGETHER · 24 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2024-01-13
Real-time collaborative drawing apps
This cluster comprises applications for real-time collaborative drawing on a shared canvas, with multi-user sketching, painting, animation, and export capabilities. Dated entries appear sporadically from January 2024 through March 2026, showing no consistent pattern. The traction leaders are pencil-people-bridge, realtime-collab-canvas, and collaborative-canvas, each with the highest activity signal at zero stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 3 ai-built · 3 hand-coded · 14 unlabelled
Operator · 12 hobby · 2 open source · 6 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01sketch-collab1★5 days—Collaborative drawing tool that lets multiple people sketch together on a shared online canvas in real time.
- 02collaborative-canvas1★13 days—hobbyReal-time collaborative canvas that lets users create boards, add cards and text, and move them together in shared rooms.
- 03CanvasForAll0★12 days—hobbyShared canvas application that lets a group of people draw and collaborate on the same drawing surface.
- 04pencil-people-bridge0★1 moliveai-builtWeb app that connects people through collaborative pencil drawing activities.
- 05MyExcalidraw0★13 days—hobbyCollaborative drawing app that lets multiple users sketch together on a shared canvas and see each other's cursors and edits in real time.
- 06realtime-collab-canvas0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyReal-time collaborative drawing board where multiple users draw together, see live cursors, and undo or redo changes across rooms.
- 07canvas0★1 moliveReal-time collaborative canvas for drawing and sharing ideas with others.
- 08one-minute-to-draw0★1 mo—hobbyBrowser-based drawing game that gives players a 60-second canvas to sketch on and can share finished drawings to Discord.
- 09collaborative-canvas0★1 mo—hobbyCollaborative drawing app that lets multiple users sketch on a shared canvas in real time.
- 10Rust-Excalidraw4★7 mostalelivehand-codedhobbyA real-time collaborative drawing app that lets multiple users sketch shapes together with zoom and history support.
- 11real_time_collaborative_whiteboard0★1 molivehobbyWeb app that lets multiple users draw, edit, and move shapes together in real time on a shared canvas, with live cursors and synced undo history.
- 12real_time_collaborative_whiteboard-legacy20★1 molivehobbyWeb app that lets multiple users draw, edit, and move shapes together in real time on a shared canvas, with live cursors and synced undo history.
- 13pixel-penance0★2 molivehobbyCollaborative online canvas where each visitor places one pixel every three minutes to build a shared image.
- 14freehand0★2 molivehobbyRealtime collaborative drawing canvas that lets people share a link, draw together, and export the result as a PNG.
- 15Drawpile0★19 daysliveopen sourceCollaborative drawing program that allows multiple users to sketch, paint, and animate together on a shared canvas.
- 16dotdrop1★8 mostalelivehobbyWeb app where many users collaboratively place pixels on a shared canvas in real time to create group artwork.
- 17Drawpile0★10 mostalelivehand-codedopen sourceCollaborative drawing application that allows multiple people to sketch, paint, and animate together on a shared canvas in real time.
- 18shared-canvas-life0★1 yrstale—ai-builtCollaborative canvas app where partners or friends share photos, notes, and moments to document life together.
- 19pixel-clone-canvas-web0★1 yrabandoned—ai-builtCollaborative drawing app that lets users place colored pixels on a shared canvas to create and share pixel art together.
- 20Almost Reddit Place0★unknownliveCollaborative web app where users place colored pixels on a shared canvas, inspired by Reddit's r/place.
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