Release notes

Improved

• Performance improvements around loading rooms, drawing, and downloading canvases.

Added

• Redo - Restore actions you have undone. Taking a new action clears your redo history. If someone else edits the same object, their changes must be undone before you can redo yours.
• Export and import rooms - Save a canvas as a .drawroom file, including its undo and redo history, and import it from the lobby to start a new shared room or device canvas. Exporting and importing require an internet connection.
• Canvas names - Give each canvas a name to make it easier to find again. Shared room names are personal to you. New canvases start with a date and time, and imported canvases use the file name.

Improved

• Cropped PNG downloads - Download a picture cropped to the visible artwork, without empty margins or completely erased content. Downloads use your canvas name.
• Recent canvases - Shared rooms show when they expire, updating as people use them. Remove a shared room from your recent list or delete a canvas saved on this device.
• Unused canvases - New canvases are automatically discarded when closed if you have not drawn, renamed them, or generated an invitation link.

Added

• Woodland collection - A new collection in the structured composition library, with its own landscape, 5 mythical characters, 7 animal characters, and 5 plant and nature assets.

Improved

• Removed redundant colors and added Ivory and Light Tan for more skin tone choices.

Improved

• Offline mode is now supported via Draw on this device.

Added

• Mirror - Mirror a single selection or selected group horizontally or vertically using controls on the selection edges.
• Duplicate - Right-click or long-press a single selection or selected group to duplicate it. Offset copies are selected automatically; Undo removes the copied set together.
• Copy and paste - Ctrl/Cmd+C copies your selection, even if the originals are later changed or deleted. Ctrl/Cmd+V pastes a copy, just like Duplicate.
• Combine - Join selected drawings, shapes, and non-holiday pictures into one editable object. Undo restores the originals; there is no separate Ungroup command.

Improved

• Right-click drag to select multiple items in one step, instead of first selecting an object and then using left-click drag.
• Double-click or double-tap another object to switch selection. Single-click or single-tap outside the selection still only deselects it.
• Choosing a drawing tool clears the canvas selection.
• If a stroke appears to be part of the underlying object, it will automatically combine with the object. Holiday pictures remain separate, as they are structured compositions.
• Help text now reflects your device and what you are doing.
• Added more readable messages to explain why some bucket-fill actions result in no change.
• If someone else changes the object you last edited, the Undo button becomes greyed out.
• Clearer messages explain when a room cannot be created.

Fixed

• Long-press on a selected group did not always open the menu. This is now fixed.
• Some artwork appeared beneath existing objects while it was being drawn. Newer actions are no longer obscured by existing objects.
• Some areas in Christmas pictures were not coloring correctly. This is now fixed.

Draw with Us! is a collaborative drawing and coloring canvas where children, families, and friends can create together from different devices.

1. Draw together

• Create a room and invite others with a shareable link.
• Draw together from up to four connected devices.
• See drawings, coloring, erasures, and edits synchronize across devices.
• Refresh or reconnect without losing the current canvas.
• Return to a previous room from the same browser.
• Rooms remain available across server restarts and expire after 24 hours without activity.

2. Draw and create

• Draw freehand and straight lines with a wide range of stroke sizes.
• Add outlined or solid shapes: rectangles, circles, ovals, and diamonds.
• Choose from 35 colors plus Rainbow.
• Texture everything with a choice of marker, colored-pencil, or watercolor.
• Use controls designed specifically for mouse and keyboard or touch screens.

3. Select and edit

Select one or multiple objects to move, resize, rotate, delete, or change their stacking order. Your edits synchronize with everyone in the room.

Mouse and keyboard:

• Double-click to select.
• Drag to move; use a corner handle to resize and rotate.
• Drag a selection rectangle around multiple objects.
• Use arrow keys to move selections; hold Shift for larger steps.
• Press Delete or Backspace to delete.
• Press Escape to cancel a transformation.
• Fast drag and release up or down to change the stacking order of overlapping objects.
• Click empty space to deselect.

Touch screens:

• Double-tap to select.
• Drag to move.
• Pinch to resize, twist to rotate, or move two fingers together to reposition.
• Use two close fingers outside a selection to select multiple objects.
• Press and hold an object to select it and reveal Delete.
• Flick up or down to change the stacking order of overlapping objects.
• Tap empty space to deselect.

Objects being edited are temporarily reserved so two people can't change the same object at the same time.

4. Erase and undo

• Erase parts or all of existing artwork.
• Undo your own drawing, coloring, erasing, deletion, transformation, and stacking actions.
• Undo with the button, Command+Z, or Control+Z.
• Undo affects your work without reversing unrelated work from other participants.
• If someone has subsequently edited the same object, their newer edit must be undone first.

5. Freeform composition

The Animal library offers freeform composition. Arrange pictures into a scene, combine them with shapes and your own drawings, and color the new areas you create.

• Choose from 70 pictures across Bugs & Crawlers, Dino, Farm, Ocean, and Zoo.
• Arrange, resize, and rotate animals and landscapes to build your composition.
• Draw inside, across, and between pictures to add to the scene, or create new coloring regions.
• Bucket-fill enclosed areas formed by any combination of pictures, drawings, lines, and shapes.
• Fill with solid colors, Rainbow, marker, colored pencil, or watercolor.
• Recolor existing regions and fill enclosed areas created by erasing.
• Combine connected artwork and color-fills into an editable group while preserving drawings and erasures.

6. Structured composition

The Holiday library offers structured composition. Arrange themed pictures into a scene, color their predefined regions, and add your own drawings around or over them.

• Choose from 48 pictures across Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
• Arrange, resize, and rotate characters, decorations, and landscapes to build your composition.
• Color whole pictures or predefined regions while preserving the artwork's structure.
• Color with solid colors, Rainbow, marker, colored pencil, and watercolor.
• Add your own drawings and shapes around or over the themed artwork, but they will remain distinct objects.
• Receive helpful tooltips if you attempt an unsupported freeform composition.

7. Save or start again

• Download your creation as a PNG at any time.
• Keep editing after downloading.
• Clear the shared canvas for everyone after confirmation.
• Create or join new rooms without losing your existing ones.
• Return to the lobby in the same browser to see your recently accessed canvases.

8. Support and accessibility

• Report bugs directly from the app without interrupting your drawings.
• Use named controls, hover descriptions, keyboard controls, and status messages.
• Anonymous usage and performance statistics help identify problems and improve Draw with Us!