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Google's stripped-back sketchpad — pencil, pen, marker, chalk — with pressure support and absolutely no other features.
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Chrome Canvas sits in Drawing Toys under Make, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Generative brushes and cursor instruments. You are not drawing so much as steering something that is already drawing, which removes blank-canvas anxiety entirely.
Yes. Chrome Canvas is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Chrome Canvas without signing up for anything.
Yes. Chrome Canvas works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Move the mouse and flowers, mushrooms and grass sprout underneath it while a music box plays. No tools, no undo, no point.
Paint with thick wet oils that pile up, smear and catch the light exactly like the real thing, entirely in a browser tab.
Mr Doob's sketching toy, where strokes web themselves together with connecting threads and turn scribbles into shading.
Painting app with layers, symmetry and a genuinely good brush engine, loading instantly and uploading nothing anywhere.
Scanned American newspapers from 1770 to 1963, full-text searchable, which is a dangerous thing to discover on a weeknight.
How far you can get by train from any European station in five hours, drawn as coloured bands. Ruinous for an afternoon's productivity.
Paint over the tourist, the bin or the power line and it fills in whatever should have been behind them.
Fill-in-the-blank sentences mined from real corpora, aimed squarely at people who have outgrown the beginner apps.
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