Collaborative drawing

Drawpile

Status: active
Available: Sourcecode, binary for Windows, Linux, Mac.

Toolset favours painterly art, very few features for pixelated art.
Drawpile is probably the most common and supported.
Relatively easy to use.
Has centralized index server.
https://drawpile.net/ - Download
https://github.com/drawpile/Drawpile - Source

Shi_PaintChat

Status: abandoned since 2005
Available: Java applets, decompiled sourcecode.

Toolset favours pixelated art, has painterly features.
A classic. Comfortable user interface with a few catches(try rightclicking/ctrlclicking the toolbars).
Largely unusable today due to being a Java applet.
Also due to being Java, decompile and update attempts exist. TODO
https://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA016309/paintchat/download.html - Download

ParuPaint

Status: hiatus since 2016
Available: Sourcecode, binaries for Windows, Linux, Mac.

Simple, pixelated toolset.
Very minimal user interface that requires learning keyboard shortcuts to properly use.
A web client exists for it, but usage is not documented.
http://parupaint.sqnya.se/ - Download
https://github.com/parulina/parupaint - Source
https://github.com/parulina/parupaint-web - Web client source

Open_Canvas_1.1b72

Status: changed since 2003
Available: Binary for Windows

Simple, painterly toolset.
A classic. Simple and easy to use interface.
This tool was once freeware, but became commercial and lost its networking feature.
Buggy networking feature.
http://www.flat2d.com/opencanvas_en.aspx - Downloads and info
http://wistinga.online.fr/opencanvas/ - Download
http://bw.ravenworks.ca/ - 3rd party server. Native windows, no source.
http://web.archive.org/web/20090621224521/http://www.warpaint.se:80/?s=download - 3rd party server. Java, source.

NyanChat

Status: hiatus since 2011

Mixed toolset, features input smoothing.
Rather awkward user interface.
http://npaint.sakura.ne.jp/nyanchat/ - Download

The_Powder_Toy_+_Multiplayer_Script

Status: active
Available: Sourcecode, binary for Windows, Linux, Mac.

Game's features make for rudimentary pixelated toolset.
The Powder Toy is a sand physics simulator. With the added multiplayer script, it makes for an improvised collaborative drawing tool.
The game has LUA modding API, so this idea can be expanded further.
https://powdertoy.co.uk/ - Download
https://github.com/ThePowderToy/The-Powder-Toy - Sourcecode
https://powdertoy.co.uk/Discussions/Thread/View.html?Thread=19400 - Script manager
https://powdertoy.co.uk/Discussions/Thread/View.html?Thread=18198 - Multiplayer script

Drawing applets:
- PaintBBS
- ShiPainter
- OkakiBBS
- ChibiPaint

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