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/
https://github.com/drawpile/Drawpile

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

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/
https://github.com/parulina/parupaint
https://github.com/parulina/parupaint-web

Open Canvas 1

Status: abandoned since 2003
Available: binary for Windows

Simple, painterly toolset.
A classic. Simple and easy to use interface.
This tool was once freeware with networking function. Became comm
Supposedly unstable
http://www.flat2d.com/opencanvas_en.aspx
http://wistinga.online.fr/opencanvas/
http://bw.ravenworks.ca/

NyanChat

The Powder Toy + Multiplayer Script

Drawing applets:
- PaintBBS
- ShiPainter
- OkakiBBS
- ChibiPaint

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