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15 pictures · 24 colours · no sign-up

Colouring pages, in your browser

Pick a picture and start colouring — no account, no download, nothing to print. Every drawing here was drawn by us, so there is nothing you have to buy or sign up for. When you want company, send a link and somebody else can colour the same sheet with you, at the same time.

Colour one right now

This one is yours alone — nothing is sent anywhere. Pick a colour, pick a crayon, and go. Save it as a PNG when it is finished.

Colour it with somebody else

The same sheet, opened as a room. Whoever you send the link to sees your colour appear as you put it down, and you see theirs. Up to 16 people, and it works fine with just two.

  1. 15 pictures to colour, all drawn for this site.
  2. 24 colours and 3 crayon sizes, plus a rubber.
  3. Undo only takes back colour you put down yourself.
  4. Save the finished sheet as a PNG.

You get a link. Send it to whoever should be colouring with you.

Private by default. There is no public list and no way for a stranger to wander in — the link is the door.

How it works

  1. Pick a picture

    There are 15 of them — a butterfly, a cat, a flower, a house, an elephant, a bicycle and more. They are line drawings, which means large empty shapes waiting for colour. Every one was drawn for this site from scratch, so there is no character you have to have heard of and nothing behind a paywall.

  2. Colour it in

    Tap or drag with a mouse, a finger or a pen. Three crayon sizes: a thick one for skies and backgrounds, a fine one for eyes and petals. Going over the lines does not spoil anything — the drawing is printed on top of your colour, so the outline stays crisp no matter how enthusiastic you get.

  3. Keep it, or share the sheet

    Save what you made as a PNG, put together inside your own browser tab. Or open the same picture as a shared sheet, send the link, and watch somebody else fill in the parts you have not got to yet.

The pictures you can colour

  • Butterfly
  • Cat
  • Flower
  • Fish
  • House
  • Apple
  • Mug
  • Boat
  • Umbrella
  • Elephant
  • Bicycle
  • Guitar
  • Star
  • Moon
  • Hand

Drawings that are actually ours to give away

Search for something to colour in and most of what comes back is somebody else's character. That is the whole business for a lot of colouring sites, and it is also why so many of them quietly disappear, put everything behind a login, or bury the page in adverts that are worth more than the drawing. Every picture here was drawn for this site — the outline of the butterfly is a list of coordinates somebody wrote, not a scan of anything. It is a smaller collection because of that. It is also a collection nobody can take away.

Colouring stopped being a solo activity somewhere along the way

On paper it never was. Two children colour the same page all the time — one does the sky while the other does the grass, and they argue about the wings. Every colouring site we could find has quietly dropped that half: you get a picture, you get some colours, and you are on your own with it. Open a sheet here as a room and the other half comes back. You watch somebody else's colour arrive while you are still working on your bit, and the picture fills in from two directions at once.

The thing that has to be protected in a shared sheet is your own work, which is why undo is deliberately narrow. It takes back colour you put down, restoring whatever was underneath, and it skips anything somebody else has coloured over since — rolling those back would be quietly deleting their work. Clearing the whole sheet is left to the person who opened it.

Nothing you colour leaves your browser

The PNG is assembled inside your own tab, from the colours on your own screen. It is never uploaded, never processed on a server and never turned into anything else. In a shared sheet the colours do travel — they have to, or the other person could not see them — but they travel as small notes saying which square went which colour, they live only in the room, and the room deletes itself three hours after the last bit of colour goes down.

If you would rather draw than colour, Draw Together is the same room with a blank canvas in it, and trace and compare uses these same fifteen drawings as something to practise against. On your own, Doodle Dash is sixty seconds of prompts.

Same genre as the colouring apps people already have on their phones — Happy Color, Colorfy — except the page is shared, so somebody else can colour it in with you.

Questions people ask

Is it really free?
Yes. There is no account, no email, no download and no paid tier hiding the good pictures. You open the page and colour. The only thing stored about you is the nickname you type if you open a shared sheet, and that goes away when the room does.
Where do the pictures come from?
All 15 of them were drawn for this site, line by line, as coordinates in the code. None of them are traced from anybody else's artwork, none came from a stock library, and none of them are cartoon characters that belong to someone else. That is a deliberate choice: it means the pictures are genuinely ours to give away, and it means we can promise the same thing tomorrow.
Can two people colour the same picture at once?
Yes, and that is the part you will not find elsewhere. Open a shared sheet, send the link, and up to 16 people can colour the same picture at the same time. Each square of colour is sent on its own as a tiny message, so what you put down appears on their screen almost immediately, and theirs on yours. Two people reaching for the same spot is not a problem: the last colour to land is the one that stays.
What happens if I colour outside the lines?
Nothing bad. Your colour goes underneath the drawing, not on top of it, so the black outline is always the last thing drawn and always stays sharp. Overshooting an edge shows up as colour spilling past the line — the same as it does with real crayons, which is rather the point.
Can somebody ruin what we have coloured?
Undo only ever takes back colour you put down yourself, and only where nobody has coloured over it since — so nobody can undo their way through your work. Anything unwanted can be coloured straight back over by anyone in the room. The person who opened the sheet can also clear it, change the picture, or remove somebody from the room.
Can a stranger find our sheet?
No. There is no public list of sheets, no browse page and no matchmaking button here, so the only way in is the link you send. A code is six characters out of thirty-two, which is over a billion combinations — guessing one is not a practical way to spend an afternoon. Sheets also close on their own three hours after the last bit of colour.
Do I need to print anything?
No. This is colouring in the browser, not a printable to run off first — nothing to download, no printer, no ink. If you would rather colour on paper, a screenshot of the empty sheet prints perfectly well, but nothing here needs it.
Can I save what I coloured?
Yes, as a PNG. The image is put together inside your own browser tab from the colours on screen — nothing you colour is uploaded anywhere to be turned into a picture. The unpainted parts come out as white paper rather than transparent, so the file is a finished picture you can print, send or set as a background.
How is this different from a colouring app like Happy Color?
Those are colour-by-number: the app decides which colour belongs in which numbered region. Here nothing is numbered and nothing is scored — you pick the colours and fill the shapes however you like, on your own or with other people on the same page. Nothing to install, and the finished page saves as a PNG.

Something else to make

When the sheet is finished.

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