Frequently asked questions

No, it's completely free. No payments, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases.

No. You can draw the moment you open the page. Your browser makes a random code for you. We don't ask for an email or a password.

Only up to 100 birds fly in the sky at once, so in a crowd yours may have to wait in line. Pick “Newest” from the Show menu and your bird comes to the front. If your bird got a few reports, it comes down from the sky until an admin looks at it.

The part above the dashed line on the canvas flaps like a wing, and the part below stays as the body. Try drawing the wings above the line. The drawing lessons show this step by step.

Choose the bucket from the tools, pick a color and tap inside the shape. A closed shape fills in one go. If there's a gap in the edge, the paint spills out, so close the shape.

You can have at most 8 birds at the same time. For a new bird, you can delete an old one from Profile.

Yes. Copy the recovery code in Profile, open DrawBird on your phone and paste it into Profile → Sign in with code. Don't share the code with anyone.

Your device code is deleted and you can't reach your birds from that device. If you saved the recovery code beforehand, you can enter it again.

Tap the bird and press "Report". A bird that gets three reports (two on its first day) comes down from the sky right away and goes to the admin.

The "Delete all my data" button in Profile permanently deletes your birds, votes, reports, flocks and artist name.

You do. DrawBird only gets permission to show them on the site and as a preview in share links. We don't sell your drawing or print it on products. Details in the terms of use.

The game comes in 11 languages: Turkish, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Russian, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian. The language is picked based on your browser, and you can change it from the menu.

Yes. Choose "Add to Home Screen" from your browser menu. DrawBird opens like an app.

Yes. It is on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 license.