Is Drawpile safe?

Drawpile is a collaborative drawing program that lets multiple people draw, sketch, paint and animate on the same canvas simultaneously. The Android version works on both tablets and phones. The program is built for use primarily with a pressure-sensitive pen, but drawing via touch is also possible. If you have any questions, need help with anything or can't manage to get the application working,…

Developer: drawpile
Category: Draw
Earliest archived version: 18 May 2026
License: GPL-3.0-or-later (per F-Droid metadata)

02 / Release notes

Release notes from F-Droid

23 Sept 2026

2.3.1-beta.2

Support for exporting video for animations and timelapses on Android, Android 16 support, better session resumption, project playback and more. See the webstie for the.

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18 May 2026

2.3.1-beta.1

Autorecovery and automatic resumption of canvases when Android terminates the application in the background, dynamic UI scaling options on startup, stylus support and workarounds for Wacom MovinkPad, OnePlus and Xiaomi devices, fixes for immediate disconnects upon joining, brush stroke previews…

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03 / Package identity

Technical fingerprint

Application IDnet.drawpile

Latest APK SHA-256712f65bfeddc05891b46890ccefc399ebc45712dd0d3e32bb7bed2bdbfb16c23

Signing certificate67:45:21:8B:DD:30:30:C2:14:7F:B9:2D:4B:D2:B3:5B:84:F3:D2:BC:49:26:1C:7A:5B:CB:22:0B:BD:34:D0:A8

MIN ANDROID30TARGET35ARCHITECTUREx86_64

04 / History

Archive history

2 versions in WIKI archive: earliest 2.3.1-beta.1 (18 May 2026), latest 2.3.1-beta.2 (23 Sept 2026).

No change in android.permission.* between 2.3.1-beta.1 and 2.3.1-beta.2.

05 / Version archive

Documented releases

2 TOTAL

VersionReleasedAndroidArchitecture

2.3.1-beta.223 Sept 202630+x86_64→2.3.1-beta.118 May 202630+x86_64→

06 / Safety & access

Safety verdict

Authentic — file hash matches the source indexNo ads or tracking flagged by the source

IntegritySHA-256 verified vs source

SourceOpen-source · fdroid

Permissions5 declared · 2 sensitive

Signaturepresent

Anti-featuresNo known anti-features

Sensitive accessREAD_EXTERNAL_STORAGEWRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Declared permissions

android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android.permission.WAKE_LOCK android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

Tracker status: Not assessed by WIKI for Android.

07 / Sources

Evidence ledger

Each entry is a captured public reference backing this record.

RepositorySource package page↗Source codeSource repository↗