Play Pictionary online, free, with friends

Drawdle is a free online Pictionary game for friends, family and teams. One player draws a word, everyone else races to guess it in the chat, and the quickest right answers score the most. Make a room, send the link on WhatsApp or Slack, and play in your browser on a phone or a laptop. No app, no sign-up, no ads.

It is the classic party game Pictionary, without the board, the sand timer or the hunt for a pencil that works: the game keeps time, shows hints and counts the points, so everyone can just draw and laugh.

How to play

1. Type your name and create a room.
2. Share the invite link. Up to 16 people can join.
3. On your turn, pick one of the words offered and draw it.
4. Everyone else types guesses. The sooner you guess right, the more points you get, and the drawer scores for every right guess.
5. Everyone draws once each round. Most points after the last round wins.

Letters of the word appear as the clock runs down, so even a hopeless drawing usually ends with somebody getting it. A guess that is nearly right gets a private nudge, and once you have guessed it your messages stay hidden from the players still trying. Full rules, scoring and drawing tips.

Words for every group

Pick the word packs your group will enjoy: everyday things, animals, food and drink, places, nature, sports, tech, jobs, fantasy, actions, office stuff and corporate slang. Set the difficulty to Easy for kids, Mixed for most groups, or Hard for properly abstract words like “procrastinate”.

The Desi pack is made for Indian players: samosa, cutting chai, gully cricket, Holi, auto rickshaw, Sholay, jugaad and 150 more. See every Desi word.

There is a Diwali pack too, from diyas and mithai boxes to the office party: see the Diwali Pictionary words and a plan for a 15-minute office game.

Or add up to 500 of your own words: family nicknames, office in-jokes, this week's class vocabulary. Play with only your words, or mix them in.

Playing on paper instead? The random Pictionary word generator deals a word with a timer and team scores, and all 1,764 words are listed by theme and difficulty.

Who plays Drawdle

Friends on a night in

Everyone on their own phone, in the same room or across cities. One link in the group chat and you are playing.

Families on a video call

Grandparents, cousins and kids together on Zoom, Meet or WhatsApp video, each drawing on their own screen. Easy words keep the youngest in the game.

Remote teams

A fifteen-minute icebreaker for stand-ups and offsites. The corporate slang pack makes managers draw “synergy”.

Classrooms

Load the week's vocabulary as custom words and let students draw them. More ideas for online Pictionary games.

Looking for a skribbl.io alternative?

If you have played skribbl.io, you already know how Drawdle works. Rooms are private to the people you invite, the screen fits a phone even with the keyboard open, the host sets rounds, draw time, hints and words, and nobody has to make an account. Your old comma-separated word lists paste straight in. Compare Drawdle and skribbl.io.