You Doodle - draw on photos

#1 draw & art app for iPhone

8.3.0 for iPhone, iPad
Free
9.4

13k+ Ratings

Update Date

2024-04-14

Size

54.8 MB

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You Doodle - draw on photos Description
You Doodle has hundreds of tools! You can markup a photo, create a meme or any other type of project you can imagine. You Doodle does it all. Draw on photos, add text, insert shapes, work with layers, blending two photos, placing stamps, stickers, scrapbook with collage and frames plus many more tools are available in You Doodle. You may even create custom stamps and stickers right in the app.

Drawing on photos has never been simpler. You Doodle works in iMessage and the photos app and supports Apple pencil, along with Adonit and Pogo Connect stylus. Dragging in and inserting images from other apps is a snap. No other app lets you draw on a photo as easily as You Doodle.

You Doodle is a full featured art studio and here are some of the features:
- iOS10+: use You Doodle in iMessage to add stickers, GIFs, APNGs, draw on photos, use the camera and much more! Save GIFs from Safari to the You Doodle iMessage app.
- Many draw tools: brush, air-brush, shape and 3D brush, calligraphy pen, eraser, color picker, flood fill (super fast with real-time preview), spray, chalk, recolor (with tolerance), blur, smudge, clone stamp, scissors
- Apple pencil support on iPad Pro
- Backup and restore settings, documents, stickers, colors, etc. between devices!
- Record your drawing for playback as a video
- Create slideshows and import photos, videos and GIFs. Export to Video or GIF. Add music that is downloaded to your device. Add custom watermark with pro version.
- Share to PDF, Instagram, Flickr, Facebook, Sketch Book, Twitter, Tumblr, Dropbox, Weibo, Email, Text Message, Camera Roll, Printer or Copy to Clipboard.
- Split view on supported devices
- Force touch on supported devices
- Import fonts from Safari or other supported apps (zip, ttf, otf)
- Quickly draw and add text with the new photo editor extension
- Save to your sketchbook from other supported apps
- Supports up to 16 megapixel camera images (4096x4096), depending on device
- Gradient tool
- Turn your art into a T-shirt!
- Many blend modes for brush and fill tool
- Add text to your photos with tons of colors, fonts, outlines, glow, 3D, circular, shine, scaling and rotation
- 3D rotation (X, Y, Z) for text and images with perspective (perspective on iOS 7+ only)
- Pixel perfect rotation and placement of text and photos
- Draw in real-time with nearby You Doodle users (iOS 7+ only), everyone must have the same You Doodle version
- Insert multiple images at a time to create a collage
- Draw on top of the first page of your PDF and Office documents from Dropbox
- Use the blender tool to blend the foreground and background in interesting and fun ways
- Tons of cool stamps with offline support once downloaded
- Post your entire photo on Instagram (with square cropping) and other social networks
- Hundreds of picture frames and collages
- Over 30 amazing filters and effects
- Add shapes like arrows to highlight interesting bits in your photos
- Your own personal sketchbook to save your drawings to your device
- Flip, rotate, crop and filter your photos
- Glow effect for draw tools
- Legend creator for maps and other diagrams
- Simple table / spreadsheet creator
- Mask the background to the foreground and filter the background for some really cool effects
- Add custom fonts from your Dropbox folder
- Adonit Touch and Pogo connect stylus integration

Try out You Doodle today, I know you'll love it! I'm just one guy doing everything and I listen to feedback. Please let me know what I can do to improve your You Doodle experience.

- Jeff Johnson

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You Doodle - draw on photos 8.3.0 Update
2024-04-14
I've updated the resize -> background tool to allow anchoring the image in a 3x3 grid. Just tap the location you want in the preview.

Happy doodling!

- Jeff
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Price:
Free
Version:
8.3.0
Size:
54.8 MB
Update Date:
2024-04-14
Developer:
Digital Ruby, LLC
Language:
Arabic Chinese Danish Dutch English French German Italian Japanese Korean Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish

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8.3.0 2024-04-14
I've updated the resize -> background tool to allow anchoring the image in a 3x3 grid. Just tap the location you want in the preview.

Happy doodling!

- Jeff
8.2.5 2023-10-01
iOS 17 compatibility, including a fix for save not working after the first time.

Happy doodling!

- Jeff
8.2.2 2022-11-27
- Bug fixes for sketchbook, especially iPad
- Fixes for image picker to be larger on iPad

- Jeff
8.1.2 2022-11-13
- Fix for landscape sketchbook display

- Jeff
8.1.1 2022-11-11
- Fix for some views in the app on iPad when physical keyboard is being used

- Jeff
8.1.0 2022-11-09
- Export + clear options in sketchbook
- Make more sketchbook entries show per page
- Better performance viewing colors in favorites/recent colors
- Double tap eye dropper to set hex color on pasteboard
- Other misc bug fixes

Thank you for using You Doodle!

- Jeff
8.0.5 2022-11-05
- Full screen mode now has the current draw tool and eraser available

Please have a safe and happy reset of the year everyone!

- Jeff
8.0.3 2022-10-26
- Grid mode can specify a custom width + height
- Improve circular text, especially counter-clockwise
- Theme/color label fixes

More to come...

- Jeff
8.0.2 2022-09-22
- More important bug fixes, including removing the little circle that appeared when drawing

Thanks for the feedback, more to come...

- Jeff
8.0.1 2022-09-21
- Revert camera roll picker back to choosing edited photo. Unfortunately this means png will have white background again sometimes. To fix this, you must turn optimize storage to off then delete the png from local storage.

- Jeff
8.0.0 2022-09-20
I've tried to fix a number of things and improve iOS 16 compatibility. Here is the full list:

- Fix iOS 16 photo editing extension.
- Fix number selection view in photo editing extension.
- Fix PNG images imported and losing transparency.
- Fix "Save As" option not showing when saving to sketchbook.
- Fix share extension appearance.
- Fix share extension to sketchbook not showing up. You may have to swipe the full app up and out and re-open it for the sketchbook document to show up.

I have some more enhancements coming in a future update. Thanks for using You Doodle!

- Jeff
7.9.3 2022-02-02
- Fix sketchbook not saving properly in some cases
- Fix an issue where shapes did not save properly if confirmation dialogs were turned off.
- Fix issue with gradient tool "light source" single tap function.

Happy 2022!

- Jeff
7.9.0 2021-09-26
- iOS 15 compatibility
- Fix shapes on iOS 15

Happy doodling!

- Jeff
7.8.7 2020-11-01
- Fix for multipeer networking on iOS 14 for draw with friends feature.

:)

- Jeff
7.8.6 2020-10-06
I added a more fonts option for iOS 13 or newer to get back to the old font picker.

- Jeff
7.8.5 2020-10-05
- Switch to iOS font picker (iOS 13 or newer only)

Happy doodling!

- Jeff
7.8.4 2020-09-24
- iOS 14 compatibility and general update

Thanks for using You Doodle!

- Jeff
7.8.3 2019-12-20
- Attempt to fix the issue saving more than one photo per day
7.8.2 2019-10-23
- Fix other text boxes with wrong colors
- Fix theme changing unexpectedly on iOS 13

Have a most wonderful day!

- Jeff
7.8.1 2019-10-02
- Fix share and share as options
- Fix save to Instagram option (renamed to save -> square) for generic square image saving.

- Jeff
7.8.0 2019-09-25
You Doodle 5.8.0 is here with iOS 13 support! Here's what I've done:

- Long tap on list of font names to see a preview of your text with that font.
- Add 7.7x10 crop ratio.
- Remove Facebook integration, your privacy matters.
- (iOS 13+ only) Add dark mode support.
- Use secure (https) connections for everything.
- Fix Instagram share on iOS 13.
- Fix for some text field text not showing up properly.

Known issues:
- iOS 13 Critical Bug - Small PNG images do not save with transparency to camera roll. Save to sketchbook or other destinations until Apple fixes this bug.
- iOS 13 Critical Bug - Full screen recording is VERY slow. Use control center instead until Apple fixes this bug.

Happy doodling!

- Jeff
7.7.5 2019-04-07
- Bug fixes

Have a wonderful day!

- Jeff
7.7.4 2019-03-04
- Add clear option for recent colors
- Allow changing scissor tool width
- Fix email original size option to work again

Have a wonderful day!

- Jeff
7.7.3 2019-01-18
- iOS 9 crash fix for jpeg saving
- Fix sliders when rotating device

Thanks for using You Doodle, have a wonderful day!

- Jeff
7.7.2 2019-01-11
- Add jpeg quality option (use file -> save as -> jpeg).
- Apple pencil long press now shows zoom bubble.
- Fix black skin background image not loading.
- Add red bubble custom image size to list.
- Fix long tap on tools in the toolbox to add/remove them from the draw tools list. Not all tools can go in the draw tool list.

Thanks for your support, have a wonderful day!

- Jeff
7.7.1 2018-10-04
- Scissors tool paste will not resize image larger automatically anymore.

Hope you are having a wonderful day!

- Jeff
7.7.0 2018-09-15
Updates and bug fixes for iOS 12 and new iPhone compatibility.
7.6.9 2018-09-07
- Fix for text not showing up with opacity of 0
- Remove location request until you save a JPG (you can still decline to not share the location). If you accept, your location will be embedded inside the JPG.

Have a wonderful day!

- Jeff
7.6.8 2018-08-25
- Fix draw tool layout on iPad in photo editor extension

Thanks for using You Doodle!

- Jeff
7.6.7 2018-07-18
I finally got single tap flood fill working with Apple Pencil. Yea!!!

Thanks for using You Doodle!

- Jeff
7.6.6 2018-05-24
- Fix issue with flood fill tool and stylus. You still have to drag the stylus to get the flood fill menu to appear at the bottom, but it won't appear right away like before.

Please share You Doodle with your friends and family, the app is no longer supporting my family fully and I have had to look for additional ways to support the family. Thanks so much!

- Jeff
7.6.5 2018-04-17
- Fix font outline size
- More iPhone X fixes

Thanks for doodling!

- Jeff
7.6.4 2018-03-14
- Fix sketchbook on iPhone X
- Fix common image sizes button being off-centered on iPad

Thanks for using You Doodle! Send me your questions, feedback and bug reports :)

- Jeff
7.6.3 2017-11-20
- Fixes for iPhone X

Thanks for using You Doodle!

- Jeff
7.6.2 2017-10-27
- Really fix text outline problem on iOS 11
- Change export option on iOS 11 to allow OneDrive and others to show up. You can still pick the files app to get the previous options.

Thanks for using You Doodle!

- Jeff
7.6.1 2017-10-13
- Fix iMessage and photos app toolbar on iOS 11
- Add TIF as a save/share as option
- Fix "Other Apps" button on iOS 11
- Fix cancel button on save view on iOS 11

Thanks for using You Doodle, have a super-duper day!

- Jeff
7.6.0 2017-09-23
iOS 11 and iPhone X compatibility. For iOS 11, on supported devices you can drag images into You Doodle and insert them into your project, or drag into the slideshow tool.

Thanks so much for using You Doodle, I appreciate each and every one of you!

- Jeff, solo indie developer
7.5.91 2017-07-06
This is Jeff, creator of You Doodle. Thanks for using the app and sharing it with your friends and family. It really helps me continue work on the app.

Version 7.5.9.1 brings you:
- I went to WWDC and had some Apple designers review the app. They highly recommended only having draw tools in the bottom toolbar. So all the other tools are now accessible only using the tools button at the top.
- However, you can long tap most tools in the toolbox view to add or remove them from the toolbar!
- Two finger tap to undo (two fingers at once), three finger tap to redo (three fingers at once).
- Bug and crash fixes of course!

Thanks again for your support, I surely appreciate it.

- Jeff
7.5.9 2017-06-25
This is Jeff, creator of You Doodle. Thanks for using the app and sharing it with your friends and family. It really helps me continue work on the app.

Version 7.5.9 brings you:
- I went to WWDC and had some Apple designers review the app. They highly recommended only having draw tools in the bottom toolbar. So all the other tools are now accessible only using the tools button at the top.
- Two finger tap to undo (two fingers at once), three finger tap to redo (three fingers at once).
- Bug and crash fixes of course!
- Increase WebP quality when saving to sketchbook or loading previous drawing.
- Sliders get a label to the left showing you the value. Tap this label to enter an exact value.
- Sliders maintain a history of values for you to quickly select from when you tap the slider label, long tap the slider or triple tap the slider.
- Importing PDF, DOC, DOCX, etc. works again.
- Saving to "Other Apps" will force an image file name if one is not specified (i.e. .png or .jpg, etc.)

Thanks again for your support, I surely appreciate it.

- Jeff
7.5.8 2017-05-19
This is Jeff, creator of You Doodle. Thanks for using the app and sharing it with your friends and family. It really helps me continue work on the app.

Version 7.5.8 brings you:
- Bug and crash fixes for sliders and "other apps" saving.
- Increase WebP quality when saving to sketchbook or loading previous drawing.
- Sliders get a label to the left showing you the value. Tap this label to enter an exact value.
- Sliders maintain a history of values for you to quickly select from when you tap the slider label, long tap the slider or triple tap the slider.
- Importing PDF, DOC, DOCX, etc. works again.
- Saving to "Other Apps" will force an image file name if one is not specified (i.e. .png or .jpg, etc.)

Thanks again for your support, I surely appreciate it.

- Jeff
7.5.7 2017-05-16
This is Jeff, creator of You Doodle. Thanks for using the app and sharing it with your friends and family. It really helps me continue work on the app.

Version 7.5.7 brings you:
- Bug and crash fixes for sliders and "other apps" saving.
- Increase WebP quality when saving to sketchbook or loading previous drawing.
- Sliders get a label to the left showing you the value. Tap this label to enter an exact value.
- Sliders maintain a history of values for you to quickly select from when you tap the slider label, long tap the slider or triple tap the slider.
- Importing PDF, DOC, DOCX, etc. works again.
- Saving to "Other Apps" will force an image file name if one is not specified (i.e. .png or .jpg, etc.)

Thanks again for your support, I surely appreciate it.

- Jeff
7.5.6 2017-05-13
This is Jeff, creator of You Doodle. Thanks for using the app and sharing it with your friends and family. It really helps me continue work on the app.

Version 7.5.6 brings you:
- Sliders get a label to the left showing you the value. Tap this label to enter an exact value.
- Sliders maintain a history of values for you to quickly select from when you tap the slider label, long tap the slider or triple tap the slider.
- Importing PDF, DOC, DOCX, etc. works again.
- Saving to "Other Apps" will force an image file name if one is not specified (i.e. .png or .jpg, etc.)

Thanks again for your support, I surely appreciate it.

- Jeff
7.5.5 2017-05-03
Hi everyone! I've spent 2 months on version 7.5-7.5.5 and I have a big list of great stuff for you!
- Remove all watermarks
- Resize tool now gives option for image or background (canvas)
- Add preview to resize tool
- Smudge tool bug fixes
- Allow changing the file name when saving to other apps
- Keep file name when importing from other apps
- Move settings back to top bar, and move the news button inside the settings view in the top left
- Add undo, redo and frames to toolbar.
- Save previous project as webp, reducing the disk space You Doodle takes up.
- Increase compression of undo/redo buffer on disk, reducing the disk space You Doodle takes up.
- Crash fixes.
- You Doodle has an updated UI that puts the draw tools front and center. PLEASE watch the new UI tutorial video in the app by tapping the you doodle icon in the top right.
- Swipe up or down on the new draw tools toolbar to move it to the top or bottom of the screen.
- Long tap and drag draw tools to different places on the draw tools toolbar.
- New sketchbook projects now save with the WebP image format, massively reducing their size and saving you precious space on your device.
- Dropbox is now accessed exclusively through the "Other Apps" button.
- Fix stickers not loading in photo editing extension.
- When recording your draw view, you can choose whether or not to render the background in your final video, and you can choose a background color.
- New blend modes for some draw tools.
- Max favorite and recent color count increased to 1000.
- Blur and smudge tools work better with translucent pixels.
- Brush, air brush and shape brush now work with opacity 0 and act as an eraser.

Thanks so much for using You Doodle. I'm trying my best to continue to make this the best drawing and art app on iOS. I appreciate any feedback or bug reports.

- Jeff
7.5.4 2017-05-03
Hi everyone! I've spent 2 months on version 7.5-7.5.4 and I have a big list of great stuff for you!
- Resize tool now gives option for image or background (canvas)
- Add preview to resize tool
- Smudge tool bug fixes
- Allow changing the file name when saving to other apps
- Keep file name when importing from other apps
- Move settings back to top bar, and move the news button inside the settings view in the top left
- Add undo, redo and frames to toolbar.
- Save previous project as webp, reducing the disk space You Doodle takes up.
- Increase compression of undo/redo buffer on disk, reducing the disk space You Doodle takes up.
- Crash fixes.
- You Doodle has an updated UI that puts the draw tools front and center. PLEASE watch the new UI tutorial video in the app by tapping the you doodle icon in the top right.
- Swipe up or down on the new draw tools toolbar to move it to the top or bottom of the screen.
- Long tap and drag draw tools to different places on the draw tools toolbar.
- New sketchbook projects now save with the WebP image format, massively reducing their size and saving you precious space on your device.
- Dropbox is now accessed exclusively through the "Other Apps" button.
- Fix stickers not loading in photo editing extension.
- When recording your draw view, you can choose whether or not to render the background in your final video, and you can choose a background color.
- New blend modes for some draw tools.
- Max favorite and recent color count increased to 1000.
- Blur and smudge tools work better with translucent pixels.
- Brush, air brush and shape brush now work with opacity 0 and act as an eraser.

Thanks so much for using You Doodle. I'm trying my best to continue to make this the best drawing and art app on iOS. I appreciate any feedback or bug reports.

- Jeff
7.5.3 2017-04-30
Hi everyone! I've spent 2 months on version 7.5 and I have a big list of great stuff for you!
- Smudge tool bug fixes
- Allow changing the file name when saving to other apps
- Keep file name when importing from other apps
- Move settings back to top bar, and move the news button inside the settings view in the top left
- Add undo, redo and frames to toolbar.
- Save previous project as webp, reducing the disk space You Doodle takes up.
- Increase compression of undo/redo buffer on disk, reducing the disk space You Doodle takes up.
- Crash fixes.
- You Doodle has an updated UI that puts the draw tools front and center. PLEASE watch the new UI tutorial video in the app by tapping the you doodle icon in the top right.
- Swipe up or down on the new draw tools toolbar to move it to the top or bottom of the screen.
- Long tap and drag draw tools to different places on the draw tools toolbar.
- New sketchbook projects now save with the WebP image format, massively reducing their size and saving you precious space on your device.
- Dropbox is now accessed exclusively through the "Other Apps" button.
- Fix stickers not loading in photo editing extension.
- When recording your draw view, you can choose whether or not to render the background in your final video, and you can choose a background color.
- New blend modes for some draw tools.
- Max favorite and recent color count increased to 1000.
- Blur and smudge tools work better with translucent pixels.
- Brush, air brush and shape brush now work with opacity 0 and act as an eraser.

Thanks so much for using You Doodle. I'm trying my best to continue to make this the best drawing and art app on iOS. I appreciate any feedback or bug reports.

- Jeff
7.5.2 2017-04-21
Hi everyone! I've spent 2 months on version 7.5 and I have a big list of great stuff for you!
- Add undo, redo and frames to toolbar.
- Save previous project as webp, reducing the disk space You Doodle takes up.
- Increase compression of undo/redo buffer on disk, reducing the disk space You Doodle takes up.
- Crash fixes.
- You Doodle has an updated UI that puts the draw tools front and center. PLEASE watch the new UI tutorial video in the app by tapping the you doodle icon in the top right.
- Swipe up or down on the new draw tools toolbar to move it to the top or bottom of the screen.
- Long tap and drag draw tools to different places on the draw tools toolbar.
- New sketchbook projects now save with the WebP image format, massively reducing their size and saving you precious space on your device.
- Dropbox is now accessed exclusively through the "Other Apps" button.
- Fix stickers not loading in photo editing extension.
- When recording your draw view, you can choose whether or not to render the background in your final video, and you can choose a background color.
- New blend modes for some draw tools.
- Max favorite and recent color count increased to 1000.
- Blur and smudge tools work better with translucent pixels.
- Brush, air brush and shape brush now work with opacity 0 and act as an eraser.

Thanks so much for using You Doodle. I'm trying my best to continue to make this the best drawing and art app on iOS. I appreciate any feedback or bug reports.

- Jeff