What's New

iOS 17 compatibility, including a fix for save not working after the first time.

Happy doodling!

- Jeff

App 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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Support email - [email protected]

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • June 11, 2014 Initial release
  • July 24, 2014 New version 4.7.3
  • August 12, 2014 New version 4.8.2
  • August 20, 2014 New version 4.8.3
  • September 09, 2014 New version 4.9
  • October 01, 2014 New version 5.1
  • October 07, 2014 New version 5.1.1
  • November 08, 2014 New version 5.3
  • November 13, 2014 New version 5.3.1
  • January 27, 2015 New version 5.5
  • April 15, 2015 New version 5.7.2
  • April 27, 2015 New version 5.8
  • May 10, 2015 New version 5.8.1
  • June 11, 2015 New version 5.8.2
  • June 14, 2015 New version 5.8.3
  • June 28, 2015 New version 5.8.4
  • July 15, 2015 New version 5.8.5
  • August 13, 2015 New version 5.8.6
  • September 22, 2015 New version 5.9
  • October 18, 2015 New version 5.9.1
  • November 14, 2015 New version 5.9.2
  • November 16, 2015 New version 5.9.3
  • December 12, 2015 New version 6.0
  • December 15, 2015 New version 6.1
  • January 09, 2016 New version 6.2
  • January 24, 2016 New version 6.2.2
  • February 01, 2016 New version 6.2.3
  • February 14, 2016 New version 6.3
  • February 19, 2016 New version 6.3.1
  • February 19, 2016 New version 6.3.1
  • March 22, 2016 New version 6.4
  • June 30, 2016 New version 6.6
  • July 21, 2016 New version 6.6.1
  • July 29, 2016 New version 6.6.3
  • August 03, 2016 New version 6.6.4
  • August 11, 2016 New version 6.6.5
  • November 07, 2016 New version 7.3.3
  • December 01, 2016 New version 7.3.4
  • December 12, 2016 New version 7.3.5
  • December 16, 2016 New version 7.3.6
  • January 03, 2017 New version 7.3.7
  • June 14, 2019 New version 7.7.5
  • September 26, 2019 New version 7.8.0
  • October 02, 2019 New version 7.8.1
  • October 28, 2019 New version 7.8.2
  • December 24, 2019 New version 7.8.3
  • October 22, 2020 New version 7.8.6
  • November 12, 2020 New version 7.8.7
  • August 06, 2021 New version 7.8.8
  • September 16, 2023 New version 8.2.2
  • November 03, 2023 New version 8.2.5