DoodleGram is a tiny social network for hand-drawn pictures. There's no polished photography, no influencer feed, no algorithm fighting for your attention — just doodles. You sketch something with your finger or a stylus, write a one-line caption, and post it. Other people see it, tap a heart, and leave a comment. That's the whole thing.
We started DoodleGram because we missed the early days of the internet, when people made small ugly things and shared them with strangers for no reason. Modern social apps have gotten very good at showing you the most optimised content in the world. We wanted somewhere you could post a bad drawing of your cat in under thirty seconds and have it actually land in front of a few real humans.
1. Draw or upload. Tap the plus button in the top-left of the feed and pick "draw" to open the in-app canvas, or "upload" to bring in a picture you already have. Either way the result has to look like a doodle — a quick check verifies that, so the feed stays focused on hand-drawn art rather than photographs.
2. It goes live. A doodle you draw in the app posts straight to the feed. An image you upload instead gets a quick review first — to keep the feed hand-drawn — so it can take a little while before it appears publicly.
3. Get seen. Approved doodles drop into the everyone feed, ranked freshest-first with a small boost for posts that are getting early likes. Signed-in users also get a "following" feed showing only the doodlers they follow.
4. Compete in the daily top 3. Every twenty-four hours, the three most-liked doodles from that day get pinned to the top 3 tab with a tiny gold-silver-bronze rosette. The board resets at midnight UTC, so a slow start in the morning isn't fatal — a viral late-night doodle can still take the gold.
DoodleGram is for people who can't draw, mostly. Professional illustrators are welcome, but the social contract here is that nobody's trying too hard. The doodles that do best are usually scrawled, weird, and finished in under a minute. If you're nervous about posting, picture the kind of thing you'd draw in the margin of a notebook during a boring meeting — that's the level.
Captions are in whatever language the poster speaks. Likes don't care about language.
Every line in DoodleGram's interface — buttons, boxes, icons, the little flourishes around tab labels — is rendered as a hand-drawn sketch, generated fresh on each device using a deterministic wobble. The fonts are Patrick Hand and Caveat, two of the better free hand-drawn typefaces. The colour palette is paper, cream, ink, and four highlighter shades. We did all of this on purpose: the goal is for the interface to feel like the kind of place where a bad doodle obviously belongs.
A few quick ones below; the full list lives on the FAQ page, and the house rules are on the community guidelines page.
Is DoodleGram free? Yes. There's no paid tier and no subscription. The web version shows a small number of ads (currently Google AdSense, spliced into the feed once every few posts) to cover hosting. We may add an optional cosmetic shop later but posting and viewing will stay free forever.
What can I post? Anything that looks like a doodle — wobbly lines, simple shapes, a hand-drawn feel. The content check cares about the look, not the subject or how skilled you are. A photograph of your cat won't get through; a quick scribble of your cat will. Keep it in the spirit of the place.
Do I need an account? To view doodles, no. To post, like, comment, or follow, yes. Sign up is one tap — pick an email and a display name, optionally a unique handle, and choose one of our preset doodle avatars (we don't take avatar uploads, partly to keep moderation manageable and partly because the presets are cute).
Can I delete my account? Yes. Email us and we'll remove your account and your posts. There are no dark patterns keeping you in.
How do you handle bad content? Every post passes through a content gate before going live. Reported posts go to a human moderator who can remove them and warn or ban the author. We err strongly on the side of removing harassment, hate speech, sexual content, content involving minors, or anything illegal.
Is there an iPhone app? Not yet — for now DoodleGram lives on the web at doodlegram.app, and it works fine straight from a phone browser. A dedicated iPhone app is in the works. An Android app is not on the roadmap yet.
Found a bug, want to tell us about something, or curious whether we'll cover some specific use case? Email us and a human will answer within a few days.
For common questions, see the FAQ; for the house rules, the community guidelines. For privacy questions, see the privacy page, and for acceptable use, the terms of service.