Paint chat

Paint chats are online chat rooms that allow its participants to draw together in real-time while they chat. The chat box is usually at the bottom, with the drawing area on top. Paint chats GeneRally attract the same demographics as Oekakis. Anime characters are a popular subject.

Applications

Groupboard

Groupboard is based on a multi-user drawing/chat java applet that was developed for the Etchinghill Studios website in March 1997. The applet was further developed so that multiple whiteboard and chat sessions could be hosted on the same server, and in 1998 it was released as http://www.Groupboard.com. Since then over 90,000 people have set up their own Groupboard.

PaintChatApp

PaintChatApp (or just Paintchat) is a prevalent paint chat application on the Internet. Paintchat is closed-source freeware, and consists of a Java server application and a Java client applet. It was originally developed in 2000 by Japanese programmer Shi-chan (http://shichan.jp), last version released in 2003, and has enjoyed significant popularity.

openCanvas

Some users desire drawing sessions of a more intimate nature. A popular software application for this is openCanvas, whose old freeware versions featured network support. One user will host the session. openCanvas accepts up to 3 other users via incoming TCP connections. None of these features exist in openCanvas 2.x and later. Copies of oC11b72.exe (openCanvas 1.1b72) remain in wide circulation on the Internet because of this.

Twiddla

Twiddla (http://www.twiddla.com/) is a browser based paint chat tool with voice support and a focus towards hosting web meetings. It has been live since April 2007.

Sketcher

Sketcher1 is similar to Paintchat. Last version released in 2007.

iScribble

iScribble2

ja:お絵かきチャット