A free online SVG editor made for drawing

Scribl turns what you draw into clean vector paths. Draw with a brush, drop color into your lines with a bucket, and download a small, tidy SVG file. It runs in your browser, costs nothing and needs no account.

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Draw first, the vectors follow

Most SVG editors ask you to place points and pull handles. Scribl works the other way round: you draw freehand, and every stroke becomes a smooth bezier path with just a few points. You still get real vectors that scale to any size, without building them by hand.

• Brush with three looks (smooth, tapered, blobby), a stabilizer for steady lines, and pen pressure on tablets.
• Shapes from rough strokes: hold still at the end of a stroke and it snaps to a straight line, an ellipse or a rectangle.
• Fill bucketthat follows your lines exactly, closes small gaps so color doesn't leak, and leaves holes like eyes empty. Fills always sit under the lines.
• Blob brush for painting filled shapes, a vector eraser that really removes what you erase, and a trim tool for overshoots.
• Sculpt tools to push, smooth and simplify a path like clay, and point editing when you want exact control.
• Layers with live effects: outlines, thickness, drop shadows and inner shading, all following one light direction.

Clean SVG you can use anywhere

The export is written to be small and readable: compact path data, fills below lines, groups kept together, and nothing that isn't part of the artwork. Tracing images and fill guides are left out. You can:

• download an SVG or a PNG (at 1×, 2× or 4×), of the whole page or just the artwork,
• export only what you have selected, with or without a background,
• copy the SVG code or the image straight to the clipboard.

Scribl also opens SVG files and pasted SVG code, turning them into paths you can keep editing.

Free, private and offline

There is no sign-up, no watermark and nothing to install. Your drawings are saved automatically in your browser on your own device, with their undo history, and listed in a gallery. Scribl keeps working without an internet connection, and you can install it as an app on a computer, tablet or phone. Back up all your drawings as a single zip file whenever you like.

Who it's for

Scribl is built for hand-drawn illustration: bold outlined characters, stickers, icons and flat-color backgrounds. If you need print layouts, typography or precise technical drawings, a full design tool will suit you better (see how Scribl compares). If you just want to draw and get a good SVG out, this is the quickest way there.

New to vector drawing? Read how to draw vector art, or check the FAQ.

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