WigglyPaint

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WigglyPaint is a small, joyful drawing program that makes every line you draw wobble and boil like a hand-drawn cartoon. You pick a pen, doodle, crop the result and save it as an animated GIF. It is for anyone who likes to sketch for fun: kids, illustrators warming up, people making reaction GIFs and stickers for friends, and fans of old-school paint programs. It runs in your browser in seconds and needs no account. It is made by Internet Janitor, the itch.io name of developer John Earnest, and it is built with Decker, his HyperCard-inspired creative environment. The app wears its influences proudly, with clear nods to Shake Art and KidPix, plus a chunky black-and-white interface full of personality. It became a surprise hit, rated 4.9 out of 5 from more than 2,300 ratings and with thousands of comments full of shared drawings, and it has been updated steadily since its first release in December 2023 (version 1.6 arrived in April 2026). The creator explicitly states that no generative AI was used, and warns that the official versions exist only on itch.io, his personal website and Newgrounds: copies sold in app stores or wrapped in ads are knockoffs. Highlights: • Animated, wiggling line art that makes every doodle feel alive • A set of pens, markers and colors designed for expressive sketching • Crop tool to frame your drawing before export • Save your drawing as an animated GIF • Save the whole app as a standalone HTML file to use offline forever • Runs locally in Decker for better performance • Works with mouse or touchscreen WigglyPaint is free to use. Its code is released under the MIT license and its assets under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). It runs in any modern web browser on desktop and mobile, as an offline HTML file, or inside Decker on Windows, macOS and Linux.

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