Support
New to Doodly Doodle? Start with the guides: every part of the app, with a narrated walkthrough. For what’s included, see Free and Plus.
An idea for the app? Post it on the feedback board, or use Give feedback at the corner of any page, and vote for the ideas you want most.
Something not working? Write to [email protected]. Please include your device model and its system version, and describe what you did and what you expected to happen.
Which iPad do I need?
Doodly Doodle needs iPadOS 26 or later (iOS 26 on iPhone, macOS 26 on a Mac). Two reasons, and both are about the painting rather than about keeping up with releases.
The first is the pens. iPadOS draws the ink under your Apple Pencil, and each of its nibs — pen, pencil, marker, monoline, fountain pen, watercolor, crayon and the reed pen — is a different mark, made by the people who made the Pencil. The reed pen and the ability to hold a broad nib at an angle both arrived in iPadOS 26, and a calligraphy brush without them is a worse brush. Asking for an older iPadOS would mean shipping brushes that quietly turn into other brushes on some iPads, so the same painting would look different depending on where you opened it.
The second is memory. A painting keeps every layer ready to paint on: at full size a layer of ink holds about 81 MB, marker 48, watercolor 33, and pencil, pastel or charcoal about 24. An iPad with 3 GB of memory has room for nine layers of ink, or thirty-two of pencil, and the Layers sheet shows how full a painting is. If a painting ever does hold as much as your iPad can, the app says so and asks you to flatten or delete a layer — it does not wait until it has to close.
Everything else scales the same way and without asking you: on a smaller iPad the app keeps less of the painting ready in the background, and animated paintings play back by drawing each frame instead of from a cache. You may notice it working a little harder. You should not see it stop.
Where are my paintings?
Every painting saves automatically while you draw. Tap the Gallery button (the grid at the top left) to see them all; touch and hold a painting to rename, duplicate or delete it. Each painting also keeps a self-contained .doodly copy in the Files app, in iCloud Drive › Doodly Doodle (or On My iPad › Doodly Doodle, if you turn off Keep copies in iCloud Drive in Settings › Storage). Copy one to another iPad to move a painting. See Your paintings and Files.
Keeping a copy
To save a portable copy somewhere else, open the Actions menu (…) and choose Save project as…. Opening that file later with Open project… adds it to your gallery as a separate painting if the original is still there, so it never replaces your current work.
Exporting
Share › Export… makes a still image (WebP, PNG, HEIF, AVIF, TIFF), a video (H.264, HEVC), a GIF, a time-lapse, a soundtrack, a layered PSD, or numbered frames. Exports are saved in Files › Doodly Doodle › Exports. See Share and export. Animated exports default to the painting's motion loop so they repeat without a jump. Large exports can take a while; you can cancel at any time.
Purchases
Purchases belong to your Apple Account. On a new device, open Actions › Free and Plus and tap Restore purchases. Refunds are handled by Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com.
Privacy
The app collects no personal data. Read the privacy policy.