Donations help keep development going and the servers running. If you run into problems donating or have any questions, suggestions or anything else, take a look at the contact page on how to get in touch!
Pick whether you want to make regular or one-time donations and pick one of the donation options below, or scroll down further to see where the money goes.
If you're in the European Economic Area, you can simply send money or set up a standing order to make regular contributions to our donation account. If you're in the European Economic Area, you can set up a standing order to make regular contributions to our donation account. If you're in the European Economic Area, you can simply send money to our donation account.
PayPal lets you choose between one-time, monthly or yearly donations. For other currencies, please donate in Euros, they will be converted automatically.
One-time donations. Via credit/debit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, Bancontact, BLIK, EPS, iDEAL or SEPA direct debit. For other currencies, please donate in Euros, they will be converted automatically.
LiberapayMany different currencies via credit/debit card or SEPA direct debit.
Your donations go to the non-profit organization "Drawpile gemeinnützige Unternehmergesellschaft (haftungsbeschränkt)". The very long, German name means that it's an organization "for the public good". It is bound by law to use your donations for their proper cause: developing Drawpile and operating its servers, keeping it as a public good without paywalls, without ads, without training some infernal AI on your work and without investors or shareholders profiteering.
The money is used to pay for hosting costs of the public servers, website and account system. It also helps to let me, the developer, spend more time working on Drawpile than would be possible just in my free time. And yes, it's all just developed by one person!
And if you somehow ended up here without knowing what Drawpile is: it's a collaborative drawing program that lets multiple people draw, sketch, paint and animate on the same canvas together. It's public software, free and open source, built to be efficient to run even on older devices and to operate the servers for it at a low cost. You can download it or use it in your web browser on drawpile.net.
If you donate through Stripe or PayPal, you will get payment confirmations from them – and that's it. You won't get unnecessary e-mail or other communications from us after donating because we think that's annoying. No soulless, automated thank-yous. No begging for more money. No marketing nonsense.
We also don't ask you for your address, since we obviously don't want to send you any physical mail either. If Stripe or PayPal ask you for an address, it's probably for their own verification purposes, we don't request or use it for anything.
If you do want some kind of extra confirmation or real, hand-written thanks after donating, get in contact!
And if you somehow get additional e-mails because Stripe or PayPal thought of something new, please let us know. Then we'll try to turn that off as well.
We may be able to turn on other payment methods or add other currencies relatively easily. Ask about it!
We don't want cryptocurrency donations.
Those kinds of platforms don't qualify as donations unfortunately, since your payments go to them instead of directly to us. Since they're not a charity or non-profit organization, it counts as a subscription purchase.
In Germany donations to Drawpile are considered to support art and culture, which counts as a benefit to the public. If you pay income tax in Germany, you can hand in proof of your donation with your tax statement.
For single donations of 300 Euros or less, you just need some kind of payment confirmation (like a bank statement) and this simplified donation confirmation (in German).
If you want to give more than 300 Euros in a single donation, the tax office wants a full donation confirmation as proof. To fill that out, we need your name and address. If you think you need one of these confirmations, please get in contact.