Press Kit

Download the press kit (26 MB)

The zip contains 16 screenshots across iPhone, iPad and Android, five silent 16-second screen recordings of the real app, the icon at 1024 and 512, a banner, and the fact sheet below as plain text. If you need something that is not in there, or a build to try, email kyle@hankinsoft.com and you will get a same-day answer.

The basics

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Draw and guess with friends. Every sketch replays stroke by stroke.

Short description

HankyDoodle is a turn-based drawing and guessing game for iPhone, iPad and Android. You sketch a word and send it on; your opponent watches it being drawn, stroke by stroke, exactly as you drew it, and races to guess before the last line lands. Every brush and colour is free.

Full description

HankyDoodle is a drawing and guessing game played one turn at a time. You get a word, you sketch it, and you send it to a friend. What they see is not just the finished picture. They watch it being drawn, stroke by stroke, exactly the way you drew it, and they try to name the word before the last line lands. Guessing early scores more, so there is a real reason to recognize a wobbly cat two seconds sooner.

Nothing is locked away. Every brush, every color and every tool is there the first time you open the app and it stays there. There are no coins to collect and no energy meter that runs out.

When nobody is around to play, there is a Word of the Day. Every player in the world gets the same prompt for twenty-four hours, and once you have taken your turn you can see how everyone else read the same word. Some of them will have drawn something you would never have thought of.

There is also a free draw mode for when you just want to make something without a prompt, and a community gallery where any drawing can be replayed the way it was made. You can play head to head with a friend, or let the game match you with another player.

What makes it different

The replay is the game. Most draw-and-guess games show the finished picture, or a live canvas you have to be present for. HankyDoodle records the drawing, so your opponent watches it appear at their own convenience, hours later if they like, and the guess happens while the picture is still forming. Every drawing in the app can be replayed this way, including other people's.

Nothing creative is sold back to you. The genre is full of games that charge for colours, bombs, hints or extra letters. HankyDoodle has an optional subscription, but it does not gate a single drawing tool, colour, brush size or prompt. What a paying player can draw and what a brand-new player can draw are identical.

It was built for a family, then opened up. The rating is 4+, drawings are reportable and blockable, and reported content is triaged daily by a human.

Origin

Kyle used to play Draw Something back in the day and wanted something he and his family could play together. Every option had the basics locked behind a currency. Colours cost coins or energy. That was the whole point for HankyDoodle. Use the part that works, the drawing replaying for someone who has to guess it, and delete the economy around it. The app was built with his wife and kids as the first and most demanding testers. There is more of that story on the about page.

Screenshots

Full-resolution versions of these, plus iPad and Android, are in the zip.

What is in the zip

The video clips are silent screen recordings of the real app: a drawing being made stroke by stroke on each platform, and the guessing side. They are safe to cut, speed up or loop.