Doodle Taguser manual

Doodle Tag is a drawing app built around living lines. A stroke is not flattened into paint on a bitmap. It keeps its shape, color, size, order, and owner, which is why Doodle Tag can later cut it with the Eraser, bend it with Wind, replay it from a recording, share it through Together, and undo the operation as a drawing action.

The app is meant to feel playful, but the rules underneath are simple: draw what you want, shape the line objects, and use the menus when you need more precision.

The Canvas

• Draw with one finger or Pencil.
• Use two fingers to pan, zoom, and rotate the paper.
• Tap Reset to frame the whole paper again.
• Hold Reset to cycle the fixed zoom stops x2, x3, and RESET.
• Drawing outside the paper is ignored.
• Undo is personal: tap Undo for your latest action, hold it to redo.
• Restored solo canvases and restored Together canvases start with clean undo/redo history.

Main Controls

Most buttons have a quick tap action and, when useful, a hold action.

Drawing Tools

Pencil and Colors

Colors opens fast swatches, a color wheel, brightness controls, and recent colors. White and black stay pinned so they are easy to return to.

Pencil setup controls drawing size and drawing style. Plain is normal drawing. Outline draws a filled stroke with a border; the selected size is the outside size, so Plain and Outline at the same size occupy the same footprint.

Each tool context remembers its own size. A thin Plain pencil, a wide Eraser, a bold Rainbow, and a broad Wind radius do not overwrite each other when you switch tools.

Rainbow

Rainbow lays color along the distance of the stroke, not by time. Drawing the same path slowly or quickly keeps the same ordered color stream along that path.

Rainbow styles:

• Normal: a continuous changing color stream.
• Pop: stronger color changes along the stroke.
• Lanes: parallel color lanes.
• 3D Lanes: a lane mode where each color keeps a fixed offset from the centerline.

Hold Rainbow, or tap Colors while Rainbow is active, to edit the six rainbow palette slots and style controls.

Eraser

The Eraser cuts stored line geometry. It does not paint with the paper color.

A drag becomes a chain of cuts. On long lines, the cut usually leaves smaller surviving pieces on either side. On short fragments, the whole fragment may disappear. Multi-lane rainbow strokes are cut as one coordinated bundle so their lanes stay together.

Eraser edits are undoable because Doodle Tag records the affected lines, the replacement fragments, and the scene order needed to put everything back.

Wind

Wind is the playful shaping tool. It works on solo drawings and is disabled while drawing together.

The Wind settings choose a radius and one of three modes:

• Wind: bends and pushes nearby line geometry.
• Vortex: removes nearby pieces more aggressively.
• Color: blends nearby stroke colors toward the local mix.

Tap or drag on the canvas to apply the current Wind mode. Repeated hits in the same area can also remove nearby pieces. Solo Wind actions are undoable.

Snap and Grids

Snap constrains drawing direction. With no grid, it snaps to straight orthogonal directions. With Grid, it follows the square or inclined grid. With Hex grid, it follows hex-edge directions.

Grid and Hex grid are mutually exclusive. Eraser can work while a grid remains visible. Wind turns grids and Snap out of the active tool set when needed.

Together

Together is Doodle Tag’s one-to-one shared drawing mode. It connects two devices on the local network and opens the canvas that belongs to that exact pair.

• Your solo canvas is parked locally when you enter Together.
• The pair canvas is separate from both solo canvases.
• Leaving Together saves the pair canvas and restores your solo canvas.
• Reconnecting the same two devices brings back that pair canvas.
• Each doodler keeps their own undo/redo flow.
• Recording and Wind are disabled while drawing together.
• PNG export remains available while together; recording sharing and video sharing are blocked from the recording rows.

The Together process may show messages such as looking for doodlers nearby, connecting, restoring the shared drawing, or returning to your own canvas. While that layer is working, other controls are locked so the connection, restore, or cleanup can finish cleanly.

Hold Clear while together to request a shared clear. The peer sees CLEAR REQUESTED while you keep holding.

Recording and Playback

Recording is solo-only.

Tap Recording to start. Doodle Tag opens Record your drawing; if you start, the recording begins on a blank canvas. Tap the red button again to stop. The recorded drawing stays on the canvas, the .dtag file is saved, and one undo takes you back to the canvas that existed before the recording started.

Saved recordings can be:

• replayed inside Doodle Tag
• shared as a .dtag file
• rendered and shared as an MP4
• opened from supported Android and iOS file flows

Playback starts from a blank canvas and is read-only while it runs. Skip jumps to the end. Cancel restores the canvas that was visible before playback. A completed playback is one undoable snapshot action.

Export and Sharing

Tap Export for Share Drawing. Hold Export for Export Drawing.

Image presets:

• Mini 1024px
• Normal 2048px
• Max 4096px

Both forms have an Include grid toggle for PNG output. Every PNG carries a small Doodle Tag watermark and is written to the app export folder; the export form also saves it to the Doodle Tag Photos album.

Video sharing uses the last saved .dtag recording:

• Mini 360p
• Normal 720p
• Max 1440p

Mini 360p MP4 sharing is available to everyone. Normal and Max video presets require supporter access. Video is rendered on the device, so speed and smoothness depend on the phone or tablet.

Resets and Defaults

Tool settings persist across launches. Holding Alert style opens the reset flow for tool-facing state: colors, sizes, Rainbow settings, Eraser settings, Wind settings, grid settings, and alert mode.

Useful defaults:

• Plain drawing starts in Doodle blue at 100 px.
• Rainbow lane contexts start wider for expressive ribbons.
• Eraser starts as a broad geometry cutter.
• Wind starts with a large radius and can be tuned from 100 px to 800 px.
• The quick palette starts with Doodle blue, Tag green, white, and black.

Holding Clear while solo clears saved session and restore data, including remembered Together pair canvases, without clearing the canvas currently on screen.

Accessibility and Feedback

Main controls expose accessibility labels and short hints. Alerts use the same banner surface for tool changes, disabled actions, recording status, and Together status. Alert style lets you choose all alerts, key alerts, or silence.

The app is still a visual drawing tool, but labels, confirmations, progress layers, and undo boundaries are designed to make the control surface understandable without memorizing hidden modes.