Jamboard, a collaborative app meant mostly for meetings, lets people draw in one or more rectangle-shaped frames. Google Keep not only lets you draw a note, but also recognizes handwritten words in your drawn notes when you search in Keep. Google Drawings works best to create diagrams, process maps, and other shape or frame-style layouts.Ĭhrome Canvas supports freehand sketching in four styles (pencil, pen, marker, and chalk) and lets you draw on up to 10 different layers. Google Drawings, Chrome Canvas, Jamboard, Google Keep, and Autodraw offer distinct drawing capabilities. (The two apps at the bottom of the list are both full-featured vector graphic design apps.) 1. The other browser-based apps below are listed roughly in order of ease of use, power, and price. Google makes at least five drawing apps, although no single Google drawing app includes a full set of drawing tools. Google and several developers offer drawing apps that work in a browser. SEE: Multicloud: A cheat sheet (free PDF) (TechRepublic)

These apps let you sketch a process, capture a concept, or illustrate your thinking - all within a desktop web browser. All of the apps below let you use a mouse or touchpad to draw in Chrome on a computer if your system has a touchscreen, these apps accept marks made with a finger or stylus as well. That’s appropriate, since people have used those tools to draw for years.īut the Chrome browser also can serve as an effective drawing tool when used with a well-chosen web app.

When people mention drawing tools, they typically mean things like pencils, pens, markers, chalk, or more recently, tablets and styluses. Top TechRepublic Academy training courses and software offerings of 2022īest project management software and tools 2022 Gartner identifies 25 emerging technologies in its 2022 hype cycle Illustration: Andy Wolber / TechRepublic What's hot at TechRepublic If you want to draw in the Chrome browser on your Windows, macOS, or Chrome desktop or laptop, these apps are worth a try. How to use apps to draw on a computer with Chrome

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