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!
Donate to Drawpile
SEPA Bank Transfer (Europe)
If you have a bank account within the European Economic Area, you can donate via a regular bank transfer just by sending the money to our donation account. No payment processors get involved and usually there's no fees.
PayPal
You can make one-time, monthly or yearly donations through PayPal. Fees are at PayPal's charity rate.
For other currencies, please donate in Euros. PayPal will convert them automatically.
Direct
You can make a one-time direct donation via credit/debit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, Bancontact, BLIK, EPS or SEPA direct debit. The payment will be processed by Stripe, fees depend on the payment method.
For other currencies, please donate in Euros. Stripe will convert them automatically.
Liberapay
You can make weekly, monthly or yearly donations via Liberapay in many different currencies via credit/debit card or SEPA direct debit. These are also a direct donations using Stripe as a payment processor. Liberapay doesn't take a cut, they just facilitate the repeated payments.
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.
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.
No Nag Mail
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.
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 as well. Then we'll try to turn that off as well.
Other Payment Methods?
We may be able to turn on other payment methods in Stripe. Ask about it!
We don't want cryptocurrency donations.
What about Patreon, GitHub Sponsors and such?
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.
Tax Notes for Germany
Donations to Drawpile are considered to benefit the public, supporting art and culture. You can hand in proof of your donation on your income tax statement in Germany.
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 donate more than 300 Euros in one go, you need a full donation confirmation instead where we need additional information to fill out the form with. If you think you need one of these confirmations, please get in contact.