About Pausio

Pausio is a free, calming place to paint in your browser. Choose a picture, pick your colours and paint it stroke by stroke. “Stay inside the lines” keeps each stroke inside the part of the picture it started in, so the result holds together even if you have never painted before.

This is painting, not colouring by numbers

There are no numbers to fill in and no fill bucket. You paint every stroke yourself, with watercolour, oil, gouache, coloured pencil and texture brushes, and the picture gives just enough structure to feel good about the result. Oil only closes the tiny specks of paper right beside your stroke that a brush can't reach.

Privacy, in plain words

• There is no account and no sign-up.
• Your paintings are saved only in this browser, on this device. Nothing you paint is sent to us or anyone else.
• Downloading, printing or sharing a picture only happens when you press the button.
• Clearing your browser's data removes saved paintings. To keep an extra copy, open a painting and choose My paintings → Export backup.
• There are no ads, and nothing tracks what you paint.
• We count visits to the homepage, the gallery and pages like this one with Cloudflare Web Analytics. It uses no cookies and doesn't identify you. The pages where you paint are never counted.

For parents and teachers

Pausio is suitable for children from about 10 years old. Every picture is calm and family-friendly, there is nothing to buy, no chat, no public sharing and no personal information to enter. Controls use plain words, and the Beginner pictures have big, clear shapes.

Free, no strings

No streaks, no timers and no scores. Open a picture, paint for a while, and keep what you make. Choose a picture to start.