CanvasPlanet is a single shared canvas painted on a world map. It is free, and there is nothing to buy.
Anyone can paint over anything. You do not own the pixels or the coordinates you paint.
Do not paint, type, or upload anything illegal, hateful, sexual involving minors, or that exposes someone's personal information.
Do not use scripts or bots. Painting is meant to cost you time.
We can remove pixels, mute, ban, or disable accounts to keep the canvas usable.
You can delete your account at any time from the Account panel.
This box is a summary for convenience. The numbered sections below are the actual terms.
1. What CanvasPlanet is
CanvasPlanet is a persistent, live pixel canvas layered over a map of the real world. Everyone paints on the same canvas, one pixel at a time, from a charge bank that refills over time. Nothing ever resets.
By using CanvasPlanet you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use it.
You can paint without an account. Creating one is optional, and adds a persistent display name, a place on the player leaderboard, streaks, a profile picture, and access to chat.
2. Your account
If you create an account, you agree to give an email address you actually control, and to keep your password to yourself. Anything done through your account is treated as done by you.
Your display name is public. It appears on the leaderboard, in chat, and on the pixels you paint.
You may sign in with Discord instead of a password. If you do, we receive your Discord account ID and, where Discord provides one, your email address. See the Privacy Policy.
You can delete your account at any time from the Account panel. What deletion does, and what it cannot undo, is described in section 7 of the Privacy Policy — read that first, because it is irreversible.
3. What you may not paint or post
These rules apply to everything you put on CanvasPlanet: pixels, display names, chat messages, alliance names, template names, and profile pictures.
Do not create, upload, or paint:
anything unlawful, or anything that encourages or facilitates unlawful acts;
sexual content involving minors, in any form or style, including drawn and pixel-art depictions;
content that attacks, degrades, or incites hatred or violence against people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, or sexual orientation;
threats, targeted harassment, or content intended to intimidate a specific person;
another person's private information — real names paired with addresses, phone numbers, workplaces, or anything else that identifies where somebody is;
content that impersonates a real person or organisation in a way meant to deceive;
spam, advertising unrelated to CanvasPlanet, malware, or links intended to defraud;
content that infringes somebody else's copyright or trade mark.
Separately, do not deliberately deface protected regions, and do not organise coordinated destruction of other people's work for its own sake. Painting over things is the point of the canvas; systematically wrecking it is not.
4. Your content and the licence you give us
You keep whatever rights you already had in what you make. We are not claiming ownership of your artwork.
To actually run the site we need permission to use it. By painting a pixel, sending a chat message, or uploading a profile picture, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to store, reproduce, and publicly display that content as part of CanvasPlanet. In practice this covers exactly the things the site visibly does:
rendering your pixels into the map tiles everyone loads;
including them in the history view, timelapse videos, and image exports;
serving them inside the embeddable widget on other people's websites;
showing your display name and profile picture on the leaderboard and in chat.
This licence lasts as long as the content is on CanvasPlanet, and continues afterwards only so far as is needed for backups, archived history, and timelapses already produced. It does not let us sell your artwork as a standalone work.
5. Profile pictures
Profile pictures must be a JPEG, PNG, or WebP image of 2 MB or less. We convert what you upload into a small square image and store that.
Only upload a picture you have the right to use. Profile pictures are subject to the same content rules as everything else in section 3, and moderators can remove one without removing your account.
6. The canvas is shared
You do not own the pixels you paint, or the coordinates they sit on, and anyone can paint over them at any time. Painting over someone's work is a normal, expected use of CanvasPlanet, not a violation of these terms.
Some regions are protected by moderators and cannot be painted. Protecting a region is a moderation decision, not a property right granted to any player.
We may also, at our discretion, revert areas of the canvas — for example to undo a bot attack, or to remove content that breaks section 3. Reverting takes your pixels with it.
7. Charges, and the absence of money
Painting spends charges from a bank that refills over time. Charges are not a currency, have no monetary value, cannot be bought, sold, or transferred, and are not property. The same is true of leaderboard positions and streaks.
CanvasPlanet is free. There is no paid tier, no in-app purchase, and no payment mechanism of any kind — we never ask for card details, and any site or message that does so while claiming to be CanvasPlanet is not us.
8. Automation and fair use
Painting is rate-limited on purpose. Do not use bots, scripts, macros, or automation of any kind to paint, and do not try to get around the rate limits — for example by scripting the API directly, by cycling through sessions, proxies, or VPNs to collect extra charges, or by working around the anti-bot check.
Reading is different from painting. You are welcome to read the public canvas — tiles, the status endpoint, the embed widget — at a reasonable rate.
Do not attempt to disrupt the service, probe it for vulnerabilities without permission, or reach accounts, moderation tools, or data that are not yours. If you find a security problem, please report it rather than exploiting it: see section 15.
9. Moderation and enforcement
Where something breaks these terms we may remove or revert the pixels, delete the chat message, remove the profile picture, mute the account in chat, temporarily block painting from the session, or disable the account — depending on what happened.
We aim to be proportionate, and to prefer the smallest action that fixes the problem. But we do not guarantee advance notice, an appeal, or any particular process, and for serious cases — the section 3 items that are outright unlawful — we will act immediately and permanently.
Anyone can report an area of the canvas or a chat message. Reports are reviewed by moderators; submitting one does not guarantee any particular outcome.
10. Embeds, exports, and the API
You may embed the CanvasPlanet widget on your own site using the embed tool, and you may share timelapses and image exports you generate, including publicly. Please keep it recognisable as CanvasPlanet and link back to the site.
The HTTP endpoints under /api exist to serve the site. They are not a published, versioned public API, and we may change or remove any of them at any time without notice. If you build something on top of them, expect it to break.
11. Availability
CanvasPlanet is provided as-is and as-available. We do not promise any level of uptime, and we may change features, freeze the canvas, take the service down for maintenance, or discontinue it entirely.
Current service state is published on the status page, reachable from Settings.
12. Disclaimers and liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, CanvasPlanet is provided without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
We do not pre-screen what people paint or post. Content on the canvas and in chat is created by other users, and we are not responsible for it. The map data underneath the canvas is supplied by third parties and may be inaccurate; nothing on CanvasPlanet is a statement about real-world borders, territory, or sovereignty.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages, or for any loss of data, artwork, progress, charges, streaks, or leaderboard standing.
Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, and if you have consumer rights under the law of your own country, these terms do not take them away.
13. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. When we do, we change the "last updated" date at the top of this page. Continuing to use CanvasPlanet after a change means you accept the updated terms.
For a change that materially reduces your rights, we will make a reasonable effort to say so in the app rather than relying on you noticing the date.
14. Governing law
Not yet settled. CanvasPlanet does not currently name a governing law or a venue for disputes, because the operator has not yet established the legal entity that would determine them.
Until this section is completed, nothing here is intended to displace the law that would otherwise apply to you, or to require you to bring a dispute anywhere other than where you would normally be entitled to.
15. Contact
Questions about these terms, content reports that need a human, and security disclosures: [email protected].
For everything else there is the Discord server linked from the app.
CanvasPlanet