For illustrators, designers and writers who get asked “is this AI?”
DrawDog: Answer
“Did you use AI?”
with one link.
DrawDog makes a receipt of how you made your work, one link your client can check, and it never opens your files.
Free: 3 certificates a month, no card. DrawDog never opens your files. See a sample certificate
Procreate on iPad? Seal the file in Safari, nothing to install.
- Time drawing
- 3h 41m
- Strokes
- 6,218
- AI tools
- 0%
- File matches
- Yes
Checked on your device, not by DrawDog.
You drew it. Now you have to prove it.
A client asks if it’s AI. A checker flags a piece you spent nine hours on. A publisher’s contract wants you to promise no AI was used. Timelapses and WIPs used to settle it, and now you’re writing a defense instead of drawing. DrawDog keeps the record while you work, so the answer is one link.
The sixty-second version
How it works
- Start a session.
Point DrawDog at the folder you’re working in. That’s the whole setup.
- Work like normal.
Procreate, Photoshop, Figma, whatever you already use. DrawDog notes how your file grows and which apps you’re in. It never looks inside your work.
- Send the link.
Your client opens it in their browser. No account, no sign-up, nothing to install. They can also drop the file you sent onto the page to confirm it’s the one.
What your client sees
One page. Three answers.
How long you worked. A curve showing your file grow from a rough start to the finished piece. And one line near the top: 0% AI tools, or the honest percentage if you used them.
Then they drag the file you sent onto the page, and it confirms it’s byte-for-byte the file the record describes.
Three grades
No purity test.
Everyone uses AI a bit now, and a tool that pretends otherwise gets caught out. So DrawDog discloses instead of accusing.
No AI tools were open, and the record shows the work growing over time.
You used AI. It says so, and says how much.
The session was recorded, but not enough to certify how it was made. No AI isn’t automatically certified.
Privacy
It never looks inside your work.
Quit the app and even we can’t tell you what your files were called. Nothing leaves your computer until you press Certify, and then only a summary does.
Recorded
- +A fingerprint of each file, refreshed when it changes
- +How big each file is, and when it was last saved
- +Which app is in front, as a running total per app
- +How often the pen or mouse moves in your drawing app, never where
- +When you started and stopped
Never recorded
- ×What’s in your files
- ×File names or folder paths
- ×Anything you type
- ×Your screen, window titles, or browser tabs
Writing
Works for text too.
A manuscript typed by a person grows through saves and autosaves in small steps over hours. A pasted chapter arrives all at once. DrawDog tracks how the document grows in Word, Pages, Scrivener, Ulysses, or Obsidian and certifies the difference, for a short story, a thesis, or a whole book headed to Kindle Direct Publishing.
It never reads your keyboard. Not one keystroke, and it never asks for the permission that would allow it. How writing is graded →
Limits
Not a lie detector.
It can’t catch someone who generates a picture elsewhere and reproduces it by hand. Nothing can. What it does is make faking the work cost more than doing the work.
Questions
What is DrawDog?
- What is DrawDog?
- A Mac and Windows app that sits in your menu bar or system tray while you draw or write. When you finish, it gives you a signed certificate: one link a client or publisher can open in their browser to see how the piece came together.
- Does DrawDog read my files?
- No. It never opens your files, and it never records file contents, file names, keystrokes or your screen. The privacy page lists exactly what it records.
- Is DrawDog an AI detector?
- No. It records how your own work was made. It can’t catch someone who copies a generated image by hand, and it doesn’t claim to. How it works.
- How much does it cost?
- Three certificates a month are free, no card. Pro is $19 a month and Studio is $39 a month. Checking a certificate is always free. See pricing.
- Which apps does it work with?
- Drawing and writing apps on Mac and Windows. The full list is in the FAQ.
Three certificates a month, free.
No card. The certificate looks the same on every plan, and it stays valid even if you never pay us a cent.
Get DrawDog freeNot on your laptop?
We will email you the download link, so you can open it at your desk.