No installer, no administrator password, no app store and nothing added to the machine. It opens the way any website opens — and then your webcam watches your hand and a pinch of thumb and index finger draws. Six brushes, an infinite canvas and full-resolution export, on a machine you are not allowed to install anything on.
No install · no admin rights · no account
Plenty of pages say "no download" and mean "the download is small", and a few mean "nothing whatsoever crosses the network", which is not true of any website including this one. This one means there is no install — and the honest way to prove that is to be precise about both halves, including the half that is not zero.
The distinction that matters on a locked-down machine is not how many megabytes cross the network. It is whether anything has to be installed, because that is the step somebody else controls. Nothing here does.
It is worth being clear why so many pages blur this. "No download" tests better than "small download", so it gets used for both — and the reader who actually needs the distinction, the one on a machine they do not own, is precisely the reader that blurring fails. If your problem is a permission dialog, a smaller installer does not help you at all. Either something has to be installed or it does not, and that is a yes-or-no question.
Most software decides who gets to use it long before anyone judges whether it is good. The filter is not price or quality — it is whether you happen to control the machine in front of you, and an enormous number of people simply do not.
This is the case the page exists for, and it is a much larger group than it sounds — every student on a school device, every contractor on a client laptop, every person using a shared machine in a library.
The blocker in all of those situations is identical. On a managed machine the blocker is almost never the software itself — it is the permission dialog in front of it, and that dialog belongs to somebody in another building.
The shape of the problem is always the same. Somebody wants to try a tool, finds it, downloads it, and meets a box asking for credentials they were never given. On a school laptop that is the end of it. On a work desktop it means a ticket, an approval queue and a week — by which time the reason for wanting the tool has usually passed.
A browser tab does not open that dialog. There is no installer to approve, no store account to sign into, and no policy that has to be changed for a website to load. Chromebooks are the clearest case: a browser and a camera is the entire requirement, so the thing that usually blocks software on a managed Chromebook simply does not apply here.
There is nothing to elevate. The permission ladder that stops most installs has no rung to climb here.
The camera, asked once by the browser itself — the same dialog any video-call site uses, and refusable in the same way. The feed is read inside the page to find your hand and is never uploaded.
No application, no package, no data directory and no background process — so there is nothing to uninstall afterwards. What remains is ordinary browser cache and a little localStorage, which clearing your browsing data removes.
The usual trade for "runs in the browser, nothing to install" is a cut-down version with the real thing behind a download — a taster, with the actual product one click and one admin password away. There is no download here for a real version to be behind, so what follows is not a subset of anything.
Marker, Neon, Velocity, Rainbow, Mono and Sparks — Velocity maps hand speed to stroke width.
Eight colours each, with an HSV wheel behind them for anything else.
Hold the pinch still and a rough stroke snaps clean. Grab a finished line and bend it.
Pan and zoom by gesture. No canvas size to pick at the start.
Lossless stills, straight to your downloads folder.
MP4 or WebM, with a timelapse export at 2×, 3× or 5×.
If you end up using it often you can optionally add it to your home screen or dock so it opens in its own window with its own icon. That is a browser feature and still nothing installs — there is a walkthrough for every device if you want it.
Three honest limits, because a proof page that only proves the convenient half is not proof. It does not work offline — it is a website, and opening it needs a connection. It keeps nothing: no cloud, no project file, so a drawing lives in the tab until you export it. And it needs a working camera and enough light, which on some managed machines is itself the thing that has been disabled.
That last one is the only case where this genuinely will not help, and it is worth ten seconds to check before you plan around it: if video calls work on the machine, this will too, because it asks for the camera the same way and through the same browser dialog.
Still stuck? Open the canvas and try it — the thing answers faster than reading about it does.
Try it FreeNo. There is no installer to approve, so there is no admin prompt to get past. It opens the way any website opens — which is the entire reason this page exists.
Yes. A Chromebook has a browser and a camera, and that is the whole requirement — there is nothing to install, so the thing that usually blocks software on a managed Chromebook does not apply.
None of its own. Nothing installs — no application, no package, no data directory. Your browser caches the page the way it caches any site you visit, and clearing your browsing data clears it.
No. It is a website, so opening it needs a connection. Once it is open, the hand tracking and the drawing run entirely on your device.
Free, and there is no account system at all — no email, no password, no sign-up step. Exports carry a small getairva.com corner mark, on images and video alike.
It asks for one permission: the camera. The video is read inside the browser tab to find your hand and never leaves the device — not uploaded, not recorded, not sent to a server. Nothing is installed and no account exists, so what remains afterwards is ordinary browser cache and nothing else.
The step that stops most software on a managed machine simply does not occur here — there is no installer for anyone to say no to.