A daily drawing game · iPhone and Android
One word. Three tries. Can the AI tell what you drew?
You draw the word. A vision model on the other side of the paper tries to work out what you made. First try is Gold. Stump it completely and you keep the Mystery card.
Free to try. $0.99 unlocks it for good. No ads, no sign-in, no feed.
0:00 · the other side of the paper is asleep
Three tries
It gets things wrong. Sometimes very wrong.
I used a small, cheap model because each day had to cost basically nothing. It turned out that was also more fun. Arguing with the machine is half the game.
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Try 1tiger✕ -
Try 2dog✕ -
Try 3cheetah✓
Speed lines. That's what it took. The verdict comes back in about two seconds, and the card remembers the tiger and the dog anyway.
The cards
Five ways a day can end.
If the AI gets your drawing, it becomes a card in your sketchbook. How fast decides the metal. Turn one over and it shows you everything the machine thought it was looking at.
- Gold
- Recognised on the first try.
- Silver
- Second try. The card notes what it saw first.
- Diamond
- First try and shiny. About one in five correct sketches come back shiny for being more interesting than they needed to be. A shiny first try is the one I still chase.
- Bronze
- Third try. Still counts. Still a card.
- Mystery
- Three tries and it never got it. The consolation card, and often the better story.
Every card keeps what the AI thought it was seeing along the way.
This one was DEATH RAY. Three tries. The machine went with skeleton being zapped, then skeleton shooting a ray gun, then person being zapped. It never said death ray. I'd argue it was close. The card doesn't care.
Bloopers
When it's wrong, share that instead.
Every miss becomes a blooper card, stamped. They travel better than the wins. Nobody sends a friend a perfectly recognised medal. They send the medal the machine swore was a coin.
- MEDALAI saw: coin. Which, fine.
- ROVERAI saw: toy car. On Mars. With a solar panel.
- CARAI saw: zigzag line, signature, text. In fairness, look at it.
- TIME BOMBAI saw: explosion, digital clock. Both halves. Never the whole.
Your sketchbook
It keeps every one.
Every day you draw goes on the shelf with its metal. Search them. Filter by tier. Watch a month of two-minute drawings turn into something you'd actually show someone.
Diamond Gold Silver Bronze Mystery ✦ shiny Sixteen of these are real. All of them, actually.
Why I made it
The AI is on the other side of the paper.
I hadn't really doodled since Draw Something.
I've been throwing myself at app development, but I still wanted to scratch that particular itch, and I kept thinking about what AI could do for creativity if it wasn't the thing making the picture.
So I put it on the other side of the paper. izzit gives you one word a day. You draw it, and a vision model tries to figure out what you made. You get three tries.
I originally used a small, cheap model because I needed the cost of each day to be basically nothing. It turned out that was also more fun. It gets things wrong. Sometimes very wrong. Arguing with the machine is half the game.
There are packs for fantasy, sci-fi and supers if the standard words aren't your jam, but the thing I'm actually trying to make is very small: one excuse to draw something every day, for maybe two minutes.
— kaolin
I'd like to know whether the AI being wrong feels funny or frustrating, and whether the cards make you want to come back tomorrow.
Word packs
If the standard words aren't your jam.
The everyday list is beavers, medals, umbrellas, phones. Three optional packs swap in a whole genre, and the cards say where they came from. Each pack is $0.99, once, on top of the unlock. None of them are required.
Fantasy
izzit fantasyNine-tailed fox was a Fantasy day. Gold, first try, one minute eight seconds. The tails did the work.
Sci-fi
izzit sci-fiRover and Death Ray were both Sci-fi days. The machine called the rover a toy car, then got it. It never got the death ray.
Supers
izzit supersTime Bomb was a Supers day. Explosion, then digital clock, then Bronze. Both halves before the whole.
What it costs
Free to try. Then a dollar, once.
To download and try
Both stores. One graded submit on your first day, so you can see what the machine thinks of you before you decide.
Unlocks submitting, forever
Not a subscription. Not a trial that turns into one. You pay for the game once and the daily word keeps coming.
Three optional word packs
Fantasy, sci-fi and supers, each its own list of words and its own cards. Buy one, all three or none. The daily word keeps coming either way. See the packs.
No accounts. No feed. No noise.
Your drawing goes to Google's Gemini API for the guess. Google doesn't store it and it isn't used to train models. On iPhone, the sketchbook syncs privately through your own iCloud. The whole policy.
On the phone
Two minutes, start to card.
