Platform status & compatibility
This page is the canonical answer to "can I actually get Draftly on X, and what does it do?". Every other page on this site defers to it. If a claim elsewhere disagrees with this table, this table is right and the other page is a bug — tell us at [email protected].
Last verified by the maintainer on 29 October 2026.
What you can install today
| Build | Status | How to get it | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web app | Published | draftlycad.com/app | The complete product. Installable as a PWA; keeps working after first load. |
| Windows desktop | In development | Not offered here | No installer or package-manager listing is published. The installer needs a code-signing certificate, which is not provisioned yet. |
| macOS desktop | Published | Latest release on GitHub | A .dmg signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple. macOS 12 or later. Desktop 1.0.7 was published on 29 October 2026. |
| Linux desktop | Published | Latest release on GitHub | A .tar.gz for x64 and a .deb for Debian and Ubuntu. Unsigned; check them against SHA256SUMS.txt in the same release. |
| iOS / iPadOS app | Published | App Store | Draftly CAD for iPhone and iPad went live on the App Store on 23 September 2026; the current version, 1.0.6, was released on 26 October 2026. Requires iOS 15.0 or later. Purchases made in the app are processed by Apple. |
| Android app | In development | Use the web app in Chrome | Not published on Google Play. No purchase can be made through Google Play today. |
"In development" means exactly that: work is underway and there is no published artifact you can install. We do not announce dates for these builds, because a date we miss is another claim that stopped being true. The changelog records each one the day it ships.
Hosted services
| Service | Needed for | Works offline? |
|---|---|---|
| Local drafting, save, recover, export | Everything on the free tier | Yes — no account, no network |
| Accounts & sign-in | Trial, Pro, cloud sync, account management | No |
| Pro entitlement check | Unlocking Pro features | Re-checked at app start; a signed licence keeps Pro offline up to 14 days (90 on lifetime), then Free until the next check |
| Cloud sync & version history | Drawings following you between devices | No |
| Checkout | Buying Pro (processed by Stripe) | No |
We do not publish an uptime percentage, because we have not been measuring one long enough for the number to mean anything. When we do, it will appear here with the measurement window attached. If the app or sync is down for you, email [email protected].
Compatibility
Supported
- [x] Current Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox, desktop and mobile
- [x]
.drft— Draftly's own format, readable JSON - [x] DXF import and export (Pro)
- [x] PDF export, plotted to scale at 1:1, 1:50 and 1:100, or fit-to-page
- [x] SVG export
- [x] Nine object-snap families: endpoint, midpoint, center, intersection, perpendicular, nearest, quadrant, tangent, node
Not supported
- [ ] DWG read or write, in either direction. Convert to DXF first with the free ODA File Converter.
- [ ] Paperspace / layouts
- [ ] Parametric constraints
- [ ] Blocks & attributes
- [ ] MTEXT & hatch
- [ ] 3D, rendering, BIM
Some commands are present in the command bar's catalogue but answer "coming in v1.1" rather than running — STYLE, HATCH, BLOCK, INSERT and REGION. They are listed so their aliases do not collide with commands that do run.
- LAYER now opens the layer manager, which is also reachable from the toolbar.
- PLINE now draws a connected run of segments as one object, on the K key or from the command bar.
- DIST and ID now measure and report from the command bar; the points are typed at the prompt rather than picked on canvas.
- UNITS now opens the length format, plot scale and precision the status-bar units chip writes; it changes no geometry. It is marked partial: it sets the length format, plot scale and precision, and the angle format, angle precision and base direction AutoCAD sets from the same dialog are not built.
- EXPLODE now breaks the selected rectangles, polygons and polylines into lines and arcs, on the X key or from the command bar.
- PEDIT now closes, opens, reverses and joins polylines from the command bar; Fit, Spline, Decurve, Width, Ltype gen and per-vertex editing are not built, so it is marked partial.
- LINETYPE now gives the selected objects their own dashed, dotted or dash-dot linetype, or hands them back to their layer; loading patterns from a .lin file, setting the linetype new objects are drawn with and LTSCALE are not built, so it is marked partial.
- MATCHPROP now copies the layer, colour and linetype of the first object you selected onto the rest; it matches three of the eleven properties AutoCAD does — there is no per-object lineweight, linetype scale, transparency or plot style to copy — and the source is taken from the selection rather than picked and then painted object by object, so it is marked partial.