Is skribbl.io legit or a scam?
Established multiplayer drawing game with 9-year history, top-50k traffic rank, and zero malware detections.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
MT Intelligence
Skribbl.io is a well-known online pictionary game created by developer 'ticedev' (Mel) in January 2017. Our antivirus network flagged zero malicious detections across 92 engines, and the domain ranks in the global top-50k by traffic — a strong indicator of legitimate, sustained use. The site carries a valid SSL certificate and shows no signs of credential harvesting, phishing, or financial fraud. Independent review aggregators rate it as safe and trustworthy. Web searches turned up no scam complaints, no financial fraud reports, and active community discussions on Reddit focused on gameplay rather than security concerns. The only minor friction point is the lack of formal business registration details, but this is typical for hobby projects run by individual developers in Europe and does not indicate fraud.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for skribbl.io, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered January 2017 (approximately 9 years old); registered until far in the future
- Scamadviser rates it Very Likely Safe / legit despite hidden WHOIS owner and registrar popular with scammers
- High traffic ranking (Tranco 50); described as art/entertainment site with valid SSL
- Created by independent German developer 'ticedev' (real name Mel); contact@skribbl.io listed in ToS
- Active Reddit communities (r/skribbl, r/Skribblio) with users discussing gameplay, not scams
- No scam reports or financial complaints found across searches for 'scam', 'review', 'complaint'
- Common user-generated content risks (inappropriate drawings/chat) noted in ToS; no webcam/mic access
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for skribbl.io and found zero scam complaints or financial fraud reports. Two independent review aggregators explicitly rated the site as safe and legitimate. Active Reddit communities (r/skribbl, r/Skribblio) show users discussing gameplay and features with no security concerns. The site has maintained a consistent user base and positive reputation since its launch in 2017.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (contact@skribbl.io).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://skribbl.io/
- 2200https://skribbl.io/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on skribbl.io and not a lookalike like s-kribbl.io.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on skribbl.io. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- skribbl.io passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 88/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. skribbl.io presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YE1, expiring in 74 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report skribbl.io as clean.
- No. skribbl.io is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- skribbl.io resolves to an IP operated by OVH GmbH in DE (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- Yes. skribbl.io sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 15, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around skribbl.io have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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