Ages 4 to 9

Drawing, one stroke at a time.

A line appears on the page. Your child traces it, hears a friendly hint, and earns a star. Stroke by stroke a finished picture arrives, and it is theirs to colour in.

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702 drawings
23 categories
4 languages
Works offline

Step 1 Watch it draw itself.

Three ways to draw

Every drawing can be done three ways, in order. Memory stays closed on a drawing until your child has finished it in Follow, so it arrives as something earned rather than another locked door.

Trace

The line stays on the page. Draw straight over the top of it. Nothing to get wrong.

Follow

The line appears, then fades. Watch where it went, then draw it yourself.

Memory

No line at all. Draw it from what you remember, with only the spoken hint to help. Opens once Follow is done.

What is inside

The library is built for a child in Bangladesh, and works anywhere.

Letters and numbers

Bangla, Hindi, English and Arabic alphabets, traced from the real letterforms rather than approximated. Numbers from one to a hundred. Free from day one

Amar Desh

The rickshaw, the hilsa, the shapla, the national flag, the nouka and the village hut. Things a child here already knows by sight. Free from day one

The world

Animals, farm animals, sea and river life, insects, fruits, vegetables, food, festivals, vehicles, cars, shapes, nature, home, games and 111 country flags.

Places and scenes

Tea gardens, the Sundarban, the long sea beach, hills and waterfalls. Bedrooms, kitchens, playgrounds, markets and rooftops.

Turn a photo into a drawing

Point the camera at a toy, a colouring book or the family cat.

1. Take the photo

From the camera, or from pictures already on the phone.

2. It finds the subject

The background is set aside, so what comes back is the cat rather than the sofa behind it. The subject is thinned down to its outlines, and the app works out the order to draw them in.

3. Draw it

It is saved as a lesson of their own, with colours sampled from the photo itself.

Photos never leave the phone. The conversion happens on the device, with no server involved.

For parents

0accounts or sign-ups

0bytes of data collected

3adverts a day, at most

262drawings open on day one

0adverts a child can start alone

Does it need the internet?

No. Every drawing, every hint and every spoken word is inside the app. It works on a plane, on a bus, and on a phone with no data left.

Can my child get lost in it or find something they should not?

There is nowhere else to go. No links, no browser, no other people. Settings sit behind a parent gate that a young child cannot pass, and a break reminder can be set to ten, twenty or thirty minutes, or switched off.

What happens to the drawings they make?

They are saved in the app's own private storage on that phone. Nothing is uploaded. If you share one, you choose where it goes, using the phone's normal share sheet.

My child is four, and my niece is nine. Does one app suit both?

There are two settings. Little Artist, for four to six, accepts a much looser line. Confident Kid, for seven to nine, asks for more accuracy. You can change it at any time in the parent area.

There are adverts. How do they work?

Only one kind: a short video that somebody has to ask for by tapping a button that says exactly what it is. None ever interrupts a drawing and none plays on its own. Six categories are open from the start and always stay open — Bangla letters, Hindi letters, English letters, Numbers 1 to 100, Amar Desh, and Games and toys — which is 262 of the 702 drawings. The other seventeen open one at a time when a grown-up chooses to watch one video, and stay open afterwards. A child cannot start a video alone; the parent gate stands in front of it. Nobody sees more than three videos a day. There is a switch in the parent area that turns them off completely, and every request is tagged as child-directed and capped at a G rating, so nothing is targeted at your child.

Which languages does it speak?

English, Bangla, Hindi and Arabic. Not just the buttons: every hint and every drawing name is read out loud in the language you choose, and Arabic lays the whole app out right to left.