Ages 4 to 9

Drawing lessons for kids, one line at a time.

Choose a picture, follow the lines and colour it in. AnkoKids helps children practise drawing with spoken hints, tracing guides and stars for completed lessons.

Free on Android, now on Google Play. Privacy and data

702 drawings
23 categories
4 languages
Works offline

Step 1 Watch each line appear.

Three ways to draw

Choose Trace or Follow for each lesson. Finish Follow to open Memory mode for that picture.

Trace

The guide stays on the page while your child draws over it.

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

Trace Bangla, Hindi, English and Arabic letters, plus numbers from 1 to 100. Bangla, Hindi, English and numbers are open from the start; Arabic opens through category progress or a parent-gated video.

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. Preview the sketch and tracing

See a pencil sketch and a separate tracing preview. Adjust the detail, or turn off subject focus to include a whole scene or several objects.

3. Draw it

Check the tracing preview, then save it as a lesson with colours sampled from the photo. The reference photo is available while drawing. You can also save just the pencil sketch to the gallery.

Photo conversion runs on the device and does not upload the image. Clear outlines and simple backgrounds work best. Blurry or complex photos can produce incomplete tracing lessons; not every photo will make a useful lesson.

Free drawing and a gallery to keep

Make your own picture

Use brushes, shapes, letters and earned stickers, with an eraser and undo/redo for edits.

Pick up where you stopped

The current free-draw page saves locally and restores after a restart. Undo history lasts for the current session.

See the whole drawing

Gallery thumbnails keep the full picture visible. Open a drawing to zoom in, or share it through the parent gate. Loading problems offer a retry.

For parents

Updated 6 September 2026 for the current Android app.

0accounts or sign-ups

4languages to choose from

3adverts a day, at most

262drawings open on day one

Offchild-facing video offers by default

Does it need the internet?

Drawing lessons, colouring and photo conversion work offline. Spoken hints need a voice installed on the phone. Optional adverts use the internet and can load before a video is requested.

What controls are available for parents?

A parent gate protects settings and sharing. Parents can adjust drawing difficulty, set a break reminder and turn off ads. The app has no chat or social feed.

What happens to the drawings they make?

Saved drawings stay in the app gallery. The current free-draw page also saves as a draft and opens again after a restart. Sharing uses the phone's share sheet, so the family chooses where a drawing goes.

Can younger and older children use it?

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: finishing every drawing in a category opens the next one, or a grown-up can choose to watch one video to open a category straight away. Either way it stays open afterwards. Opening a category with a video requires the parent gate. Other video offers are hidden from children unless a parent enables them. Nobody sees more than three videos a day. There is a switch in the parent area that turns them off completely, and ad requests use child age treatment and a G content rating.

Which languages does it speak?

English, Bangla, Hindi and Arabic. Buttons, lesson names and hints support all four languages. Spoken hints use the selected voice on the phone. Arabic uses a right-to-left layout.