Doodle Turtle draws one line, then waits for your child to catch up. New for the holidays: 21 festive pictures, and now the lines can be colored too.
Doodle Turtle draws at the speed of a three-year-old.
Every other drawing app moves at a grown-up's pace. A line appears, then another, then another, and your child is still working on the first one. So you end up hovering over the pause button, rewinding, pausing again. Ask any parent of a preschooler how that goes.
Doodle Turtle fixes it in the simplest possible way. It draws one line, slowly. Then it stops. And it waits, with a real and generous pause, long enough for a small hand to finish before the next line begins. No pause button required. Nobody is rushing anybody.
That is the whole app.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Your child picks a picture: a cat, a fish, a house, an ice cream.
2. Doodle Turtle draws it once, all the way through, so your child can see where it is going.
3. Then it starts again, one stroke at a time, with a warm voice saying what to draw ("A big round face!"), a gentle ding, and a quiet pause while your child draws that stroke on their own paper.
4. At the end, their drawing goes into a picture frame. Because it should.
WHAT IS INSIDE
- Slow, stroke-by-stroke drawing lessons made for ages 3 to 5
- A spoken cue for every single stroke, clear and encouraging
- Two speeds: Turtle for the youngest hands, Bunny once they are confident
- Tap mode, where your child taps when they are ready, so the app never moves first
- Draw on the screen: trace over a faded guide with a fingertip
- Free Doodle: a blank canvas for when they just want to invent something
- Coloring: tap a space to fill it or a line to color it, or use a crayon that stays inside the lines
- Printable tracing sheets for every picture, for crayons and real paper
- Works completely offline, in the car, on a plane, in a waiting room
BUILT FOR SMALL PEOPLE
- No ads. Not one, anywhere, ever.
- No in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no upsells.
- No accounts and no sign-in. Nothing to type.
- No data collected. No analytics, no tracking, no server. The app makes no network requests at all.
- The one link that leaves the app sits behind a parental gate a young child cannot pass.
- Big buttons, no menus to get lost in, nothing breakable.
WHY A TURTLE
I built this for my daughter, who is three and a half, who loves to draw, and who was getting frustrated with every drawing video we tried because all of them went too fast. She picked the turtle. He is slow, and that is entirely the point.
Doodle Turtle is quiet, patient, and never in a hurry. Neither is your kid.
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Made for iPhone Duo: Doodle Turtle fills the cover screen and the big inner screen, and a picture your child is coloring carries on when you unfold.
Color the lines too: tap a line to give it a color, or start a crayon on a line to color along it. Even little eyes can be colored now.
21 new pictures for the holidays: 7 for Thanksgiving, 7 winter things and 7 for Christmas, on a new Winter & Holidays shelf that moves to the front in November and December. 248 pictures in all.
The four big pictures on the home screen now change each time your child sits down to draw, picked from our newer drawings.
For grown-ups: a Rate Doodle Turtle row in the grown-up panel, behind the parent check.
Still no ads, no purchases, no accounts, no network.
Version 1.7
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Information
Seller
AO TANG
Size
60.1 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.