BabyPaints
First Art for Tiny Hands
$3.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Ten fingers, ten colours, ten notes at once. Every stroke plays a tone from a scale that cannot sound wrong.
BabyPaints is a drawing toy for very young children. Drag a finger and it leaves a smooth coloured stroke. Every touch also plays a note, so the drawing and the music happen together.
It takes ten fingers at once. Two hands flat on the screen make ten strokes and a ten-note chord, which is the point: it rewards the way small children actually touch a screen, rather than asking them to be precise.
THE SOUND
Notes come from a pentatonic scale, so there are no wrong notes - anything played sounds like it belongs. Pitch follows the screen: higher toward the top, lower toward the bottom. Each note is panned to where the finger is, so a stroke across the screen travels across the stereo field. Sounds are synthesised as you play rather than sampled, so the same gesture is never quite the same twice.
TWO WORLDS
Classic is bright colour on black: a grid of hexagons that scatter as you draw through them.
Winter is white, with snowflakes that drift and shiver on a wind you can hear, and chime softly when they settle.
Shake the device to change worlds and start a fresh page.
MADE FOR SMALL HANDS
No menus, no buttons, no scores, no way to get lost. Nothing to read. There is no failure state - every touch does something good.
KEEPING THE DRAWINGS
Drawings are saved on their own as you go, so nothing is lost when a page is cleared or the app is put down mid-scribble. Each one is saved twice: once as you saw it on screen, and once as just the drawing on its own - the version worth printing for the fridge. They are in the Files app, under BabyPaints.
NO STRINGS
No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts. No analytics, no tracking, no data leaves the device. No internet connection required, ever.
BabyPaints was written for one particular toddler and has been quietly maintained since.
Drawing keeps up now, however much is on the page. A busy canvas used to slow the app down until it stuttered; it holds a steady frame rate whatever has been drawn.
Strokes follow your finger instead of trailing behind it, and hold an even thickness when several hands are drawing at once.
Winter has been rebuilt: the snowflakes are crisp vector crystals at any screen size, they shiver when the wind blows through, and the wind now stays out of the way while you are drawing.
Drawing is cleaner - a faint edge that used to outline every stroke is gone.
On iPad the canvas now holds still when the device is turned, instead of spinning with it.
Sound: the wind is audible where it used to be buried, and notes are steadier under ten busy fingers.
The developer, Kaolin Fire, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Kaolin Fire
- Size
- 98.5 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
• iPhone XS
• iPhone XS Max
• iPhone XR
• iPhone 11
• iPhone 11 Pro
• iPhone 11 Pro Max
• iPhone SE (2nd generation)
• iPhone 12 mini
• iPhone 12
• iPhone 12 Pro
• iPhone 12 Pro Max
• iPhone 13 Pro
• iPhone 13 Pro Max
• iPhone 13 mini
• iPhone 13
• iPhone SE (3rd generation)
• iPhone 14
• iPhone 14 Plus
• iPhone 14 Pro
• iPhone 14 Pro Max
• iPhone 15
• iPhone 15 Plus
• iPhone 15 Pro
• iPhone 15 Pro Max
• iPhone 16
• iPhone 16 Plus
• iPhone 16 Pro
• iPhone 16 Pro Max
• iPhone 16e
• iPhone 17 Pro
• iPhone 17 Pro Max
• iPhone 17
• iPhone Air
• iPhone 17e
• iPhone 18 Pro
• iPhone 18 Pro Max
• iPhone Duo - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later and a device with the A12 Bionic chip or later.
• iPad Pro (11‑inch)
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (3rd generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad mini (5th generation)
• iPad mini (5th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air (3rd generation)
• iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (2nd generation)
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (2nd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (4th generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air (4th generation)
• iPad Air (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad (8th generation)
• iPad (8th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation)
• iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad mini (6th generation)
• iPad mini (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad (9th generation)
• iPad (9th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air (5th generation)
• iPad Air (5th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad (10th generation)
• iPad (10th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (4th generation)
• iPad Pro (11‑inch) (4th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (6th generation)
• iPad Pro (12.9‑inch) (6th generation) Wi‑Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 11-inch (M2)
• iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 13-inch (M2)
• iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M4)
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M4)
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad mini (A17 Pro)
• iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad (A16)
• iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 11-inch (M3)
• iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 13-inch (M3)
• iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M5)
• iPad Pro 11-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M5)
• iPad Pro 13-inch (M5) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 11-inch (M4)
• iPad Air 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular
• iPad Air 13-inch (M4)
• iPad Air 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Made for Ages 0–5
- Copyright
- © 2014,2025 Kaolin Imago Fire

