Tap inside any shape and it fills. That is the whole control scheme. You can hand it to a three-year-old and then go and make a cup of tea.
Free to download for Android phones and tablets.
There is a brush too, for scribbling, and it physically cannot cross a line — so a picture never gets away from a child who is still learning to steer.
Hand-drawn line art with big, bold outlines. Cats, owls, elephants, a snail, a peacock and a baby dinosaur. Race cars, a steam train, a rocket and a friendly robot. Sea turtles, a coral reef, butterflies and a rainbow unicorn. Cupcakes, kites, castles and hot air balloons.
A hundred choices at once is paralysing at this age. The book starts with two and opens the next two each time a page is finished — so there is always something to work towards, and never a wall of options.
Everything is saved exactly as they left it, so a half-finished cat is still there tomorrow. The page shelf slowly turns into a gallery of their own colouring.
Later pages have more areas to fill, never finer detail. Every shape on every page is big enough for a small finger. Finish one and you get confetti, a gold star, and Pip — a small teal colour cub who lives in the crayon box.
Color Magic has no networking code, so it has no way to send anything anywhere.
Not between pages, not anywhere.
The app collects nothing at all.
It asks for none, and has no networking code.
The first 15 pages are free; a single payment unlocks the rest. No subscription, and nothing else is ever offered.
No links out, no chat, no social features. The purchase screen is behind a question only an adult can answer.
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Ages 3 to 6. Every shape is big enough for a small finger, a tap fills it, and the brush can't cross a line. Later pages have more areas to fill, never finer detail.
Yes. The app has no networking code, so colouring never needs the internet. The only time a connection is needed is if a parent chooses to buy the full book through Google Play.
The app is free to download and the first 15 pages are free to keep. A single payment unlocks all 100 pages. There is no subscription and nothing else is ever offered, and the book comes back by itself if you reinstall on the same Google account.
No adverts anywhere, no links out, no chat and no social features. The purchase screen and the "Rate it" link sit behind a question only an adult can answer.
No. There are no analytics, no tracking and no third-party SDKs, and the app asks for no permissions. Their colouring is saved on the device only. Read the privacy policy.
Android phones and tablets, from Google Play. There is no iPhone or iPad version at the moment.
Yes. A selection of the pages is free to print at home or school, on A4 or US Letter paper: free printable colouring pages.
