Little Lines: Kids Coloring

Little Lines is a coloring book for kids on iPad and iPhone, optimized for iPhone Duo. Scribble over the lines as wildly as you like with Apple Pencil or a finger: the color stays in the area where the stroke started, so even the youngest finish a picture they want to show you. Little ones fill a whole area with one tap or a scribble. Older kids paint with real brushes, and on iPad the line gets wider and stronger the harder they press with Apple Pencil.

There are 500 pictures, ordered from the easiest to the hardest. Big simple shapes for toddlers, busy scenes for school kids, and stained glass, patterns and 80 mandalas for experts and grown-ups. Animals, dinosaurs, unicorns, vehicles, the seasons, letters and numbers.

Six ways to color let the app grow with your child: colors that appear by themselves, scribbling, tap to fill, nine big colors, your own palette with favorites, and free drawing. Ten brushes and effects range from pencil and oil paint to glitter and rainbow.

It is more than coloring pages. Connect the dots has 72 pictures in four levels, the hardest with over 600 dots. Color by number works with a tap or with a brush. Finish the picture has 27 drawings with something missing, and the app reads the task aloud. Tracing teaches letters and numbers stroke by stroke, in print and in cursive modeled on the handwriting children learn at school. Guessing games ask about colors, letters and numbers out loud, so no reading is needed. Notebooks have lined, squared or blank paper and a full screen mode for writing.

A friendly recorded voice speaks all 15 of the app's languages and works offline.

On iPhone Duo, Little Lines changes with the phone. Closed, everything fits the outer screen. Open it and the picture you are coloring carries on across the big inner screen, with the roomy layout of the iPad. Half folded like a little laptop, the picture sits on the upper half and the tools on the lower one, so the fold never gets in the way.

Add your own pictures from Photos or Files, or draw your own coloring page. Smart colors recognize what a picture shows, right on the device, and pick colors that fit.

Every finished picture earns a sticker, 40 in all, and bigger milestones earn badges. A time-lapse video shows how a picture or a notebook page came to be. Siblings each get their own profile, and left-handers get a layout made for them.

The settings sit behind a lock for grown-ups: drawing style, a daily time limit, sounds and music, saving progress. Sharing and printing are for grown-ups only.

You can try it for free. The download includes a little of everything: 5 coloring pages, 2 connect the dots and 2 color by number pictures, 2 drawings to finish, the first letters of each tracing set, a few guessing games, one notebook and 5 stickers. The full version is a single purchase, never a subscription. It works on all your iPhones and iPads with the same Apple Account, and with Family Sharing for the whole family.

No ads, no tracking, no accounts. Little Lines collects no data and works without internet.