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DoodlePals
Draw-along for ages 6–8: Ovo, Zig and Boxy show a picture one shape at a time as a faint guide under your own paper, and Scribble draws it wobbly first, so your wobbly lines are how drawing looks. Sixteen pictures, a how-to card to print, nothing checks or scores your drawing. On-device.
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Meet the cast
DoodlePals has a tiny friendly crew of drawing friends who make drawing anything something a six-year-old can hold: Scribble draws wobbly lines first, so a wobbly line is how drawing looks; Ovo finds the oval hiding inside heads, eggs and wheels; Zig shows how a point makes ears, roofs and tails, and a repeated point makes a zigzag pattern; and Boxy builds big pictures from boxes and long lines, one shape at a time. Each friend shows ONE gentle idea about drawing; nothing checks or scores what you draw.
Scribble
Wobble first - Scribble, who draws wobbly lines on purpose: every drawer's lines wobble, so a wobbly line is not a mistake but how drawing looks - keep going
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Ovo
The oval inside - Ovo, who draws ovals and circles and finds them hiding inside things: heads, bodies, eggs and wheels all start as ovals
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Zig
Points and zigzags - Zig, who draws points and zigzags: a point makes an ear, a roof or a tail, and a point drawn again and again makes a zigzag pattern
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Boxy
One shape at a time - Boxy, who builds big pictures from boxes and long lines, adding one shape at a time, so you never draw it all at once
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What's inside
Learning goal
Draw-along for ages 6–8: Ovo, Zig and Boxy show a picture one shape at a time as a faint guide under your own paper, and Scribble draws it wobbly first, so your wobbly lines are how drawing looks. Sixteen pictures, a how-to card to print, nothing checks or scores your drawing. On-device.
Mentored by Scribble — no data leaves the device.
How DoodlePals handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages