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Hey, I was looking for a coloring app for my daughter and kept running into subscriptions. The ones without a subscription? She just didn’t really enjoy them. I wanted something she would actually like using, without adding another recurring payment just so she could color a dinosaur. So naturally, I went with the very reasonable alternative: building an entire app myself. It’s called Color This (Mal das mal in German), and it’s available for iPhone and iPad, designed mainly for kids aged 2–5. It has 13 themed worlds, no ads, no tracking, and no app account. Drawing and coloring work offline. There are dinosaurs, unicorns, construction vehicles, underwater creatures, and plenty more, with pencils, brushes, watercolor, chalk, and glitter. One detail I really like: the pictures your child colors appear back in their little world with those exact colors. A purple dinosaur stays purple when they return to the dinosaur scene, so the whole world gradually becomes their own. There’s also a blank canvas for drawing freely. Parents can also turn their own photos into coloring pages—a favorite toy, a pet, whatever they’d like to paint. The photo conversion happens directly on the device, without uploading the photos to a server. There’s an optional AI picture-creation feature through Apple Image Playground, too. A parent can describe an idea and turn the result into a coloring template. This requires supported Apple Intelligence hardware and iOS/iPadOS 27 or later. Unlike the local photo conversion, this feature can involve online services depending on the selected mode. It’s free to download and try, with one-time purchases instead of subscriptions. Free drawing, one picture in every world, and the first custom template are included. That custom-template trial can be used for either a photo or an AI picture. More content is available through individual world purchases or the all-world pack; creating additional custom templates is a separate one-time unlock. This started as something for my own family, but I figured other parents might be looking for the same thing: a coloring app their kid enjoys, without another subscription to manage. App Store: Color This / Mal das mal I’d love some honest feedback, especially on the kid-friendly interface and whether the free content gives you enough to decide whether it’s a good fit. Currently i'm not planning a release for Android mostly because i do not have a device to test it on.   submitted by   /u/51GL [link]   [comments]

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