Thursday 31 January 2013

Staff Recommended Apps of the Week - Coloring / Drawing


Paint My Wings



By Toca Boca AB

This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • 1,79 €
  • Category: Education
  • Updated: 12 October 2012
  • Version: 1.1.2
  • Size: 13.4 MB
  • Language: English
  • Developer: Toca Boca AB
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

iTunes link 

Description

Paint My Wings is a fun and easy way for your kids to paint beautiful butterflies! Simply choose a color and start drawing on one wing to make the identical pattern appear on the opposite side.

Three different butterflies talks and tells you what colors are chosen - and laughs when you tickle it! When you've finished painting, take a snapshot of the butterfly to save a picture of it on your device!

* A FUN DRAWING GAME FOR KIDS AGE 2 AND ABOVE! *


Drawing Pad


By Darren Murtha Design



  • $1.99
  • Category: Entertainment
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2012
  • Version: 2.3
  • Size: 94.9 MB
  • Languages: English, Arabic, Bokmål, Norwegian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
  • Seller: Darren Murtha

iTunes link

Description

★★★★★ Apple picked Drawing Pad as "iPad App of the Week" in TWELVE COUNTRIES! 

Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
Cheaper than a box of crayons! Drawing Pad is a mobile art studio designed exclusively for the iPad! The beautiful user interface puts the fun into creating art :-)

Create your own art using "actual-sized" photo-realistic crayons, markers, paint brushes, colored pencils, stickers, roller pens and MORE! Save your artwork to your Drawing Pad Album and reload it later to keep working on your masterpiece!

Save to Device Camera Roll Photos, share via Email, Twitter or Facebook (note to Facebook users, once you upload a drawing, log onto your Facebook account and "Approve the Pending Drawing Pad Album). Use iOS Photo App to set your new creations as your desktop background!

Blender tool allows you to soften and blend colors! Photo stickers! Use one finger to move your photo and two fingers to rotate and resize. Optimized drawing code for better performance.

✓ In App Purchases now available as downloadable content! 10 Beautifully illustrated coloring books; Dinosaurs, Transportation, Space, Occupations, Robots, More Fun, Fairy Tale, Farm, Sea Life, and Winter Holiday. Features a new bookshelf to store your purchases and a fun interface to choose which page to color.

Draw and Tell - by Duck Duck Moose


By Duck Duck Moose

  • 1,79 €
  • Category: Education
  • Updated: 11 October 2012
  • Version: 1.1.2
  • Size: 21.7 MB
  • Language: English
  • Developer: Duck Duck Moose, Partnership
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later.

iTunes link

Description

Draw and Tell is the best drawing app for kids of all ages. Draw or color, add stickers, then talk about your drawing. Move the stickers to create an animation! Your memories and voice recording will be saved with your drawing. 
DRAW: Be creative!
- 27 crayons, 27 paint brushes, and 27 pencils
- 150+ stickers with animals, food, cars, letters
- 32 papers and 22 patterns
- Rainbow and glow-in-the-dark crayons!
- 60+ stencils (iPad version only)

TELL: Create a story.
- Talk about your drawing or tell a story
- Move the stickers as you talk
- Save the drawing with recordings to photo album

COLOR & SHARE: Save a memory.
- Coloring pages with Duck Duck Moose friends!
- Save your drawings and recordings to share

Pirate Scribblebeard's Treasure by Kidoodle - Your child's drawings come to life as they tell the story!


By Kidoodle Apps

  • $1.99
  • Category: Education
  • Updated: Dec 29, 2012
  • Version: 2.0.200
  • Size: 23.0 MB
  • Languages: English, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
  • Seller: Michelangelo Capraro
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

iTunes link

Description

Your child draws and their drawings come to life! Join Oscar, Josephine and Pirate Scribblebeard in this groundbreaking, animated, drawing app that encourages creativity!

✔ Encourages creativity and imagination through drawing and storytelling

✔ Child's drawings become part of delightful animated cut-scenes as they complete the story

✔ Oscar, Josephine and friends narrate each page and encourage your child with quirky and humorous animations

✔ Easy to jump right in, no intimidating big blank page

✔ Hours of engagement with 17 pages to draw and free future updates

✔ Exercises fine-motor skills and encourages those hesitant to draw

✔ Designed with love by parents. Tested, played with, and approved by children 3 to 10 years-old (1st through 5th grade)

123 Color HD: Talking Coloring Book (English, Spanish, French and German Voice-Overs Included)


By Steve Glinberg

This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • 0,89 €
  • Category: Education
  • Updated: 11 October 2011
  • Version: 2.0.17
  • Size: 100 MB
  • Language: English
  • Developer: Steve Glinberg
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1 or later.

iTunes link

Description

123 Color teaches numbers, letters (upper and lower case), and colors, spoken in English, Spanish, French, and German, with engaging artwork, voice-overs, music, sound effects, and animation.

123 Color HD is jam packed with features and teaches the following skills:
• Numbers, letters (upper and lower case), and colors, spoken in English, Spanish, French, and German
• Spelling of numbers and colors in all four languages
• Basic shapes including squares, triangles, circles, ovals, parallelograms, and trapezoids,
• Compound shapes including cubes, pyramids, cones, wedges, concentric circles, and more
• World maps teach the shapes of our world (iPad only)
• Artistic expression, drawing and painting skills


iLuv Drawing Animals - Learn how to draw 40 animals step by step.


By MyVijan LLC

  • $2.99
  • Category: Education
  • Updated: Nov 06, 2012
  • Version: 1.8
  • Size: 63.9 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: myvijan llc
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 3.2 or later

iTunes link

Description

Cultivate the love for drawing and boost your confidence as an artist with this super simple, learn to draw application featuring 40 popular animals and many attractive features!
Look for an educational and creative value beyond coloring apps, or drawing apps with blank pages!

✔ Learn to draw by tracing over step by step templates.
✔ Very intuitive and easy to use interface.
✔ Friendly voice instructions.
✔ 40 popular animals to choose from.
✔ A vibrant coloring pallet to color the finished drawing.
✔ Combined brush and color pallet.
✔ 30 custom backgrounds and textures to add to the finished drawing.
✔ Add stickers to the drawing.
✔ Editing tools such as eraser, redo, undo, start over.
✔ Save in a drawing book or photos.
✔ Print your masterpiece.
✔ Ability to edit the saved drawing.
✔ Blank pages to practice what you learned or freehand drawing.




Drawing with Carl


By Tayasui



This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • $0.99
  • Category: Entertainment
  • Updated: Nov 09, 2012
  • Version: 2.2
  • Size: 38.5 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: tayasui
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

iTunes link

Description

Simply the best drawing App for kids in the Appstore.
***** Stars all over the world.
Making beautiful drawings has never been so easy thanks to Carl.
You can even play with talking stickers that repeat anything you say with a funny voice!

Enjoy many powerful and easy to use tools that helps you make great drawings.
Create your own set with Talking Carl and draw Talking Monsters!
Explore creative drawing with Mirror painting.
Easily share your drawings and vote for the best ones.

Write your name with sticker letters.
Draw mustaches or funny eyes on your friends pictures.
Add stickers of Carl and his friends.
Share your creations on FaceBook or by email.
Save to the photo Album.

FEATURES:
• Easy and fun drawing tools
• The real talking Carl is alive!
• Magical pattern paint bucket
• Mirror drawing
• Cool stickers of Carl and friends
• Share on Facebook Wall
• Email your drawings
• Import from photo libraty
• Save and load
• iPad compatible

Specifically designed for kids, Drawing with Carl help you make great drawings and share them with your parents and friends.



Eye Paint Animals

By Curious Hat

This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • Free
  • Category: Education
  • Updated: Dec 17, 2012
  • Version: 1.1
  • Size: 33.4 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: Curious Hat, Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

iTunes link

Description

⦿ EyePaint ⦿ offers your child the opportunity to create amazing images alongside world-renowned artists, by completing their illustrations and making them their own. 
Features:
⦿ Paint with the camera capturing colors, patterns and textures around you
⦿ Illustrations from Italian artist Giorgio Cavazzano
⦿ Tap to select an area or use the brush for finer control
⦿ Continue where you left off or start a new painting session
⦿ Save your work to the Photo Library for later sharing and printing
⦿ Stuck? Wait for the hand to tell you what to do!
⦿ No social sharing options

The final result is a drawing full of organic features, shades and details that cannot be achieved with any other traditional painting app.

The ⦿ EyePaint ⦿ interface is colorful, animated and extremely simple - even for very young children. 

Ellie's Wings


By daniel Sonnenfeld

  • $1.99
  • Category: Education
  • Updated: Oct 17, 2012
  • Version: 1.0.4
  • Size: 24.8 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: daniel Sonnenfeld
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later.

iTunes link

Description

*Voted as top 10 must have coloring games / books for children!* This is not you regular coloring game. Animation, Sound and great graphics all combine to make this the BEST coloring game book for kids. 
Ellie's Wings offers beautifully animated animals that need your help in coloring their wings, coloring or decorating one wing will show an identical pattern on the other wing,
but WAIT, It is not just about coloring Ellie's wings gives you the option to add handmade animations, color splatters and even a spider making it a fun and unique app.

All the animals laugh, get excited and even faint reacting to according to your choice and patten of colors or animated decoration placed on the wing.

Game consists of 6 different animals:
①Butterfly
②Bee
③Friendly dragon
④Peacock
⑤Dragon fly
⑥Horse

Art Of Glow - Pro


By Natenai Ariyatrakool

This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • 0,89 €
  • Category: Entertainment
  • Updated: 17 July 2012
  • Version: 1.1.1
  • Size: 8.2 MB
  • Language: English
  • Developer: Natenai Ariyatrakool
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.

iTunes link

Description


'Art of Glow' will make you feel more relax, fun, and easy to create variety of glow artworks!

Art of Glow is elegantly designed with the high flexibility adjustments, vivid glow colors, and many options.

What can 'Art Of Glow' do?
+ Glow/light paintings.
+ Fireworks.
+ Twinkle stars.
+ Animated text arts.
+ Record your animated artworks and playback later.
+ Save your artworks as image.
+ And much more with unlimited settings + your imaginations.

FEATURES:
+ High details graphics for iPhone 4 Retina display and iPad.
+ Colorful (ANIMATED) Glow Particles.
+ Smooth and fun to play.
+ Record your animated artworks and playback later.
+ Save your artworks as image.
+ Unlimited styles of particles settings.
+ Support All Apple Devices: iPhone4, iPad, iPod Touch.
+ Support Multitasking on iOS4.

Video Tutorials: http://www.natenai.com/iphone/art_of_glow/

Magic Painter

By YII UNIVERSAL ELITE LTD

This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
  • $0.99
  • Category: Entertainment
  • Updated: Dec 30, 2012
  • Version: 2.0
  • Size: 23.2 MB
  • Languages: English, Chinese
  • Seller: YII UNIVERSAL ELITE LTD
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

iTunes link

Description

Watch the demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Svkzt13JY

Features:

- 11 different kinds of brushes(Rope,Rejoice,Splashing,Pixel,Fantasy,Vine,Oil,Silky,Galaxy,Coral,Quills).
- Size adjustment slider.
- Tens of color and style choose available for every brush.
- Thousands style to combination!
- Eraser tool,4 shade intensity available.
- Undo function(1 times).
- Save to Camera Roll.
- Twitter/Facebook/Flicker/Mail post function.

Hippo Seasons


By Hippotrix

  • $2.99
  • Category: Education
  • Updated: Oct 03, 2012
  • Version: 1.1
  • Size: 27.8 MB
  • Language: English
  • Seller: Hippotrix Ltd
Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.

iTunes link

Description


Hippo Seasons lets kids explore the four seasons. Crunch in leaves! Roll a snowball! Plant bulbs! Mow the lawn! Fun exploratory play to educate and entertain with a beautiful soundscape. Spin, swipe, tap - then 'take a snapshot' to share your creations in the Hippotrix Gallery! Play, draw and experiment in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Open ended play designed for 18m - 6yrs, yet this iPad app will enchant older children & adults too.

The app uses no on-screen text or voices; making it ideal for players of any age and for use by all nationalities. We have no in-app purchases or advertising to distract or lead young users away to unsafe areas. Please visit our website and watch the trailer to see how you can play and explore


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1 comment:

  1. Hello,

    Great post !

    We also have 2 apps on that topic :

    - One memory game , that play with sounds, words and pictures : you have to associate not only two pictures, but also a picture and its sound, a picture and its word (available with a native american or french speaker)
    Direct Link : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/le-memory-plume-les-couleurs/id560913130?mt=8&uo=4
    More infos : http://www.aetys.fr/#/product/fr.aetys.memory.color.fr/us

    - A book of picture for baby, available in english or american. Baby have 4 buttons to interact with the colors, you have two mode of reading (automatic or full sliding to turn the page).
    Direct Link : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mon-premier-livre-les-couleurs/id560907510?mt=8&uo=4
    More infos : http://www.aetys.fr/#/product/fr.aetys.imagier.color.fr/us (with a video demo)

    We are a small editor (a really small, in fact just me :) that want to provide educative apps around the letters.

    Thanks !

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