A little guide
for grown-ups.
Make Doodle a small, happy part of your family’s day.
Start together, start small
Open the first shape level or the Playground and explore a few tools together. For younger children, one mark can be a lovely beginning. Follow their interest, offer help when they want it, and finish whenever it feels right for your family.
Three ways to create
- Adventure Map: 100 drawing levels across 13 worlds, from basic shapes to science, culture and imaginative challenges. Lessons include spoken fun facts and on-device drawing recognition.
- Draw-Along: 25 lessons with small drawing steps and visual guides.
- Playground: open-ended drawing with no target, recognition score or time pressure in the activity.
Later worlds introduce complex ideas. Explore those with a grown-up and choose what suits your child’s interests and current abilities. Doodle is a creative activity, not a developmental assessment.
Set a comfortable rhythm
Open Settings through the parent gate, then choose the parent dashboard. Review daily and weekly play time and set a daily limit. When that limit is reached, the app pauses play with a break reminder. An adult can use the parent gate to continue.
You can control music, sound effects and Doodle’s voice separately in Settings. Light and dark themes are available in the app. This website has a Calm mode and respects your device’s reduced-motion setting.
Balance digital drawing with paper, crayons, movement and time together. “Tell me about your drawing” is a lovely place to start.
Free play, ads and Premium
The first five adventure levels: free, ad-free and available offline.
Other free adventure levels: require an internet connection and may include ads. Some content can be temporarily unlocked with earned coins or an optional rewarded video.
Premium: one purchase unlocks all adventure levels, removes ads and enables offline adventure play. The store displays the price for your region. There is no recurring subscription.
Ad-based level unlocks currently last 20 minutes, while coin-based unlocks last seven days. Premium access is permanent for the applicable store account, subject to the purchase terms. Temporary access is explained in the app before you choose it.
Ads are configured for child-directed, non-personalized treatment. That does not mean ad services process no data: device identifiers and technical information may still be involved. Read the advertising policy and privacy policy for details.
Your child’s creations
Drawings and progress are stored locally. Sharing is disabled by default. If you choose to enable sharing, check the destination with your child. The app does not provide a public social feed or chat.
The optional name entered during onboarding is a local personalization setting. Avoid using a child’s full name. You can remove saved artwork in the app or follow the data-deletion guide. Clearing app data or uninstalling can remove locally saved work, so keep copies of artwork you want to retain.
About this website’s activities
The app tour uses real screen captures with selected interactive areas. Example lesson results and rewards are taken from an app capture; they do not grade your website drawing. The free doodle and shape activities are separate web experiences and do not sync with the app.
Website drawings stay in the open page. Saving downloads a PNG directly to your device. Refreshing or leaving the page clears the activity. We don’t ask children to sign in, submit a drawing, or give us personal information.
When you need a hand
For purchase restoration, sound, drawing, or device questions, visit Help & support. Please have a grown-up contact us and avoid sending personal information about a child.