Comparison

LOTE4Kids vs Doodle Turtle

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

LOTE4Kids

This app offers thousands of picture books for children, accessible on the go. It's designed to be secure and easy for parents and guardians to use, providing a safe digital library for young readers.

Highlights
  • Thousands of picture books
  • Ad-free experience
  • Secure for children
  • Easy to use interface
  • On-the-go access
Features
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The LOTE4Kids App is easy to use, ad-free, and secure, enabling parents and guardians to conveniently and safely provide children with thousands of picture books on the go!

About

Doodle Turtle

Features
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Doodle Turtle draws at the speed of a three-year-old. Every other drawing app moves at a grown-up's pace. A line appears, then another, then another, and your child is still working on the first one. So you end up hovering over the pause button, rewinding, pausing again. Ask any parent of a preschooler how that goes. Doodle Turtle fixes it in the simplest possible way. It draws one line, slowly. Then it stops. And it waits, with a real and generous pause, long enough for a small hand to finish before the next line begins. No pause button required. Nobody is rushing anybody. That is the whole app. HOW IT WORKS 1. Your child picks a picture: a cat, a fish, a house, an ice cream. 2. Doodle Turtle draws it once, all the way through, so your child can see where it is going. 3. Then it starts again, one stroke at a time, with a warm voice saying what to draw ("A big round face!"), a gentle ding, and a quiet pause while your child draws that stroke on their own paper. 4. At the end, their drawing goes into a picture frame. Because it should. WHAT IS INSIDE - Slow, stroke-by-stroke drawing lessons made for ages 3 to 5 - A spoken cue for every single stroke, clear and encouraging - Two speeds: Turtle for the youngest hands, Bunny once they are confident - Tap mode, where your child taps when they are ready, so the app never moves first - Draw on the screen: trace over a faded guide with a fingertip - Free Doodle: a blank canvas for when they just want to invent something - Coloring: tap a space to fill it or a line to color it, or use a crayon that stays inside the lines - Printable tracing sheets for every picture, for crayons and real paper - Works completely offline, in the car, on a plane, in a waiting room BUILT FOR SMALL PEOPLE - No ads. Not one, anywhere, ever. - No in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no upsells. - No accounts and no sign-in. Nothing to type. - No data collected. No analytics, no tracking, no server. The app makes no network requests at all. - The one link that leaves the app sits behind a parental gate a young child cannot pass. - Big buttons, no menus to get lost in, nothing breakable. WHY A TURTLE I built this for my daughter, who is three and a half, who loves to draw, and who was getting frustrated with every drawing video we tried because all of them went too fast. She picked the turtle. He is slow, and that is entirely the point. Doodle Turtle is quiet, patient, and never in a hurry. Neither is your kid.

Screenshots

LOTE4Kids4 screens
Doodle Turtle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Doodle Turtle at 5.0 against LOTE4Kids's 4.5. LOTE4Kids's advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Doodle Turtle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LOTE4Kids has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LOTE4Kids ships an update every 10 days, Doodle Turtle every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
LOTE4Kids versus Doodle Turtle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLOTE4KidsDoodle Turtle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (19 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings19 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size81 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStorytime PODs Pty LtdAO TANG

In-app purchases

None

LOTE4Kids

No in-app purchases

None

Doodle Turtle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LOTE4Kids free?
LOTE4Kids is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Doodle Turtle free?
Doodle Turtle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LOTE4Kids or Doodle Turtle?
Doodle Turtle is rated higher. LOTE4Kids averages 4.5 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while Doodle Turtle averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do LOTE4Kids or Doodle Turtle have ads?
Neither LOTE4Kids nor Doodle Turtle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, LOTE4Kids or Doodle Turtle?
LOTE4Kids ships an update every 10 days, and Doodle Turtle every 9 days. Most recently, LOTE4Kids was updated on November 3, 2026 and Doodle Turtle on November 10, 2026.

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