My Coloring Book vs Toehold
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Coloring Book
Engage in a creative coloring experience with a vast library of hand-drawn images. This app offers a user-friendly interface with various colors and tools, perfect for both children and adults to express their artistic side. Enjoy a mess-free and accessible way to color anytime, anywhere.
- Over 350 hand-drawn pictures
- Variety of bright colors
- Develops hand-eye coordination
- Save and share creations
- Auto-save progress
- Zoom in/out for detail
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My Coloring Book is a fun coloring activity for all ages. It has a variety of bright colors to use and show off your creativity. It will keep your children busy with a positive activity that fits right into the palm of their hand. You won't have to worry about them crying over crayons or books that they have dropped and cannot reach. The touch screen is easy to pick up and play for both kids and adults. This is one iPhone / iPad app the whole family will be sure to enjoy. Features - Over 350 hand drawn pictures to color - Works on iPod, iPhone, and iPad - Help children develop hand-eye coordination - Save pictures to Photos library for easy sharing or to use as wallpaper - Automatically saves works in progress - Easy to clear coloring page and start over - Zoom in and Zoom out feature makes it easy to color smaller areas - Kid tested
Toehold
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Every other sudoku app has a hint button. You get stuck, you tap it, it fills in a square, and you have learned nothing. Toehold does the opposite. A panel sits beside your board and keeps a live inventory of the techniques that are available right now — "Hidden single ×2 · Pointing pair ×1 · X-Wing ×1" — updating on every digit and every pencil mark. It tells you what to look for. It does not tell you where. Tap a technique and it shows you the cells that make it true, and one plain sentence explaining why: "The only spots for 6 in box 2 — r1c5 and r3c5 — share column 5, so 6 leaves r4c5 and r6c5." Placing the digit is then a separate, deliberate tap. The toehold is yours; the climb is still yours too. DIFFICULTY THAT MEANS SOMETHING • Most apps grade by counting clues, which tells you nothing about how hard a puzzle is • Toehold grades by the hardest technique a puzzle actually requires • Gentle needs only singles. Steady adds locked candidates. Tricky adds pairs and triples. Tough needs X-Wing, Swordfish, or Y-Wing • Every puzzle is checked before you see it: exactly one solution, and solvable by named logic from start to finish. You will never be asked to guess ELEVEN TECHNIQUES, ALL EXPLAINED Naked and hidden singles · pointing pairs · box/line reduction · naked and hidden pairs and triples · X-Wing · Y-Wing · Swordfish. Each one names itself when it appears, so you learn the vocabulary by meeting it on your own board. BUILT FOR THE GRID • Pencil marks in a fixed 3x3 lattice, so a digit is always in the same spot • Fill all candidates in one tap, or place them yourself • Every key shows how many of that digit are left • Full undo • Optional mistake checking, off by default ON iPAD The technique panel stays open beside the board in a real two-column layout — not a stretched phone screen. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE Puzzles are generated on your device. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking, no network access of any kind. Free. Toehold is for anyone who has finished a sudoku and still could not say how they did it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Toehold at none against My Coloring Book's 1. Toehold also leads on ads (none vs shown). My Coloring Book's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price and device support 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
Both are free to download. My Coloring Book sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Toehold asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | My Coloring Book | Toehold |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (477 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 71.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 477 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jeff PEDERSEN | John Doan |
Bugs and requests
My Coloring Book
Reported bugs
3 issues- Drawings disappearing after updates
- Color picker not working properly
- Ads redirecting to App Store unexpectedly
Requested features
5 requests- More pictures and designs to color
- Ability to save and view completed drawings
- Undo/redo functionality
- Custom color palettes
- Ability to import user's own images
Toehold
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
My Coloring Book
- Remove Ads$4.99
Toehold
No in-app purchases







