Comparison

Tiny Paint Studio vs Squigglings

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

Head to head
About

Tiny Paint Studio

Features
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Make room for big ideas and little fingers. Tiny Paint Studio is a playful drawing and coloring app for kids on iPad and iPhone. Start with a blank page, choose an illustrated picture, or try a drawing adventure. Paint with a finger or Apple Pencil and make every picture your own. DRAW YOUR WAY Choose Brush, Crayon, Rainbow, and Eraser from a simple toolbox. Explore extra brushes and colorful effects in Magic & more, with adjustable brush sizes and plenty of colors. COLOR AND EXPLORE Discover 23 illustrated coloring pages, including a friendly monster. Tap to fill a shape, or turn on Stay Inside to help Brush, Crayon, and Rainbow marks stay within a coloring region. MAKE IT YOURS Stamp stickers again and again, then move, resize, and turn them. Try four optional adventures: Funny monster, Rocket party, Ocean friends, and Happy garden. Or follow your own imagination with free drawing. KEEP CREATING Undo and redo as you experiment. Save pictures to your gallery, reopen them to add more, and pick up an unfinished picture when you return. Save artwork to Photos or share it with family. SIMPLE FOR FAMILIES Tiny Paint Studio works offline, with no ads, accounts, tracking, or in-app purchases. Drawings are stored on your device. Free to use, with room to create at your own pace.

About

Squigglings

This app guides children through drawing various objects step-by-step, making art accessible for all skill levels. It offers over 3,900 drawings, with each step clearly indicated and animated. The app is designed for young users with large buttons and simple instructions, and it works offline.

Highlights
  • Step-by-step drawing guidance
  • Over 3,900 drawings
  • Animated drawing demonstrations
  • Offline functionality
  • Progress tracking with checkmarks
  • Daily new drawings
  • Printable outlines
Features
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YOUR KID CAN DRAW ANYTHING. REALLY. Dragons. Puppies. T. rex. Unicorns. Race cars. Ice cream. Squigglings turns every one of them into a few easy lines a 5-year-old can copy, one line at a time, in red, on top of what they have already drawn. Follow the red and the picture appears. No talent required, just a pencil. 3,900+ DRAWINGS, AND THE NEXT LINE IS ALWAYS OBVIOUS Most "how to draw" books jump from a circle to a finished lion. Squigglings never jumps. Each step adds one simple shape, written in words a 7-year-old reads on their own: "Draw a big round tummy under the head." Big shapes first, details last, 10 to 14 steps, about ten minutes, and a drawing they are proud of at the end. WATCH IT DRAW ITSELF Tap any drawing and it draws itself before their eyes, then colours itself in. Kids see exactly where they are heading before they pick up a pencil, so they start confident and stay confident. TICK OFF EVERY STEP A hand-drawn squiggle rail fills with blue ink as they go. Each step earns a green check, and the rail does a loop-the-loop when the picture is done. Progress is saved, so a drawing can wait until tomorrow. A NEW SQUIGGLE EVERY DAY Today's Squiggle is a fresh drawing every morning, the same one for everybody, so friends, cousins and whole classrooms can draw it together and compare. MADE FOR SMALL HANDS Big buttons. Large text. Short sentences. Medium and Advanced levels, so a 5-year-old and a 10-year-old both find their fit. Works with VoiceOver, large type and Reduce Motion. SAVE, SHARE, PRINT Star the favourites. Share the finished picture with grandparents. Print a light outline to trace and colour on real paper. QUIET BY DESIGN • Works fully offline: nothing to download later, nothing that needs Wi-Fi • No ads, no accounts, no purchases, no tracking, ever • Made for small hands: big buttons, short sentences, Medium and Advanced levels • No notifications nagging anyone • Our privacy label says "Data Not Collected", and it means it WHAT'S INSIDE Animals: dog, cat, bunny, fox, lion, panda, owl, shark, dolphin, axolotl, T. rex, stegosaurus, dragon, baby dragon, unicorn, pegasus and hundreds more. Vehicles: car, race car, monster truck, fire truck, police car, train, rocket, airplane, submarine. Food: cupcake, pizza, ice cream, donut, taco. Plus robots, castles, people, holidays, sports, nature, letters, numbers and shapes, sorted into categories with a search box on top, and ordered by what kids love most. WHO IT'S FOR Ages 5 and up (younger with a helper beside them). Parents who want screen time that ends with paper and crayons. Teachers who need a five-minute warm-up the whole class can follow. Anyone who ever said "I can't draw". Squigglings is from the makers of squigglings.com, where every drawing is also free to print. Draw something today.

Screenshots

Tiny Paint Studio4 screens
Squigglings4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Squigglings at every 10 days against Tiny Paint Studio's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tiny Paint Studio ships an update every 2 months, Squigglings every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Tiny Paint Studio versus Squigglings: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny Paint StudioSquigglings
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB121 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTimor LeidermanClick Clack Labs LLC

In-app purchases

None

Tiny Paint Studio

No in-app purchases

None

Squigglings

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tiny Paint Studio free?
Tiny Paint Studio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Squigglings free?
Squigglings is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tiny Paint Studio or Squigglings have ads?
Neither Tiny Paint Studio nor Squigglings shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tiny Paint Studio or Squigglings?
Tiny Paint Studio ships an update every 2 months, and Squigglings every 10 days. Most recently, Tiny Paint Studio was updated on September 30, 2026 and Squigglings on October 19, 2026.

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