WeeArtists vs Doodle Turtle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WeeArtists
This app offers guided, step-by-step drawing lessons for children. It helps young artists learn to create various subjects like animals and cartoons, fostering creativity and confidence through practice.
- Step-by-step drawing tutorials
- Kid-friendly interface
- Learn drawing fundamentals
- Draw animals, cartoons, vehicles
- Encourages creativity
- New lessons added regularly
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Screen time that ends on paper. Wee Artists shows your child how to draw, one easy step at a time, and they draw along with a real pencil and paper. From "I can't draw" to "Look what I made!" HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick a drawing, from a cute cat to a dinosaur, a rocket or a unicorn 2. Watch each step appear on screen 3. Copy it onto paper and tap Next 4. Snap a photo of the finished drawing to hang it on their Art Wall 150+ STEP-BY-STEP DRAWINGS • Six worlds to explore: Animals, Faces, Food, Vehicles, Nature and Fantasy • Three levels for ages 3-12: Little Artists, Junior Drawers and Creative Kids • New drawings added every week NEW: MY ART • Art Wall: photos of your child's own paper drawings, all in one place • Artist levels and badges that celebrate every finished drawing • Daily streaks that build a creative habit FOR GROWN-UPS • Progress report: how often they draw, the skills they're practising and their favourite subjects • Then & Now: their first and latest drawings side by side • Share their Art Wall with family in one tap • Parental PIN lock and daily time limits • Works offline, perfect for car rides and flights • Kid-safe: purchases and sharing are behind a parental gate FREE TO START Try free drawings in every category. Unlock the full library with Wee Artists Premium. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Wee Artists Premium is available as a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. The yearly plan includes a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase, or when the free trial ends. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://weeartist.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://weeartist.com/privacy.html Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Doodle Turtle
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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 color with 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Doodle Turtle at none against WeeArtists's 2. Doodle Turtle also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. WeeArtists sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Doodle Turtle asks for nothing beyond the download.
WeeArtists ships an update every 3 weeks, Doodle Turtle every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WeeArtists | Doodle Turtle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sreehari Kiezhepadathil | AO TANG |
In-app purchases
WeeArtists
- Monthly Premium$4.991 Month
- Yearly Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Doodle Turtle
No in-app purchases









