Comparison

Draw & Learn 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

Draw & Learn

This app helps young children learn to draw, color, and speak through interactive games and tracing activities. It features a friendly robot guide and offers over 500 pictures to explore, supporting 18 languages. Designed for ages 5 and under, it works offline and has no ads.

Highlights
  • Interactive drawing and coloring
  • Learn words and phonics
  • Over 500 traceable pictures
  • Multiple learning games
  • Offline functionality
  • Supports 18 languages
  • Parental gate
Features
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Meet Bob, the friendly robot who helps children draw, color and learn to talk! Bob greets your child from the very first screen and says every word out loud. Children trace friendly pictures, hear each word, tap the letters to hear their phonics sounds, and build first words, shapes and numbers as they play. NEW IN THIS VERSION • Puzzle, a brand-new game: put a picture back together in 4, 6 or 9 pieces, with colored stars for every piece and a cheer from Bob at the end • A Diwali pack with 16 pictures: diyas, rangoli, a Diwali lantern, a Diwali house, fairy lights, jalebi, samosas, chai, bangles, laddus, marigolds, lotus flowers and more • Grown-ups can now arrange Home: hold a picture group to move it or hide it. Choose pictures in Settings hides any group or single picture WHAT CHILDREN CAN DO • Six learning games: Puzzle, Who Is It?, Odd One Out, Spell It, 3 New Words and A or B? • Magic Tracing: follow the line with a finger, hear music notes as it fills, then spell the word letter by letter. No timer and no way to fail • Draw and trace 500+ pictures with clear, friendly guides • Hear Bob say every word and letter sound, with audio built in for offline use • Color in with brushes, stamps and bucket fill • Learn first words in 18 languages • Draw anything they like on a blank canvas • Save finished artwork to the photo library MADE FOR FAMILIES • Made for children aged 5 and under • No ads, no tracking and no account needed • Works fully offline, ideal for car journeys and flights • Adjustable difficulty that grows with your child • Grown-up areas protected by a parental gate FREE WEEK, THEN ONE SIMPLE PLAN • New families try everything free for 7 days • Then keep everything unlocked with a Monthly or Yearly subscription, or a one-off Lifetime purchase • Families who downloaded the app before version 1.3 keep everything free • A grown-up starts the free week behind the parental gate Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the free week or the current period. Manage or cancel any time in Settings > your name > Subscriptions. Privacy Policy: https://synckser.github.io/draw-and-learn-legal/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://synckser.github.io/draw-and-learn-legal/terms.html

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

Draw & Learn4 screens
Doodle Turtle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Doodle Turtle at none against Draw & Learn's 3. Doodle Turtle also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Draw & Learn sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Doodle Turtle asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Draw & Learn ships an update weekly, Doodle Turtle every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Draw & Learn versus Doodle Turtle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDraw & LearnDoodle Turtle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size208 MB57 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerroberto pires almeidaAO TANG

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Draw & Learn

Subscriptions2
  • Draw & Learn Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Draw & Learn Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Draw & Learn Lifetime$39.99
None

Doodle Turtle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Draw & Learn free?
Draw & Learn is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Doodle Turtle free?
Doodle Turtle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Draw & Learn or Doodle Turtle have ads?
Neither Draw & Learn nor Doodle Turtle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Draw & Learn or Doodle Turtle?
Draw & Learn ships an update weekly, and Doodle Turtle every 9 days. Most recently, Draw & Learn was updated on November 7, 2026 and Doodle Turtle on October 25, 2026.

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