Bottom Line: Drawp Unlimited is my favorite kid-friendly drawing app. It’s open-ended with multiple options for drawing and coloring. It’s also very easy for kids to share drawings with only the approved contacts, making it a fun app for grandparents, too.
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I first reviewed Drawp Unlimited - Family Art and Messaging App in December 2013, and rated it 4 stars. Since then, it has been updated multiple times and decreased in price, making a good app even better! Moondrop Entertainment has gone all out with the most recent update, adding a private gallery to the online website, which even allows for ordering actual prints. This gives parents and grandparents even more ways to enjoy kids' art.
Drawp Unlimited is a drawing and painting app that sets the standard for all other kid-centered apps. There are over 200 different textures and colors, and they’re really fun. One option, mega pixels, looks just like kid-favorite app Minecraft, which connects gaming with drawing in a very fun way. My favorite might be hair play, which blends four colors together in a hair texture, making heads look much more realistic than the typical yellow or brown crayon.
If hair and pixels aren’t your thing, never fear. There are so many texture options, including cotton candy, crayon wax, coral crunch and rainbow ribbons, just to name a few. Each texture comes in multiple colors, and it’s also easy to change the size of the brush on the bottom toolbar, from a fine line to a broad stroke.
I think it’s most fun to start with a blank canvas, but Drawp Unlimited offers so much more. Add a canvas from the drawing screen to turn the app into a coloring book. Most of the canvases are drawn in a way that invites additions, not just coloring in, from a space ship with an empty driver’s seat to a drum set with no drummer. Draw notes on a musical staff, or take a picture and add it to the undersea scene.
One set of canvases is even designed for early learners, with every letter of the alphabet presented with a word and picture, ready to connect the dots and learn to form both upper and lowercase letters. There is also a similar set for the numbers 0-10. I also love the blank folded Christmas card, perfect for designing a family card directly in the app.
In addition to adding photos from the camera roll or by taking a picture directly in the app, write notes and record text with the picture to send a personalized message to Grandma, cousins, best friends, or anyone else connected within the app. The audio text is sent along with the email, text message or Drawp message.
It’s the sending that moves this app from fun creativity to awesome use of technology. Instead of sending drawings through the iPad’s email system, opening up the sending to anyone a child finds in the address book, child users can send only through the Drawp friends list, which can be set up by parents. I love the ability for children to share independently with the approved list of friends. This makes it easy for young children to message with grandparents and long-distance family in a safe, age-appropriate way.
My only problem with the app is that it was difficult for me to addd approved contacts to child accounts when the contacts were already listed under my own account. In order to send to others, the app requires the parent sign in (good), but once the parent signs in, adding contacts limited me to those that were not already added elsewhere in the app. I had to have my kids share the drawing to my Drawp account, from which I then could share the drawing to other family and friends, or delete all of my contacts to add them to my daughter's account. I hope this is simply a bug to work out.
Overall, Drawp Unlimited is a great app to encourage creativity with the iPad, allowing for easy sharing of drawings between users and with approved contacts (though currently only from the parent account). At just $.99, it’s a bargain for a safe and fun app!
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Heather would use Drawp to send more notes to family and friends, but her drawing is terrible. Thankfully the kids are better at drawing.
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