Welcome to Playtime!

Let's learn, draw, and play together! Pick a fun activity below and start your adventure.

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Play Games

Fun puzzles!

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Learn ABCs

Letters & Words

draw

Drawing

Color inside!

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Awards

See your stars!

Made with, and made for

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120games and stories
4-7the ages it is actually built for
0adverts, ever
20minand it gently says that's enough

How it works

Three steps, and none of them is a sales call.

  1. 01

    Make a character

    Pick a shape, a colour and a silly name. That is the whole setup and a four-year-old can do it alone.

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  2. 02

    Play a little

    Letters, numbers, drawing and stories. Twenty minutes and it says goodbye by itself.

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  3. 03

    Grown-ups look after

    A weekly note about what they found hard, in plain words, with nothing to buy at the bottom.

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What's included

Everything below is in every tier.

  • 120 activities

    Letters, counting, drawing and read-along stories, added to every month.

  • No adverts

    None. Not a banner, not a video, not a character who wants you to buy something.

  • A gentle stop

    Twenty minutes and it winds down on its own, without a countdown or a tantrum.

  • Weekly note

    What went well and what was tricky, for the grown-up, in plain language.

  • Works offline

    Downloads on wifi and plays in the car, on a plane, anywhere.

  • Up to four children

    One family, four profiles, separate progress, one price.

Features

CrayonWorld Adventures, in four parts.

child drawing

Play Games

Counting, matching and sorting, dressed up as something considerably sillier than counting, matching and sorting.

child drawing

Learn ABCs

Letter sounds and shapes, in the order schools actually teach them, with a voice that waits rather than hurries.

alphabet blocks

Drawing

A big canvas, fat crayons and no wrong answers. Everything they make is saved and can be printed.

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Awards

Little ones, for finishing a thing. No leaderboards, no streaks, and nothing that gets taken away for missing a day.

The work

Recent work, unretouched.

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kids painting
kids painting
kids painting
picture book
picture book
picture book
picture book
modelling clay
modelling clay
modelling clay
modelling clay
chalk drawing
chalk drawing
chalk drawing
chalk drawing

Pricing

Three ways in. No hidden tier.

Try it

Freeforever

Twenty activities, no card, no advert.

  • 20 activities
  • One child
  • No adverts
Start playing

Family

Most chosen
£5.99per month

Everything, for up to four children.

  • All 120 activities
  • Up to four profiles
  • Weekly grown-up note
  • Works offline
Start playing

Forever

£59one payment

Pay once, keep it until they outgrow it.

  • Everything in Family
  • No renewal, ever
  • All future activities
  • Printable certificates
Start playing

In their words

Three people who pay for this.

It stops on its own after twenty minutes and winds down instead of cutting off. Getting a four-year-old off a tablet has never been that calm before.
Hannah Mbekitwo children, 4 and 6
No adverts means no adverts. I checked properly, because everything else that says that is lying.
Greg Anselmoone child, 5
The weekly note told me she was finding 'b' and 'd' hard before her teacher did.
Farida Yusufone child, 6

Questions

The four we are asked most.

Are there really no adverts?

None at all, on any tier, including the free one. There is also nothing inside the app that a child can buy.

What ages is it for?

Built for four to seven. Younger children enjoy the drawing; older ones tend to have moved on, and we would rather say so.

Does it work without wifi?

Yes. Everything downloads over wifi and plays offline, which is mostly what it gets used for.

How does the twenty-minute limit work?

It winds the activity down and says goodbye rather than cutting off mid-game. Grown-ups can change the length or turn it off.

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A place where small children learn letters, numbers and drawing without anybody shouting about streaks.

Start today, or read everything first. Both are fine.