A free picture app for children 2 to 5
Real art, under paper. One tap at a time.
One hundred real paintings, fifty cities and fifty natural wonders, each under torn paper. Every tap turns one piece into paint; the last piece says its name.
Free. Ages 2–5. No reading, no ads. No sign-in. iPhone, iPad, and Android apps are coming soon.
Swipe for Cities and Nature.
Tap the paper.Sound on: the last piece says its name.
Art
Real paintings, hung oldest first.
A hare, a wave, a tiger, four cats: one hundred real works, each one something a four-year-old can name across a room. The last piece says who made it.
Open the Art wall
Cities
Little streets. Great big cities.
Canals, trams and towers: fifty cities, from a gondola in Venice to the Eiffel Tower. Watercolor illustrations made with AI tools and chosen by hand, hung apart from the real art. The last piece says the city and its country.
Open the Cities wall
Nature
Mountains, forests, and faraway wonders.
Waterfalls, canyons and mountains: fifty places the earth made. Like the cities, they are watercolor illustrations made with AI tools and chosen by hand. The last piece says the place and its country.
Open the Nature wall
How it works
What a tap does.
Each tap turns one piece of paper into paint, with a soft wooden knock. Nothing to hurry, nothing to get wrong. At the last piece a calm voice says the name, and who made it or where it is.
At a glance
- Ages
- 2 to 5
- Price
- Free, every picture included
- Where
- Browser. Nothing to install
- Languages
- English voice: names and makers, places and countries. No reading needed
- Offline
- Needs a connection in the browser; pictures and voices you have played are saved
- Account
- None. Progress stays in this browser on this device
The Art wall
Nine thousand years of pictures, chosen for small eyes.
Animals, boats, faces and skies that a four-year-old can name. Every work is in the public domain, credited in the grown-up area exactly as its museum records it.
A few of the hundred. The wall begins with handprints on a cave wall, nine thousand years ago, and goes on in the app.
Say the name with them. Then ask what they can see.
Parents ask.
- Is the art real?
- Yes. The Art wall holds one hundred real works, every one in the public domain, hung oldest first: handprints on a cave wall from about nine thousand years ago, Egyptian geese, Hokusai, Van Gogh, Mondrian. The grown-up area credits each one exactly as its museum records it.
- Is every picture right for a small child?
- Yes. We chose each one for a child of about four: something they can name from across the room, like a wave, a hare, or a cow. Battles, hunts, nudity, and frightening scenes were left out.
- Who painted the cities and the wonders?
- They are original watercolor illustrations of real places, made with AI tools and chosen by hand. The app says so in its grown-up area and credits, and keeps them separate from the historical works.
- What does my child hear?
- A wooden tap for each piece, and at the last piece one calm English voice: the picture’s name and who made it, by the name the world knows them by (“The Milkmaid. Vermeer made it.”), or the place and its country. Nothing else: no scores, no music, no questions. You can turn the voice off.
- Anything to buy or sign into?
- No. No purchases, no ads, no accounts, and no tracking. Every picture is open from the start, and your child’s progress stays in this browser on this device.
- Does it work offline?
- In the browser it needs a connection to open; pictures and voices your child has played are saved, so they come back quickly. You can add it to your home screen from the browser’s Share or menu button. The iPhone, iPad, and Android apps, coming soon, play fully offline.
Start with one tap.
Lift the paper here, or open the whole museum.
Free, with nothing to buy. No sign-in. iPhone, iPad, and Android apps are coming soon.
