Coloring in DoodlePlot: tap-to-fill, the brush, and the bloom
Every picture in DoodlePlot can be colored on screen. It's designed to be impossible to get wrong: tap an area and it fills instantly, or paint with a brush that can't cross the lines. Tap Done and the finished picture blooms to life.
Coloring works fully offline and doesn't need an account.
You'll need
- DoodlePlot on a phone or tablet
- A finger, stylus or Apple Pencil
Open a picture in Color
Pick any picture from a pack or from My outlines, then choose Color from the ways to play.
Tap to fill
Choose a crayon from the palette and tap an empty area. It floods with color instantly. Tap another area, and another — each closed shape fills on its own.
- Tap a filled area with a new crayon to change its color.
- If a shape has a tiny gap in its outline, the fill would leak — DoodlePlot stops it and suggests the Brush instead.
Paint with the brush
Switch to Brush for shading and texture, and pick a tip size. The brush is clipped to the shape you start in, so it stays inside the lines no matter how wild the strokes get. Erase works the same way.
- With an Apple Pencil, a faint ring shows where the brush will land before it touches.
Undo and redo
Use undo to step back through fills and strokes as far as you like, and redo to bring them back. Start over clears the whole picture (it asks first).
Tap Done and watch it bloom
Tap Done. The picture blooms to life — a warm glow, a little pop and a few sparkles — and it's saved to the gallery. Finishing a pack picture for the first time earns a sticker for the album. From here you can share it or print it.
Built for every kid
- The palette is color-blind safe, and with Differentiate Without Color turned on each crayon gets its own texture as well as its hue.
- "Say color names aloud" (Settings, iPhone and iPad) speaks each color as it's picked — handy for pre-readers learning their colors. "Read buttons aloud" does the same for tools like Fill and Brush.
- Coloring works with VoiceOver: swipe through the areas and double-tap one to fill it with the chosen color.
- With Reduce Motion on, the finishing bloom is calmer — no sparkles.
Paper too
Prefer real crayons? Tap Print on any picture to print it blank and color it by hand — see the printing guide.