Press kit

Dabble, in one page.

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The story

Kyle Wolf built Dabble for his own two-year-old after every "kids" drawing app the family tried buried the crayons under ads, pop-ups and mini-games. Dabble is one canvas and twelve markers, with nothing to tap by accident: the menu only opens after a 2-second hold, and the canvas flips to black so the markers glow like neon. There are no ads, no accounts and no tracking, and drawings never leave the device.

Version 1.0.5 is the first big expansion of what a toddler can make in Dabble. Seven Magic Markers turn a scribble into glitter, rainbow, pink dust, watercolor, neon, confetti or bubbles, and every sparkle lands in the same place each time a drawing is reopened, so the gallery always matches the canvas. Dabble Pro families also get a palette editor: two big sliders for hue and shade, two to sixteen colours, drag to reorder, so a child can draw with "exactly my purple".

Quick facts

Name: Dabble: Draw, Color, Create
Made by: Kyle Wolf, Kyle Wolf Design
Ages: 2–4 (App Store rating 4+)
Devices: iPad and iPhone
Price: Free. Dabble Pro is an optional monthly, yearly or lifetime purchase.
Free tier: 3 saved canvases; 2 tries of every Magic Marker, clear, delete and share
Privacy: No ads, no accounts, no analytics, no tracking. Drawings never leave the device.
Child-lock: The canvas menu opens after a 2-second hold; purchases, links and sharing sit behind a parent gate.

The seven Magic Markers

Gold Glitter

A gold line covered in white, yellow and gold sparkles; every third one is a four-point star.
Rainbow

A solid line that cycles through the whole rainbow along its length.
Pink Dust

A faint pink line with a scatter of tiny pink dust.
Watercolor

Soft, overlapping blue layers that bleed like wet paint.
Neon Glow

A near-white core inside a pink glow, like a neon tube.
Confetti

Tumbling paper rectangles and dots in five party colours.
Bubbles

Soap bubbles with a white highlight, trailing a faint blue line.