For grown-ups

What your child collects: nothing, because we don't ask

Reyansh’s Doodle Buddy has no accounts, no logins, no uploads, no analytics, and no ads. Nothing your child does here is sent anywhere — the whole site runs inside the browser on your own device.

The one thing stored locally is a handful of preferences (whether the voice is switched on, and which speed you last chose). That lives on your device, can be cleared any time, and never leaves it. We designed it this way on purpose: the simplest way to protect children's data is to never collect any.

Finding things

There are 120 doodles, and at least two for every letter of the alphabet. The buttons across the top group them by type — animals, food, vehicles, instruments, space and mythical creatures.

The A–Z strip beside the grid jumps to a letter, which is handy if your child is learning letters as well as drawing. It scrolls on its own, so the page stays put while you hunt for a letter. Tap the same letter again to see everything, or use the Hide A–Z button to put the strip away entirely — the choice is remembered next time.

Where to start

• Ages 4–6: try the Cat, Fish, Apple or Balloon. Set the speed to Slow and turn on Show guide so a faint outline is visible the whole time.
• Ages 7+: the Bicycle, Guitar and Unicorn have more steps and reward patience. Turn the guide off — copying without it is where the real learning happens.
• Struggling with a step? Press pause and leave it on screen. There's no timer and nothing to fail.

Getting it onto paper

Screens are for watching; paper is for drawing. The practice sheets turn any doodle into one of three pages:

• Trace It — the finished doodle in light grey, to trace directly over. The gentlest starting point.
• Step Grid — every step in its own box, with an empty one at the end. This is the classic how-to-draw-book page.
• Empty Boxes — six blank boxes with a faint example. Drawing the same thing six times is how it actually sticks.

Select several doodles at once and you'll get several pages — enough for a rainy afternoon or a classroom.

How the animation works

There's no video here, and no AI running while your child watches. Every doodle is a set of drawing instructions — the same lines a person would draw, stored in the order you'd draw them.

To animate a line, the browser is told to hide it, then reveal it gradually from one end to the other. Do that to each line in order and you get a drawing that appears to draw itself. It's an old trick and a very reliable one: it costs nothing to play, works offline, and looks identical every single time.

That reliability is the point. A video-generating model asked to "draw a cat step by step" produces something different — and often something wrong — every time you ask. A child copying a wrong drawing learns a wrong drawing.

Using it in a classroom

Please do, and you don't need to ask. Put a lesson on the projector, set it to Slow, and print a Step Grid for each child. There's no licence, no per-seat cost, and no account to create for a room full of children.

Accessibility

• Every instruction is written on screen as well as read aloud.
• The read-aloud voice can be switched off, and is off-screen text either way.
• Keyboard controls: space to play or pause, ← and → to step.
• The looping animation on the home page stops for anyone whose device asks for reduced motion.

Pick a doodle Print a sheet