Little Doodles

In development

Ad-free coloring & play for little hands

iOS
Android

Education (Kids)

Little Doodles is a cheerful, ad-free coloring and activity app made for babies and toddlers (ages 1 to 4). It bundles nine simple activities (coloring, colors, animal sounds, music, shapes, balloon pop and more) with no ads, no subscriptions, no accounts, and no personal data collection. Every activity works offline; when online, the app checks for updates.

Features

Coloring book: tap-to-fill flood coloring plus freehand marker across 4 categories (dinosaurs, animals, vehicles, space)
Color Explorer: tap to change the screen color and hear the color named aloud
Animal Sounds: tap an animal to hear its real sound
Music: a colorful xylophone and drums
Shape Match: drag shapes into matching holes
Balloon Pop: pop floating balloons
Peek-a-Boo: a memory-match game, flip doors to find the matching animals
Sparkle Touch: drag a finger to trail sparkles
My Drawings: an on-device gallery of saved artwork
Locked in landscape and fullscreen; high-contrast art and chunky touch targets
Every activity works offline

Third-party services

Expo EAS Update: Delivers app content updates and fixes; the update check carries the OS, the app version and a random installation ID, and no personal information

Data & privacy disclosures

Data Disclosures: Little Doodles

Submission-ready answers for both stores' privacy questionnaires. Little Doodles collects no personal information. The one thing that leaves the device is the app-update check to Expo's EAS Update service, which carries a random installation ID, the OS and app version, and (like any request) an IP address. The answers below disclose that conservatively as a device ID used for app functionality, never linked to a person and never used for tracking.

Why disclose it at all: both stores count data sent to a service provider on your behalf as "collected", even when it is pseudonymous and used only to make the app work. Declaring it is the safe reading for a Kids / Families app; answering "no data collected" while the update check runs is the kind of mismatch reviewers reject.

Key definition (both stores): information that stays only on the user's device and is never sent off the device is not considered "collected" or "shared." Little Doodles' on-device drawings and local high scores therefore do not count as collected data.

1. Apple App Store: "App Privacy"

Summary answer: Data Not Linked to You: Identifiers (Device ID), for App Functionality. (iOS is parked for now; re-check this when an iOS build is on the table.)

In App Store Connect, App Privacy: answer "Yes, we collect data", select only Identifiers: Device ID, purpose App Functionality, not linked to the user, not used for tracking.

Data type	Collected?	Linked to user?	Used to track?
Contact Info (name, email, phone, address)	No	n/a	n/a
Health & Fitness	No	n/a	n/a
Financial Info	No	n/a	n/a
Location (precise or coarse)	No	n/a	n/a
Sensitive Info	No	n/a	n/a
Contacts	No	n/a	n/a
User Content (photos, drawings, audio, etc.)	No¹	n/a	n/a
Browsing / Search History	No	n/a	n/a
Identifiers: Device ID (EAS Update random install ID)	Yes	No	No
Identifiers: User ID	No	n/a	n/a
Purchases	No	n/a	n/a
Usage Data	No	n/a	n/a
Diagnostics (crash, performance)	No	n/a	n/a
Other Data	No	n/a	n/a

¹ Drawings are saved only in the app's private on-device storage and are never collected or transmitted, so "User Content" is not collected for App Privacy purposes.

Tracking: The app does not track users (no ATT prompt required; no IDFA use).

2. Google Play: "Data safety"

Summary answer: Collected: Device or other IDs (app functionality). Shared: none.

Question	Answer
Does your app collect or share any of the required user data types?	Yes (Device or other IDs, collected only)
Is all of the user data collected by your app encrypted in transit?	Yes (the update check is HTTPS)
Do you provide a way for users to request that their data is deleted?	No account or request flow is needed: the ID is random, not tied to a person, and is replaced on reinstall; on-device drawings are removed by deleting them in-app or uninstalling

Data collected: Device or other IDs. Data shared: None (a service provider acting on our behalf is not "sharing" under Play's definition).

Data category	Collected	Shared	Ephemeral	Required/Optional	Purpose
Device or other IDs (EAS Update random installation ID)	Yes	No	No	Required	App functionality (delivering app updates)
All other categories: Location, Personal info, Financial info, Messages, Photos/Videos, Audio files, Files/Docs, Calendar, Contacts, App activity, Web history, App info & performance	No	No	n/a	n/a	n/a

Notes for the reviewer mapping:

The app has no accounts, no ads and no analytics. Its only third-party SDK that talks to a server is expo-updates (EAS Update).
Its only network request is the app-update check to Expo's EAS Update service (see the note on "Device or other IDs" below). All activities, art and sounds are bundled and work offline.
Drawings and the Balloon Pop high-score list are stored only in the app's private on-device storage (Android: app-private AsyncStorage; iOS: app sandbox) and never leave the device; this is not "collection" or "sharing."

3. Declared OS permissions (context, not "data collection")

These are install-time, non-sensitive permissions and do not, by themselves, collect user data. No sensitive runtime permissions (camera, microphone, location, contacts, photos, notifications) are requested.

Permission (Android)	Why present	User-prompted?
`INTERNET`	App-update checks (EAS Update); no other network use	No
`MODIFY_AUDIO_SETTINGS`	Sound effect / music playback (expo-audio)	No
`VIBRATE`	Haptic feedback (expo-haptics)	No

iOS requests no privacy-sensitive usage permissions (no camera/microphone/location/photos usage descriptions are included).