Disney Coloring World

$20

Teaches: coloring, creativity, Disney

CTR Rating: 78%

CTR Review

This is a subscription-based coloring experience (about $20/year) that mixes a well designed set of creative tools with five dynamic sticker playgrounds, and a strong dose of Disney. Theme packs include Mickey Mouse, Beauty and the Beast, Wreck It Ralph, Cars and many princess characters. Compared to other coloring apps, this one is excellent, with a powerful set of coloring tools and the ability to undo steps and save work. You can freely scribble, paint or sketch over the black-line masters. A magic fill-in tool to reveals the original "correct" coloring. Once you finish, your character is turned into a sticker that can be placed in one of the sticker playgrounds, where a tap can launch a hidden effect, and you can zoom in or out. The Disney templates remove opportunity to make your own character. A blank page would be wonderful addition to this app. Because it's a subscription model, we suspect that there will be additional clusters of content in the future. The key question is how many Disney characters do you want to fill in and/or scribble over to merit a subscription? Once you color your character, it is turned into a sticker that is placed inside a very cool dollhouse-style world. The more you color, the more characters you can unlock. This app is free to download, but doesn't let you do anything unless it is unlocked with a temporary password which signs you up as a paid subscriber. To cancel, you have to go into your account settings. So you download a large (940 MB) app, but don't really get anything that is actually free. Rather, it should be labeled as a MCOBC "must cancel or be charged" experience.