Support

1. Open the App on the iPhone
2. The canvas is already on screen — there is no menu to go through
3. Tap a color from the palette
4. Drag a finger across the canvas to draw

There is no sign-in, no character to navigate, no level to unlock. The first tap on the screen produces a line.

Drawings are saved automatically on the iPhone. When your child closes the App and opens it again, their previous drawings are still there in the gallery. There is no "Save" button to push and nothing for the child to remember to do.

Saved drawings live inside the App's sandbox on the iPhone. They are not visible from the Photos app or from any cloud service — they stay private to the App.

Color Bud does not include a built-in sharing flow because we deliberately keep the App offline and account-free. The simplest way to share a drawing is:

1. Open Color Bud and load the drawing on the canvas
2. Take an iOS screenshot — press the Side button and the Volume Up button at the same time
3. The screenshot is saved to the iOS Photos app
4. From Photos, you (the parent) can share it through any channel you use: Messages, Mail, WhatsApp, AirDrop, etc.

This is a deliberate design choice: we want the parent to be the one deciding what gets sent to other people, not the child.

1. Open the gallery inside the App
2. Long-press the drawing you want to remove (or swipe it, depending on your iOS version)
3. Tap Delete and confirm

Deleted drawings cannot be recovered — there is no cloud copy and no trash bin.

The quickest way is to delete the App and reinstall it from the App Store. Uninstalling Color Bud removes every saved drawing and resets every preference to the default state. This is irreversible.

Yes, completely free. Color Bud has no In-App Purchases, no subscriptions, no "premium" tier, no ads, no rewarded videos, no upsells, no email capture. Every feature is unlocked from the first tap. You will never see a payment prompt inside the App.

Color Bud is designed for children aged 3 to 6. Older children can of course use it too, but the interface, tap targets, and color palette were specifically tuned for the motor and cognitive abilities of preschoolers. The App is rated 4+ on the App Store.

No. Color Bud collects no personal information at all. No name, no age, no email, no analytics, no telemetry, no device identifier, no behavioral data. The App does not even know how often it is used. See our Privacy Policy for the full statement.

No. The App makes no network requests of its own. After you download it from the App Store, it works fully offline. You can put the iPhone in airplane mode and your child can keep drawing — there is no difference.

No advertising of any kind. No banner ads, no interstitial ads, no rewarded videos, no cross-promotion of other apps from the developer, no third-party ad SDK. Your child sees only their own drawings and the color palette.

Use the iOS Screen Time feature, which is built into every iPhone:

1. Open the Settings app on the iPhone
2. Tap Screen Time
3. Tap App Limits → Add Limit
4. Select Color Bud from the app list (or pick the "Creativity" category)
5. Set the daily time limit you want and tap Add

When the limit is reached, iOS will block the App until the next day, no matter how much the child taps. Apple's official guide: support.apple.com/en-us/108806.

Use the iOS Guided Access feature. It locks the iPhone to a single app until you (the parent) enter your passcode.

1. Open Settings → Accessibility → Guided Access
2. Turn it on and set a passcode
3. Open the Color Bud app on the iPhone
4. Triple-click the Side button (or Home button on older iPhones) to start a Guided Access session
5. Tap Start

Now the iPhone is locked to Color Bud until you triple-click again and enter the passcode. Apple's guide: support.apple.com/en-us/111795.

No. Color Bud requests no system permissions at all. It does not access the camera, microphone, Photos library, location, contacts, Bluetooth, local network, HealthKit, or notifications. The only thing the App interacts with is the touch input on the canvas.

Inside Color Bud there is nothing harmful to tap — no external links presented to the child, no purchase prompts, no chat, no comments, no other users. The worst-case scenario is the child draws over a previous drawing, in which case the undo button restores it.

No. Every drawing your child creates lives exclusively on the iPhone. We have no backend, no cloud storage, and no way to access drawings. If you uninstall the App, all drawings are erased with it. See our Privacy Policy.

No. Color Bud does not call any AI service (no OpenAI, no Anthropic, no Google AI, no on-device LLM). The App is plain coloring — what you draw is exactly what shows up on the canvas, with no transformation, no recognition, and no suggestions.

That is deliberate. Many kids' apps add characters, jingles, and animations specifically to maximize engagement and keep the child glued to the screen. Color Bud takes the opposite approach: it is designed to be a quiet, calm activity that the child can leave whenever they want. The point is the drawing itself, not the App.

The App is in English at launch, but because there is barely any text on screen (the interface is mostly icons and color swatches) it is usable by children regardless of their family's language. We may add localized labels in a future version if parents request it.

Color Bud requires iOS 26.0 or later and is compatible with iPhone only. There is no iPad-optimized version yet. The App runs in portrait orientation.

Color Bud is currently iPhone-only. We may evaluate an iPad version in the future — drawing apps benefit greatly from a larger screen — but there is no committed timeline.

Email christian@irack.mx and include:

• iPhone model and iOS version
• App version (Settings → General → iPhone Storage → Color Bud, or check the App Store)
• Steps to reproduce the issue (what your child was doing when it happened)
• A screenshot or screen recording, if the issue is visible

Yes — we love hearing ideas, especially from parents who are watching their child use the App. Email christian@irack.mx with your proposal. We review every suggestion.

Email the same address: christian@irack.mx. The mailbox is monitored personally by the developer (a real human, not a support bot) and replies typically arrive within 48 business hours. We are happy to answer any question about how Color Bud handles — or, more accurately, does not handle — your child's data.