For parents
A calm place for your child to draw
Sketchling is designed for children drawing with a grown-up nearby. Here's exactly how it protects them — and what stays in your hands.
The grown-up check
Settings, the grown-ups corner, account deletion, sharing and any link that leaves the app sit behind a grown-up check: a maths question written in words, with a short lockout after wrong answers. Children see a friendly “ask a grown-up” screen instead.
Before a child starts, onboarding asks a grown-up to confirm permission (“A quick check for grown-ups”).
What Sketchling stores
- Account
- A random account id; an email and password only if you choose to save the account.
- Child profiles
- Nickname, age, avatar and a few onboarding answers — up to 5 profiles.
- Progress
- Lessons done, levels, skills and collections, synced between your devices.
- Drawings
- Photos of paper drawings and on-screen drawings in the private journal.
- Optional
- Voice answers to a survey, feedback messages and usage analytics — only if a grown-up chooses.
Never collected: precise or approximate location, contacts, your photo gallery, advertising ID.
Sharing with family
A grown-up can create a private link to a drawing so grandparents can cheer. The child's name isn't shown; family members leave a badge, not free text. Stop sharing at any time and the link and its badges are deleted.
About screen time
Most of a Sketchling session is spent looking at paper, not the screen. Lessons are short, there are no autoplay loops or endless feeds, and the app is happy for your child to close it and keep drawing.
What you can do at any time
- See and correct your child's data in Profiles, the Journal and the grown-ups corner.
- Delete a single drawing, a profile, or the whole account.
- Turn usage analytics or reminders on or off.
- Ask us for a copy of your data, or anything else, at sketchling@hinayurilabs.com.