Sketchingo: Photo to Coloring

Ever run out of coloring pages you actually want to color? Sketchingo makes new ones from your own photos.

Point your camera at anything. A favorite toy, the family dog, a flower from the garden, a face. Sketchingo turns it into clean black line art in about ten seconds. Color it in on your phone, or print it out and reach for the crayons.


WHO IT'S FOR

If you color to unwind, you know the problem. Coloring books run out, and half the pages are things you never wanted to color anyway. Here you decide what goes on the page. Your holiday photos, your garden, your own cat.

For kids the appeal is simpler. They photograph the toy they carry everywhere and color it in a minute later. It works on anything they can point a camera at, and the buttons are big enough for small hands.


HOW IT WORKS

1. Take a photo, or pick one from your gallery.
2. Tap Generate and wait about ten seconds.
3. Color it on screen, or print it and color it by hand.


PRINT IT OUT

Not everything has to happen on a screen. Export the blank outline, print it at home, and hand it to a child with a box of crayons. Paper still wins some afternoons.

Two ways to export:

Image. The finished page, colored or still blank, saved to your gallery or shared straight from the app. Print it on an ordinary home printer and you are done.

SVG, a premium feature. The same drawing stored as vector lines rather than pixels, which means it has no fixed size. Print it on A4 or blow it up to poster size and every line stays razor sharp, with no blurring or jagged edges. Handy for a big sheet the whole table can work on, or for something you want to frame.


THE TOOLS

Fill: tap an area and it fills instantly.
Brush: paint freehand, with a size slider for detail work.
Eraser: take color back off.
Eyedropper: pick up a color you already used somewhere on the page.
Move: drag the page around when you are zoomed in.
Undo and redo: step back through everything you did.

Pinch to zoom in on the fiddly bits, then reset the view with one tap.

Outlines stay protected while you paint, so you can go right up to a line without painting over it. You can switch that off if you would rather paint freely.


COLORS

Forty ready-made colors, plus a color wheel when you want something specific. Colors you used recently stay at the front of the palette, so you are not hunting for the same shade twice.


OPTIONS BEFORE YOU GENERATE

No background: keeps the subject and drops everything behind it.
Black frame: draws a border around the page.
Protect lines: stops paint from covering the outlines.


NOTHING GETS LOST

Every page you make is saved automatically, along with how far you got coloring it. Close the app, come back tomorrow, carry on where you stopped. Or take the same page back to the clean outline and start again.


PRIVACY

No account. No sign up, no email, nothing to remember. No tracking, no analytics.

Your coloring pages stay on your phone. The only thing that leaves your device is the photo you choose to convert, because turning it into line art takes more computing power than a phone has. The details are in our privacy policy.

Making a new page needs an internet connection. Coloring does not, so you can keep going offline.