Sapling Tangram: Kids Puzzle
Jonathan Hood Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Sapling Tangram: Kids Puzzle is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by Jonathan Hood. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated August 30, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 41 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Aug 30
- 2026 · v1.1
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About Sapling Tangram: Kids Puzzle
Sapling Tangram is a quiet digital box of pattern blocks. Kids snap colorful shapes together — triangles, rhombuses, hexagons, trapezoids, squares, and diamonds — to make pictures and patterns of their own. There is no right answer and nothing to win. Just build something beautiful, then build something new. Made for kids roughly 5–10, it is the calm, open-ended kind of play that classic wooden pattern blocks are loved for, with tidy edge snapping, easy rotation, and a gallery to keep every creation. WHAT'S INSIDE • Create — make freely with geometric pattern blocks, explore live Mirror symmetry, or turn a small design into a repeating pattern. • Puzzle — arrange pieces to match friendly shape silhouettes, with an optional harder view when kids are ready. • My Art — a private, on-device gallery that saves creations for another day. MADE THE SAPLING WAY • No ads. Ever. • No subscriptions. One optional parent-gated, one-time Puzzle Pack purchase unlocks 20 extra puzzles and three rotational mirror modes. Everything already free stays free. • No accounts, sign-in, analytics, tracking, or data collection. • Core play works offline. Purchasing and restoration are handled by the App Store. • No child-facing external links or chat. • Calm by design: no timers, scores, or "just one more" traps. Sapling Hollow Studios makes small, honest apps for kids — the kind of screen time that leaves them calmer and more creative, not wound up.
What’s new
Version 1.1 · Updated August 30, 2026
Pages now adapt cleanly when phones rotate, with every piece kept within reach. Creative tools are easier to tap, pieces spread out instead of stacking, and phone and tablet layouts are clearer throughout Create, Mirror, Repeat, and Puzzles.
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App privacy
The developer, Jonathan Hood, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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