DrawAlong

The drawing lesson
kids ask for again.

DrawAlong shows one line at a time, your students draw it on the class iPads, and every picture comes out looking like the thing it was meant to be. A game to them and a real drawing lesson to you: 97 subjects, one teacher account, no student logins.

Set up your class
4.9 · Used by 10,000+ kids aged 4-8Nothing collected about students · no installs

How it works, start to finish

You hold the only account. Set a task, put the QR code on the board, and your class scans it and taps their names. Then the drawings land on your screen, one by one, as each child finishes. Here is the whole thing.

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What do your students call you?

It goes on the screen your class sees.

Continue

About two minutes, start to finish. Nothing collected about a child beyond a first name.

Set up your class

Fun for them. A real lesson for you.

Children think they are playing. They are learning to look at a shape, break it into lines, and follow steps in order until something appears.

  • It feels like a game

    Pip, the guide, reads each step out loud. A tap reveals the next line, every finished picture goes up on the class wall, and a drawing competition is one switch away. Children ask for it.

  • It happens live, in the room

    Each child draws on their own iPad while you watch the drawings land on your screen, by name, as they finish. Set one task for everyone or a theme they choose from.

  • It teaches, quietly

    Shapes, proportion, sequencing and following instructions, one subject at a time. A child who "cannot draw" ends the lesson with a T-rex that looks like a T-rex.

What you can use this week

For the days you want paper instead of iPads. The printable packs and the guided drawings are free, need no account, and work with a photocopier and a pencil.

  • Wet-weather lunch

    Twenty-five children inside, forty minutes, no plan. Put a pack on the printer or a drawing on the board and everyone has something to do that is not a screen or a scream.

  • Early finishers

    A tray of coloring sheets and step-by-step guides that a child can pick up alone and finish alone, at their own level, without asking you a single question.

  • Relief and sub days

    A folder you leave behind that needs no login, no account and no explaining. Print it in the morning and it runs itself.

All packs and single sheets

Nothing to hand over

The safest student data is the kind that was never collected. A child in a DrawAlong class is a first name or a nickname and a mascot picture, chosen in the room.

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  • No student emails

    Children never type an address, because they never sign up.

  • No passwords

    Nothing for a child to forget or a teacher to reset.

  • No photos or birthdays

    A mascot avatar and a display name, and that is the whole profile.

  • No ads, ever

    No advertising, no tracking for advertising, no third-party ad code.

  • No cookie banner

    Analytics are cookieless and anonymous, so there is nothing to consent to.

  • Nothing sold or shared

    There is no student data to sell, and we would not sell it if there were.

Questions teachers ask

Can I use DrawAlong with my class right now?

Yes. Set up your class in about two minutes, put the QR code on the board, and your students are drawing. Every guided drawing and printable pack on the site is free as well, with no account needed at all.

Will students need accounts or email addresses?

No. That is the whole design of the classroom version: the teacher holds the only account, students scan a QR code on the board and pick their name from a list. No student email, no password, no login to reset on a Monday morning.

What data do you collect about students?

None. A student is a display name and a mascot picture chosen in class - no email, no birthday, no photo, no real name required. There is nothing in a DrawAlong classroom to hand over, export or breach.

What does it cost?

Nothing, for now, and nothing ever for early classes. The classroom will launch at $4.99 a month; a teacher who sets up a class before then keeps it free for good. The printable packs and the guided drawings are free for everyone regardless.

What devices does it need?

Anything with a browser - class iPads, Chromebooks, a laptop on the whiteboard. There is nothing to install and nothing for IT to approve before you can try it. A touch screen is nicer to draw on than a mouse, but both work.

What do students actually learn?

How to look at something and break it into simple shapes, how to follow a sequence of steps, and that a picture is built up rather than produced in one go. Underneath that: pencil control, proportion, and the confidence that comes from finishing a drawing that looks like the thing.

Is the classroom version finished?

It is new, and it is in use. Set up a class, run one lesson, and tell us what got in the way. The next thing built comes from what teachers ask for.

Something not answered here? Ask us directly A teacher's question usually turns into the next thing we build.

Set a task before the bell goes

Two minutes to set up, a QR code on the board, and the drawings arrive as your class finishes them. Try it with one lesson this week and see what comes back.

Set up your class