Parents' Guide to Colors - Therapy Coloring Book

Kids -- and adults -- can color dozens of cat, mandala, and other drawings with this easy-to-use app. Brief instructions in Colors -- Therapy Coloring Book explains how the process works, although it's fairly intuitive. Kids select a palette, choose colors, and can fill large spaces or use a marker tool for smaller details.

There are plenty of drawings to choose from, and new items are offered daily. But the actual coloring experience doesn't differ much, which may discourage some kids from utilizing the app indefinitely. Although it's free to use, there's a cost associated with some items. Certain color palettes, for instance, are locked unless kids watch a video or pay to remove ads from the app. That can be an enticing option, since ads appear fairly frequently when you click on drawings to color. Unlike the color palettes that require you to view an ad to access (which feature a small play button symbol), the drawing selections aren't marked -- so there's no way to know if clicking on one will trigger a lengthy ad appearing. Kids can end up pausing to watch things often as a result, which takes away from some of the fun. Otherwise, though, Colors – Therapy Coloring Book can be a fairly enjoyable way for kids to spend some free time that will provide more opportunities to be creative than a number of other apps might.