Doozla: drawing so easy a child can do it

Filed under: Design, Kids, Macintosh, Commercial

Doozla: drawing so easy a child can do it

by Todd Ritter Mar 21st 2008

Doozla is a drawing application (Mac OS X only) designed for children from Plasq, the geniuses behind Skitch and Comic Life. There are 4 main ways to use Doozla: free drawing on a plain white background, drawing on a webcam capture, drawing on one of the included background pictures, and coloring-book mode.

The interface is fullscreen and child friendly since it provides large icons and a simple feature set. There are standard tools like a color chooser, eraser, paint bucket, and ellipse tool, and clicking any of the tools triggers a jolly voice to vocalize the name of the tool or color that was chosen.

Unfortunately Doozla only saves drawings in .doozla files (not .jpgs, .gifs, etc.), so it's not very easy to share creations. However, you can print the drawing to a standard printer or to a PDF.

Doozla costs $24.95, but a 30-day trial is available.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Joe said 3:28AM on 3-22-2008

Wow, a $25 copy of Microsoft Paint. Awesome.

michael said 1:29PM on 3-22-2008

Rats. It's Mac only. You guys could have mentioned that in the article? And why is it Mac only?

It would be really awesome if DS could just put up some colored or contrasting box somewhere near the beginning of the article saying what OS's it supports. That way I don't have to be disappointed.

Todd Ritter said 2:16PM on 3-22-2008

Directly under the article title, date, and author is a category listing ("Filed under"). I put it in the Macintosh category...not Windows, or Linux.

I usually do mention (redundantly) that it is only for one OS. Sorry. I updated the article to reflect that.

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