Color&Draw debuts in the Chrome Web Store

Tipitap was selected by the Chrome Web Store team as a development partner. Along with 9 other firms – Amazon, NY Times, EA, Gilt, Sports Illustrated - Tipitap is featured on the Chrome Web Store.

“The web has become an incredibly powerful platform for innovation, allowing users to do much more online than they ever imagined,” said Sundar Pichai, VP of product management for Google Chrome. “The Chrome Web Store showcases the power of the open web and we’re excited to have Tipitap as a part of it.”

Color&Draw iPad edition receives highest honors

CTR's Editor's Choice Award are given to only the highest quality children’s products in the interactive media category. These are “no fail” products, worthy of their cost, and able to keep children engaged for days at a time.

Finger Painting with Pixels

“For ages 4 to 6, Color&Draw for Kids ($0.99, Tipitap Apps) does a noble job trying to replicate the traditional coloring book. There is no fill option — that would be cheating — and you can start with a blank page, or pick one of 50 line drawings. Parental options let you make the job easier, by letting a child color over the lines, for example.”

A Little About Tipitap

Tipitap publishes bestselling iPhone, iPad, Android and Google Chrome apps for young learners. We strive to unleash the potential of the multiple technologies that converge on these platforms with touch screens, rich media, interconnectivity and much more, to educate and entertain children—from babies and toddlers to pre-kindergarten and all the way up to 1st grade. Our products weave together fun with fundamental educational concepts into effective learning experiences.

Technological devices hold a strong deep-rooted attraction and fascination over children. They naturally gravitate towards smart-phones, tablets and computers focusing their curiosity while controlling the processes of discovery and learning. A child's curiosity for learning knows no bounds.

Tipitap helps children develop their cognitive, social and motor abilities. Young children feel a sense of emotional satisfaction when they are engaged in learning experiences with our products. Friedrich Froebel, the father of kindergarten, recognized that this satisfaction comes from the control children have over the tools they use and the autonomy they have in the decisions they make. Deciding what to do with a Tipitap app is important to the development of the whole child and may be the first opportunity children have to make independent choices and decisions.

At Tipitap, we make available a wide range of interactive apps that explore the world of nature, music, art, math, reading, foreign languages and more by combining images, music text, sound, touch (or mouse clicks) in a seamless experience of fun and learning.

Our apps are designed from the ground up with the following principles in mind:

Learning: We endeavor to include carefully crafted, curated learning opportunities within all our apps. Every single one of our apps seeks to educate and expand the world of our young audience.

Age appropriate: Tipitap apps are built specifically to perform for one of three age groups. Our Toddler series provides simple, fun and enriching experiences for the youngest kids. Our Pre-K and K3+ apps allow gradual learning of skills and basic literacies.

Design and simplicity: Sometimes less is more. With small children, simplicity and selection are essential. Young children are easily confused and overwhelmed by too many choices. We carefully curate and design our apps to target precise age groups. And we we make the most of the technology to gradually (and automatically) introduce them to new content.

Autonomy: We seek to stimulate the early learner’s autonomy. We enable them to explore and act by themselves. The magic of touch technology in small devices like the iPod/iPhone and Android phones allows young children to handle the devices themselves and to master their use very early on.

Connecting with the world: At Tipitap we believe technology is a means to an end. We strive to build apps that help children explore and learn about their social and world. Whenever possible we provide ways for our early learners to share their progress and communicate with their loved ones.

Old forms, new forms: We explore the potential of traditional educational forms and transform them into new media digital creations without turning them into video games, sequential concept presentations or mindless tapping activities. Nothing is more rewarding and stimulating than learning something new in a new way. Like Einstein said, “You must learn to see the world anew.”

Beyond TV: Tipitap apps avoid becoming an extension of the world of TV. We know kids spend too much time already watching TV, so we have avoided branded products and characters in our apps, seeking instead to create our own original and quality art from the best illustrators.

Our qualifications: Although we are parents of young children too, with our fare share of parenting  experience—with joys and excitement as well as worry and anxiety—we are professionals with formal academic training. We understand the artistic, academic and technological aspects of this adventure.

Our award-winning products and our track record demonstrate our core competency every day to seasoned industry professionals as well as parents who witness our performance and results.

Tipitap believes that technology is an enabler—a springboard—for a larger world that demands new skills. Our objective is to create apps that are fun and not just mechanical drills and verbatim facts.

We overflow with pride as we see children gain autonomy, practice and acquire new skills, learn to read, write, add, draw, dance and sing.

We can’t wait to see what Tipitap kids will learn next.