★ Free to keep. Pay only for magic.

Keep every drawing.
Watch them come to life.

A memory box for your kid’s art — not a folder of photos. Scan a whole stack in seconds and each drawing lands in the right child’s gallery, dated and labeled with their age, free forever. Pick a favorite and it can come to life too.

Download on theApp Store Join the test onGoogle Play
See how it works

✎ Built by a dad who ran out of drawer space.

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Newest drawn By year ★ Favorites
2026age 5–618 drawings
A child's felt-tip drawing of a pink axolotl wearing a crown, inside a rainbow border
Axolotl queen
March 2026★
A child's felt-tip drawing of a four-scoop ice cream with a face on every scoop
Ice cream family
February 2026
2025age 4–523 drawings
A child's drawing of a brown kangaroo, labeled "Kamgaroo" in pink pen
Kamgaroo
2025

Every drawing filed by child, by year, and by how old they were.

How it works

Three steps. Only the last one costs anything.

1

Scan the stack

Guided scanning finds the edges, straightens the page and crops it for you. Do five drawings in one go, then recycle the paper without the guilt.

Free forever
2

Keep them forever

Every drawing lands in a gallery for that child, labeled with how old they were when they made it. Search it, sort it, star the ones you love.

Free forever
3

Bring one to life

Pick a favorite and watch it become a soft little character of its own — or a short animation of it moving. The original never changes.

The only paid bit

Keeping your kid's art is free. Forever.

Not a trial. Not fifteen drawings a month. Not free until we change our minds. Scan as much as you like, for as long as you like, and it stays yours.

No subscription Nobody can lock you out of your own child's artwork, ever.
It lives on your phone Not on our servers. Backup is optional, and it goes to your Google Drive.
Take it with you Export the whole library as ordinary photo files, foldered by child, any time.
Why this one

The apps that do the magic don't remember. The ones that remember charge rent.

AI drawing toys Subscription art vaults Lively Art
Brings drawings to lifeYesSometimesYes
Keeps a real libraryNoYesYes
Free to keep your artn/aNoFree forever
Works without a subscriptionUsually notNoAlways
Art stored on your deviceNoNoYes
Export everything, any timeNoRarelyOne tap
In the box

Everything else this kids’ art app does.

A gallery per child

Each kid gets their own space. Switch between them with a tap.

Labeled by age

Every drawing shows how old they were when they made it. Watch a style grow up.

Dates that can be vague

"March 2023" or just "2023" — because nobody remembers the exact day.

Kid mode

Hand over the phone. They can browse their own gallery and change nothing.

Optional Drive backup

Off by default. When you turn it on, it goes to your Google Drive, not ours.

Download everything

Your whole library as named photo files, foldered by child, whenever you want.

Straight answers

The questions I'd ask.

If scanning is free, what's the catch?

There isn't one. Scanning, organizing, exporting and backup are free and always will be. You only pay if you choose to turn a drawing into a photo or an animation — because those cost me real money every time, and nothing else does. That's the entire business model.

Doesn't AI ruin the point of a child's drawing?

It would if it replaced it. It doesn't. The original is stored exactly as they drew it, permanently, and it's the first thing you see — the generated version sits beside it as an extra you can delete. Nothing is ever altered or overwritten. If you never tap the button, the app is simply a place your kid's art is safe.

Are you training AI on my children's drawings?

No. Nothing leaves your phone unless you tap generate or switch on backup. If you turn on backup it goes to your own Google Drive, in a private folder only this app can see. There is no Lively Art server holding your family's artwork.

What happens if the app disappears? Or if you do?

Nothing happens to your library. Lively Art runs entirely on your phone — the scanning, the galleries, the search, all of it — with no server behind it and no account to expire. There is nothing for me to switch off. If I stopped working on this tomorrow, the copy on your phone would keep running exactly as it does today, for as long as your phone does.

The only parts that need me are the two AI buttons, because those call a server. Those would stop. Your drawings wouldn't.

And if you ever want them out of the app entirely, "Download all" exports the whole library as ordinary photo files, foldered by child and named by title and date. No lock-in, no export fee, no account required — just your files, on your computer, in a format anything can open.

Will there ever be a subscription?

Not for keeping your art. That's a promise I'm making in public so you can hold me to it.

What it is

A scanner, an organizer, and a keepsake box for your kids’ art.

Most families end up with the same problem: a drawer, a folder, or a shoebox full of children’s artwork that nobody can look through and nobody can bear to throw away. Lively Art is a free kids’ art app that solves the boring half of that properly — a guided artwork scanner that straightens and crops each page, a gallery that organizes drawings by child and by year, and search so you can actually find the one you’re thinking of.

Every drawing is dated and labelled with your child’s age at the time, so the archive doubles as a record of how their style grew up. Nothing is capped, nothing expires, and there is no subscription for keeping your artwork — it all lives on your phone, and “Download all” hands the whole library back to you as ordinary photo files whenever you want it.

The optional part is the fun part. Pick a favorite drawing and Lively Art can turn it into a soft 3D character, or a short animation of it moving, using AI. Those are the only things that ever cost anything, and the original scan is never altered or replaced.

Get Lively Art.

Free to download, free to keep every drawing. On iPhone now — Android is in testing.

Download on theApp Store Join the test onGoogle Play

No subscription. No account. Nothing leaves your phone unless you choose it.