In development · for iPhone and iPad
Little shows, made for one small person.
Showling makes short, gentle animated shows to order. A grown-up asks for one. A small person watches it. That is the whole app.
How it works
Three steps, in the order a tired parent would actually do them.
Ask for a show
Pick something from a shelf of shows that already exist, or describe one in a sentence. There is no timeline, no storyboard and nothing to edit.
Look it over
Everything waits for a grown-up to approve it before it appears in the child's library. Nothing arrives unseen.
Hand it over
Child mode is a quiet, locked player showing only what was approved. No feed to fall into, and no way out without the passcode.
What Showling doesn't do
The shape of a product for small children is mostly decided by what you leave out.
- No photographs of your family. Characters are chosen and named from a set of drawn ones. We don't want pictures of your child, your home or your relatives, so we don't ask for them and can't accept them.
- No social features. No sharing between households, no profiles, no comments, no follower counts, no way for a stranger to reach a child. Not planned for later either.
- No advertising. Nothing in child mode is a sales pitch, and nothing is sold to a child. Grown-ups buy things; children watch things.
- No endless feed. A library is a finite object. It ends, which is the point — a show finishing is how you get the tablet back.
Where we're up to
Showling is being built. There is no public release yet, and no way to sign up on this page. When there is something to try, it will be announced here first.
Questions, press, partnerships or anything else: hello@showling.com.