Splat uses artificial intelligence to turn your photos into coloring pages for kids

The team is in Retro, a photo sharing app For close friends and family, the company is experimenting with how generative AI can be put to more creative uses. To experiment with the latest AI technologies, the team built A new application called Splatwhich allows you to turn any image into a children’s coloring book page.

As any parent will tell you, kids love to color. Thanks to the Internet, there are a seemingly endless number of coloring book pages available to print at home.

However, many of the websites that host these pages are full of ads and other clutter, making them difficult to navigate. Other times, printable pages are only available for a small fee, which some parents are unwilling to pay, given the nature of many of the art projects kids do.

This inspired the Retro team to develop an app for printing coloring book pages at home – either from your own photos or from those it provides in kid-friendly educational categories, such as animals, space, flowers, fairy tales, robots, cars, and more.

To get started using Splat, you’ll take a photo or choose a photo from your camera roll. You can then choose the style of image you want to color in — such as cartoon, 3D movie, manga, cartoon, or comic. The app will then turn your photo using AI into an on-screen or printable page for kids to color.

Instead of requiring a tedious registration process, the app will walk you through the customization options the first time you start creating. Here you will be asked to choose your favorite app icon and select the different categories that your child likes. You can also choose whether you want to let kids color the picture as a printable page or on screen (which is great when kids are bored, but you don’t want them to get distracted by the TV or game).

You can try one of the produced AI projects to get familiar with the application. Then it costs $4.99 per week or $49.99 per year to keep creating new images. The weekly option provides 25 pages per week, and the annual option provides 500 pages per year. The option to purchase or access settings is blocked from younger children by a pop-up window that requires the parents’ birth year.

In brief tests, the app worked as promised, and creation time was short, allowing you to quickly go from idea to printed art, ready for coloring, clipping, or whatever else your child wants to do.

Splat is one of many experiments that use generative AI to help inspire creativity and imagination in children in new ways. Other offers, Stickerbox Printed posters generated by artificial intelligence for coloring, while Casio also launched A fluffy robotic pet called Moflin He uses artificial intelligence to develop his character over time.

Splat is available on Splat is available on iOS and Android.