🧸 Early learning (ages 2-6) · 🎨 Art, music and story makers · 🎬 Video, animation, audio and streaming
Toontastic 3D
By Google. Visit Toontastic 3D
Warning: read this before you buy or sign up. Checked 2026-10-24.
A free Google storytelling app where young kids drew characters, moved them around 3D scenes with a finger, and recorded their voices to make a cartoon with a beginning, middle and end. Google appears to have abandoned it: the website now redirects to google.com, the iOS app was pulled in 2022 per Wikipedia, and the Android listing still installs but was last updated in November 2017.
Our take: Skip it; for young kids' animation today, Stop Motion Studio or ScratchJr are maintained choices.
| Ages it suits | about 5-12 |
|---|---|
| What its terms say about age | Not stated on any page that still loads; the app's own site and terms are gone. (terms) |
| Price | Free. Free (Oct 2026), Android only, unsupported since 2017. |
| Works on | Android |
| Account | No account needed |
| Ads | None |
| In-app purchases | None |
| The AI in it | No AI. |
What's good
- Was a gentle story-structure tool for young kids
- No ads or purchases
Watch for
- Abandoned: no updates since November 2017
- Removed from iOS; website gone
- May break on new Android versions with no fix coming
Data and privacy
Not stated; the product's privacy page no longer loads. Read the privacy policy.
Does it work?
No studies found.
In the Big Index
- The maker in the who's who: Google
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Where these facts come from
- https://toontastic.withgoogle.com/
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.toontastic
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toontastic_3D
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