Colour by number
Every region numbered, with the color key printed at the foot of the page. Hand it over with a tin of pencils and it holds a table for an hour.
Easy / medium / hard — colors
52 styles · 6 activity sheets · iOS & Android
Lineora redraws any photo in seconds — a clean coloring-book outline, a charcoal study, a woodblock print, an origami sculpt. 52 styles, plus printable mazes, jigsaws and color-by-number made from the same picture. No subscription: you buy credits and they never expire.
One photograph, twenty of the 52 styles. See them all ↓
52 styles · 5 families
Every preview below is the same photograph, redrawn. Not swatches, not drawings of what a style is like — the real thing each one made, which is the only fair way to compare 52 of them.
Outlines with nothing filled in, drawn to be printed and colored. The eleven differ in how much of the photo they keep — Minimalist throws away everything but the shapes, Detailed keeps the brickwork.
Coloring Book
Clean, balanced lines
Detailed
Fine, intricate lines
Simple
Chunky, less clutter
Expressive
Bold confident strokes
Minimalist
Sparse, essential lines
Manga
Anime-style line art
Mandala
Symmetric pattern halo
Kawaii
Cute rounded outlines
Stained Glass
Leaded pane segments
Doodle Art
Pattern-filled sections
One Line
Single unbroken stroke
Monochrome media, each with the grain of the real thing: graphite that smudges, biro that loops, dots that build tone. Best on faces and on anything with strong light.
Pencil
Soft graphite shading
Charcoal
Smudgy, dramatic tones
Crosshatch
Diagonal hatching strokes
Ballpoint
Looping biro scribbles
Ink Brush
Sumi-e brush wash
Stippling
Dense dotwork tones
Woodcut
Carved relief print
Chalkboard
White chalk on slate
Sanguine
Red chalk portrait
Blueprint
White lines on blue
Wet media. Color goes back in, edges go soft, and the photo starts behaving like something someone sat down in front of.
Watercolor
Soft washes, loose outlines
Oil Paint
Thick impasto strokes
Gouache
Flat opaque matte color
Ink Wash
Inked outlines, color blocks
Soft Pastel
Chalky blended color
Drawn-and-colored looks with a house style behind them — a woodblock studio, a webtoon, a folk painting, a tattoo parlour's flash sheet.
Storybook
Warm illustrated colors
Pencil Color
Layered colored pencil
Anime
Cel-shaded color art
Pop Art
Halftone dots, bold ink
Ukiyo-e
Japanese woodblock print
Art Nouveau
Ornamental flowing lines
Tattoo Flash
Bold old-school ink
Korean Webcomic
Soft-shaded webtoon
Shōjo Manga
Sparkles and screentone
Minhwa
Korean folk painting
Shōwa Retro
Nostalgic 80s print
The photo rebuilt out of something else entirely: folded paper, plastic bricks, thread, pixels, neon tube. These are the ones people send to each other.
Brick Toy
Studded minifigure
Plush
Stitched fabric toy
Pixel Art
16-bit game sprite
Claymation
Stop-motion clay sculpt
Paper Cut
Layered paper craft
Sticker
Die-cut vinyl sticker
Voxel
Blocky cubic 3D
Chibi
Big-head cute cartoon
Neon
Glowing tube outlines
Embroidery
Stitched thread art
Origami
Folded paper facets
Retro Kawaii
Faded pastel cuteness
Hanji Collage
Torn mulberry paper
Four-Cut Photo
Photo booth strip
Portrait Photocard
Glossy collectible card
Every style above is in the app today. More arrive with updates.
6 activities · 3 levels each
The same picture, turned into a worksheet instead of a drawing: numbered regions to fill, pieces to cut out, a maze to solve. Made from a photo the child is actually in, which is the whole difference between this and a printable off the internet.
Every region numbered, with the color key printed at the foot of the page. Hand it over with a tin of pencils and it holds a table for an hour.
Easy / medium / hard — colors
The same idea in facets. The photo breaks into small tiles that only resolve back into the picture once enough of them are filled.
Easy / medium / hard — colors
Print it, cut along the lines, and it is a puzzle of your own afternoon. Twelve pieces for a four-year-old; forty-eight for a rainy Sunday.
Easy / medium / hard — pieces
Two near-identical copies of your photo side by side, with an exact number of planted differences between them. Nobody has seen this one before.
Easy / medium / hard — differences
A maze laid over the scene, with a start and a finish that belong to the picture rather than floating on top of it.
Three levels
Dotted guide lines to draw over — the gentlest way in for a hand still learning to hold a pencil, and the one that ends with a drawing they made.
Three levels
How it works
Anything in your camera roll — a portrait, a pet, a building, a plate of food. Keep the whole scene or cut the subject out of its background.
Any of the 52 styles, or one of the six activity sheets. Every tile in the picker shows what it does to your photo, so you're choosing from the result, not a name.
Save to Photos, send it straight to someone, print it, or bundle a set of drawings into one PDF for the printer down the road.
Real screens, not mockups. Six of them, and everything in them is one or two taps from the moment you open the app.
Choose from your library or take one there and then. The style strip sits under the canvas the whole time.
All 52 styles, grouped into five families, each tile showing what it does — not an abstract swatch.
One tap moves the picker from styles to worksheets, with the difficulty chips right underneath.
The original stays alongside the drawing, so you can see exactly what a style kept and what it threw away.
Every finished drawing carries its own actions — add color, print, save to Photos, or share from there.
Select several drawings and they become a single printable document — a coloring book of your own photos.
A few of the ways people have used it. Most users find their own.
— For kids
Their pet, their bedroom, last summer's beach. Print it flat to color in, or turn the same photo into a maze or a jigsaw when coloring has run its course.
— For artists
Use it the way figurative painters use thumbnails — get the gesture, learn the line, throw it away. Crosshatch, stipple and sanguine each read the same photo differently.
— For gifts
A wedding photo as a woodblock print, a road trip in watercolor, a grandparent's portrait in charcoal. Frame it, write on the back.
Your library, anywhere
Every sketch you make is saved to your Lineora library and synced to our servers. Switch phones, reinstall the app, or hand it down — paste your recovery code and everything comes back. No email, no password to remember, no account hand-off.
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