We don’t write about 95% of the children’s drawing apps that we come across on the app stores, because they’re rubbish!

It’s easy to make a bad one, but much harder to make something creative, original and which takes advantage of the touchscreen and connected features of modern-day tablets. Still, they do exist: Gocco Doodle is the latest example.

Published by developer Smart Education, it’s an app to help children “show off your wonderful doodles all around the world”. The idea being that they choose a theme, draw a picture using “magical” brushes, and then watch it animate.

Themes include lions, cars and towns, while brushes include a rainbow, car, train tracks, rain, cloud, flowers, notes, fireworks, flame, polka dots and footprints, according to its Google Play listing.

The showing off part happens next: the app can upload children’s pictures to Smart Education, so that other kids around the world can see them within the app, and watch the animations showing how they were drawn.

Kei from Smart Education tells us that the developer checks every picture before making it available, so nothing rude or inappropriate will slip through.

Gocco Doodle is a free download for Android on the Google Play Store – an iOS version is coming later this month – although it uses an in-app purchase to get the ‘Get it all Pack’ that includes all the brushes, as well as more space to save doodles. That costs £1.99.

Read our 50 best Android apps for kids from 2013 feature.