Pixel Grove Coloring
The Pixel Grove Coloring app icon: a red fox asleep in a pile of fall leaves

Pixel Grove Coloring

A calm color-by-number where the forest lights up as you fill it.

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Pixel art of an autumn forest in golden afternoon light: a great oak in full gold leaf with misty grey-blue trees behind it, leaves drifting down, and a path of square tiles glowing amber, gold and cream curving past its roots
New in version 1.1

The Silver Pegasus

Our first story pack. Follow Mira through the grove's silver forest as she sets out to befriend a pegasus: twelve pictures in silver and bronze, from a moonlit lake to a ride over the grove at dawn.

Finish a picture and the next line of the story appears on its card, written to be read aloud. The first picture is free, and the other eleven come with the Grove Pass. The pack brings its own Splash lane too, a moonlit causeway across the lake.

One night, something silver crossed the moon. Mira had never seen anything fly like that.
Pixel art of a silver pegasus with a bronze mane flying across a full moon over a lake, while a girl in a red hooded cloak watches from the shore Pixel art of the girl in the red cloak kneeling to unwind a bramble from the pegasus's hind leg in a misty silver forest Pixel art of the girl riding the silver pegasus over a lake and forest at dawn
Pictures 1, 8 and 12 of the twelve.
What it is

Coloring that slows you down, in a good way

Pick a picture, match each square to its number, and watch it come to life. There's no timer and no score, and nobody is trying to sell you anything while you color.

Pixel art hedgehog curled up asleep on a bed of golden autumn leaves

No ads, ever

No ads, no pop-ups, no countdowns, and nothing collected about you. Nothing in Pixel Grove is built to trick anyone into tapping, kids included. It's a coloring app, and that's all it does.

Pixel art iron lantern glowing amber against the night

The grove lights up

Every picture starts out dark. Fill a square and it glows. Fill enough of them and the whole forest is lit. For bigger moments, splash mode lets you throw color at it.

Pixel art wooden easel on a mossy mound holding a small painting of a glowing oak under a crescent moon

Packs from real artists, on the way

New pictures come in packs, and some will be made by artists who keep their art and half of every sale. Are you an artist?

The packs

Foxes, unicorns, a silver pegasus

Every picture is drawn as pixel art for the grove: shaded, a little misty, with a warm glow somewhere in it. The Grove at Night pack is free. The Grove Pass opens all official packs, and new ones as they arrive.

  • Pixel art silver pegasus flying across a full moon over a lake, from The Silver Pegasus pack

    The Silver Pegasus

    12 pictures New

  • Pixel art owl on an oak branch under a crescent moon, from The Grove at Night pack

    The Grove at Night

    6 pictures Free

  • Pixel art white unicorn drinking from a moonlit lake under a shooting star

    Unicorns in the Grove

    6 pictures

  • Pixel art friendly ghost floating over toadstools in a foggy moonlit grove

    Pixel Grove Spooky

    10 pictures

  • Pixel art red fox sitting among fallen leaves in an autumn forest

    Pixel Grove Fall

    10 pictures

  • Pixel art tower of carved pumpkins under lanterns and a harvest moon

    Pixel Grove Halloween

    9 pictures

  • Pixel art portrait of a bay horse with a white blaze

    Horses

    7 pictures

  • Pixel art oak tree in a sunlit glade with toadstools at its roots

    The Grove

    6 pictures

  • Pixel art river winding toward a huge orange sunset between dark pines

    Calm Scenes

    9 pictures

How it works

Pick a picture, match the numbers, watch it glow

These are the real screens. Every picture comes in four sizes, from big chunky squares for a five-year-old to 200 across for a grown-up with an evening to spare.

The Pixel Grove pictures screen on a phone: the pack The Grove at Night with thumbnails of the night grove, a toadstool, a firefly and an owl, each showing how much is colored, and the four pixel sizes above
1. Pick a picture. Pictures come in packs. Choose one and choose how big the squares are.
Fox in the Leaves half finished on a phone: the left side colored in autumn oranges, the right side dark squares that each show a number, above a honey-walnut wooden palette of numbered paint blobs
2. Match the numbers. Pick a paint from the wooden palette, then fill every square with its number. Pinch to zoom in close.
Splash mode in Pixel Grove on a phone: the Golden Oak picture hangs at the far end of a leaf-strewn autumn lane with three paint splats on it, an orange ball waiting at the bottom, and a ball, balloon, fireworks and dart to choose from
3. Or throw it. In splash mode the picture stands at the end of a lane and you fling a ball, a balloon or a dart of color at it.
A finished Pixel Grove picture on a phone: a white unicorn drinking from a moonlit lake, fully colored
4. The grove lights up. No score and no timer. Just the finished picture, yours to look at.
Why we made it

A daughter-daddy project

We were on vacation, eating breakfast together, and my daughter and I couldn't quite find a coloring app that worked the way we wanted it to.

So we decided to make one, as a daughter-daddy project. She's the product manager. I write the code.

— Nathan, one half of the team

The night grove shown twice: above, fully colored, with the oak, the toadstools and the glowing path; below, as a dark board of numbered squares, waiting to be filled
The same picture finished, and before the first square on Starter, the biggest squares.
For artists and illustrators

Make a pack for the grove

A pack is at least six of your pictures, sold under your name. You set the price and keep half of every sale. Your art stays yours: no AI training, no reselling, no original files in the app.

You send finished art. I turn it into puzzles and you approve them before anything ships.

See how it works for artists Apply to make a pack