Poplings: Balloon Pop for Kids
iOS app by CM Collective LLC. Games · CM Collective LLC
- Store rating
- 5 / 5
- Store rating count
- 1
- Download price
- Free to download
- In-app purchases
- Unknown
- Version
- 1.0
- Listing last refreshed
- 2026-09-11
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Store description excerpt
Poplings are little creatures that hide inside balloons. Tap a balloon and it pops with a happy sound and a burst of confetti, and every so often one of them is in there, waiting to be found! There are 37 to collect. Nothing to lose, nothing to buy, and nobody to beat. I have three kids, and I couldn't find a game I actually trusted. The free ones were full of ads, asked for money, or wanted an account before a four-year-old could tap anything. So I built the one I wanted for my own children. It is free because it costs almost nothing to run: no server, no accounts, nothing collected from anyone. BUILT FOR THE WAY YOUNG CHILDREN ACTUALLY PLAY Nothing in Poplings is ever punished. A balloon your child misses simply drifts away, and the game never tells them they did anything wrong. No lives, no game-over screens, no scolding. In the no-timer Play mode there is nothing to beat, so a two-year-old mashing the screen and a six-year-old hunting the last Popling are both playing it exactly right. 37 POPLINGS TO COLLECT Every Popling is drawn by hand and has its own little sound. There is a crayon cat, a paper crown, a clay bear, and 37 in total to find. Found ones go into "My Poplings", where the empty spaces are the good kind of mystery. Nothing is timed and nothing expires, so a child can hunt for the last one for as long as it takes. Toot, the mascot, turns up in every world, drawn again in that world's own style. THREE HAND-DRAWN WORLDS Every balloon has a face, and every world is a completely different art style, drawn by hand rather than assembled from clip art. Each has its own Poplings, its own sky, and its own music of pops: - Crayon: a kid's drawing come to life on notebook paper, with wobbly outlines and scribbled-in color. - Paper Party: a construction-paper craft table, with folded balloons, glued-on googly eyes, and pennant bunting. - Squish: chunky, glossy clay-toy balloons with giant friendly eyes. TWO WAYS TO PLAY - Play: continuous, no timer, no score. The default, and where most children will spend their time. - Pop Party: an optional timed mode for slightly older kids who want a challenge. Clearing one level leads straight into the next, so a good run keeps going,with a combo chain and a list of your own best runs. The score is only ever compared to your own, on this device, and even when a run ends it never says you failed. A GROWN-UPS SECTION THAT RESPECTS YOU Behind a simple parental gate (a basic math problem) you'll find: - A play-time summary: how long today, how long this week, and what a typical visit looks like. No streaks, no rewards for playing more, and no notifications nudging your child back in. - Volume, plus a quiet mode that softens the pops and keeps the celebrations. - Vibration on or off, and reduce motion for children who find lots of movement overwhelming. - Difficulty for the Play mode: "Easy" for a child still learning to point at a screen, "Just right", or "Challenge". - An optio
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