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REVIEW
Red Rabbit and the Grumplins is a small indie storybook with a big heart.
A free, hand-drawn picture-book app from a tiny studio that knows its audience is four years old and forgives a lot in exchange for a friendly rabbit.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Red Rabbit and the Grumplins
RED RABBIT ADVENTURES
OUR SCORE
6.8
AMAZON
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
The kids’ shelf on the Amazon Appstore is a rough neighbourhood. Most of what surfaces under Novelty for the under-sevens is an ad-laced colouring template or a free-to-start game that paywalls the second level. Against that backdrop, an unassuming free picture-book app from a studio called Red Rabbit Adventures is a small relief.
Red Rabbit and the Grumplins is exactly what its name promises — a short illustrated story about a rabbit, some Grumplins, and the small drama in between. It does not try to be a platform. It does not try to upsell. It is the kind of app a parent installs once, reads twice at bedtime, and remembers fondly long after the tablet has been outgrown.
That is a narrow thing to be. It is also, for this audience, almost the whole job.
It is the kind of app a parent installs once, reads twice at bedtime, and remembers fondly long after the tablet has been outgrown.
FEATURES
Red Rabbit and the Grumplins is a single illustrated story, sized for the Fire tablet and aimed squarely at the picture-book age band. A child taps to turn pages, the art fills the screen, and the narrative carries a small cast — Red Rabbit, the Grumplins, a problem to solve — through a fixed arc. There is no level select, no in-app purchase, no advertising, and no account.
The app is free, the file is small, and there is nothing to subscribe to. Red Rabbit Adventures has built this as a standalone story rather than a platform, which means a parent knows exactly what they are handing over when they hand the tablet to a four-year-old: one story, told once, with no upsells waiting behind the next tap.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The pricing model is honest. Free, no IAP, no ads — for the under-seven crowd this is increasingly rare on Amazon's Appstore, where the Novelty and Kids' shelves are dense with shovelware that paywalls the second chapter or runs video ads between pages. Red Rabbit does neither.
The art has a clear hand-drawn identity. This is an indie picture book made by a small team that cared about how Red Rabbit's ears sit on the page, and that care reads through even on a low-end Fire 7's screen. Kids respond to character. Red Rabbit has one.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
It is one story. Once a child has read it, the app does not have a second act — no companion tales, no colouring mode, no read-aloud audio track, no interactive page elements beyond turning the page. For most picture-book apps that is fine, but the absence of a narrator track in particular is a missed opportunity, since the format suits bedtime reading whether or not a parent is in the room.
Discovery on the Amazon Appstore for an indie title like this is also brutal. Without a sequel, a series page, or any cross-link to other Red Rabbit Adventures titles, the app lives or dies on whatever search query happened to find it. That is more an Amazon problem than a Red Rabbit one, but it caps how far the story can travel.
CONCLUSION
Install it if you have a small child and a Fire tablet, especially if you are tired of dodging in-app upsells inside what is meant to be a bedtime story. Skip it if you wanted a library — this is a single book, not a shelf. What to watch for is whether Red Rabbit Adventures ever ships a second story, because the bones of the first one are good enough to want more.