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REVIEW
Halloween - How to Draw is a single-occasion tracing app dressed for October.
A free kids' drawing tutorial built around pumpkins, ghosts, and witches. Useful for one weekend a year, forgettable the other fifty-one.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Halloween - How to draw☠️
YURI SHILIN
OUR SCORE
4.8
SAMSUNG GALAXY
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
There is a whole subgenre of Galaxy Store kids’ apps that exist to fill a specific weekend, and Halloween - How to Draw is one of them. Open it in mid-October and it is exactly what a parent in a costume-shop queue might want on a child’s tablet: a guided tracing exercise that produces a recognisable pumpkin in under a minute and asks for nothing in return except the occasional ad-watch.
The tracing model is honest about what it is. The child does not learn to draw; the child learns to copy a sequence of pre-drawn strokes and end up with a coloured shape that looks like a witch hat. That distinction matters, because a parent expecting an art-education app will be disappointed, and a parent expecting a five-minute distraction will not.
What sinks the score is calendar dependence. The app’s entire library is Halloween, which means eleven months of the year it sits unused on a home screen waiting for autumn to come back. For a free download the cost is only attention, but attention is the scarce thing on a child’s device, and there are kids’ drawing apps with year-round scope competing for the same slot.
It teaches a child to copy a pumpkin, not to draw one — and only in October.
FEATURES
Halloween - How to Draw is a step-by-step tracing app for children, organised entirely around Halloween iconography: jack-o'-lanterns, ghosts, witches, bats, candy buckets, haunted houses. Each lesson breaks a finished drawing into a sequence of simple shapes the child reproduces line by line on a touchscreen canvas.
The interaction model is the standard one for this whole shelf of Galaxy Store kids' drawing apps. Pick a subject from a grid of thumbnails, watch a stroke appear, copy it, advance to the next. Colour fills happen at the end. There is no freehand mode, no save-to-gallery worth talking about, no sharing flow — just the tutorial loop.
It is free, ad-supported, and offline-capable. The developer, Yuri Shilin, ships a small catalogue of seasonally-themed how-to-draw apps in this same template; the Halloween edition is the one that earns its keep for roughly six weeks a year.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
For its narrow brief, the app works. The step decomposition is genuinely simple enough for a five-year-old to follow, the touch targets are forgiving, and the Halloween art style lands in the friendly-spooky register parents actually want for a kids' app rather than the gory one.
Running offline matters here more than the category gives it credit for. A waiting room, a long car ride, a power-cut Halloween evening — the app loads and runs without a sign-in or a network round-trip, which is the bar for any app a child uses unsupervised for ten minutes.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The seasonal scope is the whole problem. Once October passes, there is no reason to open the app, and a child who outgrows the tracing format outgrows it permanently. There is no progression, no skill ladder into freehand drawing, no export of finished work into something a parent can keep.
Ad placement in this corner of the Galaxy Store is rarely gentle, and a kids' app showing interstitials between lessons is the kind of thing that ends a session faster than the child does. The art assets, while pleasant, are reused across the developer's other seasonal titles in ways an attentive parent will notice if they install more than one.
CONCLUSION
Install it for a Halloween-week activity for a young child who likes to draw and put the tablet away when November starts. Anyone looking for a year-round kids' drawing tool should skip this entirely and pick something with a real curriculum behind it — Drawing for Kids or the broader How to Draw catalogues do the same job without the seasonal expiry date.