PennaTurn a photo into a colouring page you can print
Penna is an iPhone, iPad and Android app that turns a photo into a printable colouring page and lets you put your pages together into a colouring book you print at home.
Take a photo of your child, your dog or the whole family, pick a style, and Penna draws clean black-and-white line art, ready for A4 paper.
Free to try: 2 pages to start. No account needed.
How it works
Take or pick a photo
Use the camera or choose a photo from your library: a child, a pet, the grandparents, a favourite place.
Pick a style
Cartoon, classic colouring book or anime, from simple outlines for little hands to detailed line art.
Print, save or share
Print from your phone on A4 (or US Letter), save the page to your photos, or share it as a PDF.
A personalised colouring book starring them
Pick your pages, put them in the order you like and Penna turns them into one PDF book you print at home. Staple it, clip it into a ring binder or take the file to a print shop.
With Penna Pro you can add a cover with a title, in colour from an adventure page or in black and white from any other page.
Draw them into an adventure
Penna can draw the person in your photo into one of 24 scenes: riding a dinosaur, flying to space, diving under the sea, driving a fire engine, shooting hoops and more.
Tap Try another scene and the same person gets a new adventure, without a new photo. Scenes work with photos of one person.
Seven styles, from simple to detailed
Cartoon outlines with big shapes for small children, a classic colouring book look in three levels of detail, and two anime styles. Pick the one that suits the child who will colour it in.
Printed at home, coloured in on paper
Every page is sized for A4 and prints from your phone's own print menu to any home printer. The children colour in on paper; the phone stays with you.
Your photos stay yours
- Your photo is deleted right after processing.
- Your pages and books are saved on your phone, in Penna's Library.
- No account, no sign-up, no email address.
- Your data is never sold.
Read the details in our privacy policy.
Free to try, Penna Pro for more
| Free | Penna Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| New pages from photos and adventures | Free to try: 2 pages to start | Many more, for whole books |
| All 7 styles and all 24 adventures | Yes | Yes |
| Colouring books as one PDF, print and share | Yes | Yes |
| Book cover with a title | No | Yes |
Penna Pro is a weekly or yearly subscription. The price is shown in the app before you buy, and you can cancel at any time in your App Store or Google Play account.
Guides and ideas
How to make a personalised colouring book from your photos
Make a personalised colouring book from your own photos with Penna on iPhone, iPad or Android: turn photos into pages, export one PDF and print it at home on A4.
Printable colouring sheets made from your own photos
Make printable colouring sheets from your own photos with Penna on iPhone, iPad or Android: family, pets and days out as black-and-white pages for A4 paper.
Make your first page
Penna is free to try on iPhone, iPad and Android.
Scan this code with your phone's camera to get Penna.
Free to try: 2 pages to start. No account needed.