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Little Grove is live — a gentle animal world for little ones

September 25, 2026 · The Airus Solutions team

Our fourteenth app is our first for the very youngest. Little Grove: Animal Play is on the App Store — a calm 3D world for children ages 2–5 and the grown-ups beside them. It opens on a sunlit playground with Sunny the lion, and the only instruction a toddler needs: touch a toy to play, drag to look around.

Most apps aimed at small children are the opposite of calm — loud, cluttered, and built to keep a two-year-old tapping. We wanted the reverse: soft edges, unhurried pacing, and nothing on screen that punishes a small finger for exploring.

Little Grove playground with Sunny the lion Little Grove pretend hospital scene
Start free in the playground with Sunny; pretend-play unlocks places like the hospital.

A little friend to start

Sunny the lion, the playground, and every game and story are free. A single one-time purchase unlocks four more places to pretend in — a school, hospital, fire station and airport — plus eleven more animal companions: a bear, bunny, fox, elephant, panda, turtle, penguin, puppy, kitten, giraffe and koala. Every animal is fully 3D, ready to be touched, painted and played with. There is no subscription, and if you unlock the animals, the places are included in the same purchase.

Built for parents to trust

Little Grove has no child accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking, no social features, and no developer server. Caregiver preferences, paintings and optional voice recordings stay on the device. Everything a grown-up shouldn't hand to a toddler — purchases, external links, settings, microphone recording, data reset — sits behind a grown-up gate. The details are in the dedicated Little Grove Children's Privacy Policy.

An app for a two-year-old should feel like handing them a soft toy, not a slot machine.

Ten ways to play

Beyond free play, Little Grove has gentle, open-ended activities — pretend visits, counting, painting and simple stories — designed to be explored, not "won." There are no timers, no scores, and no fail states; a child can wander the grove and its places at their own pace.

Try Little Grove: Animal PlayFree to start, no ads — on the App Store.

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